Honey was offered up to the Sun by the ancient Peruvians.[728] Dr. Sparrman has described a Hottentot dance, which he calls the Bee-dance. It is in imitation of a swarm of Bees; every performer as he jumps around making a buzzing noise.[729] “To have a Bee in one’s bonnet” is a Scottish proverbial phrase about equivalent to the English, “To have a maggot in one’s head”--to be hair-brained. Kelly gives this with an additional word: “There’s a Bee in your bonnet-_case_.” In Scotland, too, it is said of a confused or stupefied man, that his “head is in the Bees.”[730] These proverbial expressions were also in vogue in England.[731] The following beautiful epigram, on a Bee inclosed in amber, is from the pen of Martial: “The Bee is inclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaëton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the Bee itself would have desired such a death. The Bee inclosed, and through the amber shown, Seems buried in the juice that was her own. So honor’d was a life in labor spent: Such might she wish to have her monument.”[732] The Septuagint has the following eulogium on the Bee in Prov. vi. 8, which is not found in the Hebrew Scriptures: “Go to the Bee, and learn how diligent she is, and what a noble work she produces, whose labors kings and private men use for their health; she is desired and honored by all, and though weak in strength, yet since she values wisdom, she prevails.”[733] In Spain Bees are in great estimation; and this is evinced by the ancient proverb: Abeja y oveja, Y piedra que traveja, Y pendola trans oreja, Y parte en la Igreja, Desea a su hija, la vieja---- The best wishes of a Spanish mother to her son are, Bees, sheep, millstones, a pen behind the ear, and a place in the church.[734] The following anecdote in the history of the Humble-bee (_Bombus_) is from the account of Josselyn of his voyages to New England, printed in 1674: “Near upon twenty years since there lived an old planter near _Blackpoint_, who on a Sunshine day about one of the clock lying upon a green bank not far from his house, charged his Son, a lad of 12 years of age, to awaken him when he had slept two hours; the old man falls asleep, and lying upon his back gaped with his mouth wide open enough for a Hawke to ---- into it; after a little while the lad sitting by spied a Humble-bee creeping out of his Father’s mouth, which taking wing flew quite out of sight, the hour as the lad guest being come to awaken his Father, he jagged him and called aloud Father, Father, it is two o’clock, but all would not rouse him, at last he sees the Humble-bee returning, who lighted upon the sleeper’s lip and walked down as the lad conceived into his belly, and presently he awaked.”[735] The following, on the different species of Humble-bees, is one of the popular rhymes of Scotland: