sentences: "Fermented honey, an entheogen that was the gift of the Goddess, preceded the knowledge of wine in Aegean culture.These honey-kings consorting with the Goddess will have combined their position of authority with a sacral role, but modern interpreters would not follow Robert Graves in asserting that Melliseus "Adrasteia and Io's reputed father, is really their mother, Melissa— the goddess as Queen-bee, who annually killed her male consort."