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"The Beekeeper is based on this woman who eats from the Tree of Knowledge" explains Amos. "She's all women - 'Woman.' Sophia, who was the Mother of God in the Old Testament, advises her that if she's eats from the Tree, she'll attain wisdom and open her life to new emotions and experiences, the songs captures her journey from passion to enlightenment."
-- Tori; Diva Magazine (UK), Mar 2005
"All these soldiers in Iraq are sons of mothers. These mothers get told that their sons have to sacrifice their life for our Christian beliefs, for peace, and only after making this sacrifice you live like a real Christian. Just like God sacrified his only son for the sins of humans. I think God and Jesus feel betrayed by these sort of quotes. Mary, Magdalene, and Mother Earth try to contact us women... 'We need you!' My character in the song The Beekeeper tries to contact 'Sofia', mother of God, and asks her how she can change the world. Sofia tells her that Eve asked her the same question in the past, and tells her to do the thing she is prohibited to do by her son, and that's to eat from the forbidden fruit. 'Only then will you see how I look at the world and humanity.' And so it goes that every song on the album is a forbidden fruit in each garden."
-- Tori; OOR Magazine (Dutch), Mar 2005
"My mom was very ill this year. I was having to realize that I was not willing to let her go at this time, so what do you do? Well then you go to the Beekeeper, don't you? So in the song, The Beekeeper, I travel to find the Master Beekeeper who is really sort of the Master Shaman keeping everything together within the gardens making sure that everything is pollinated, making sure that there is life, making sure that when and if there is disease that that is extricated from the garden. I wasn't guaranteed that my mother would survive, but the master Beekeeper explained that, of course she will wait. Don't you believe in infinity, don't you believe in the shape of infinity? That's the bees den. That is what the worker bees do. That is their dance. Don't you believe in the mystery of the Magdalene, don't you believe in this lineage of Demeter? The endless of cycles, of Mother and Daughter. Because where ever she awakes she is still your mother, even if it isn't on this plane, she will always be your
mother."
-- Tori; The Beekeeper Limited Edition Bonus DVD
CiaraBlaze asks: I've listened to the song The Beekeeper and it struck a very particular chord with me. It's a very haunting song. What exactly brought it on? To be more exact, what is the "story" of the song?
TORI: At first the melody would come and walk with me through the mists in North Cornwall England. I would take this melody back to the Hammond Organ, the B3. I would sit and play with this for hours. Soon I began to have to deal with my mother's heart condition and she survived a cardiac arrest in September. Because of this I began thinking about the life cycle and that dying is part of the life cycle. Even though I realized this, logically, I couldn't accept the idea of losing my mother emotionally. The song started to become clearer as the days went by and I began to realize that the Beekeeper that had taken my character in the song, to death, to plead for my mother's life, the Queen Bee in the song, little did I know that although my mother would survive and that death did pass her by it would be the last time I saw my brother when I went back to stand by my mother's bedside. So life/death has it's own rhythm and it's own rhyme. The Beekeeper really acts as a Shaman, similar to the Medicine Man in the Native American tradition. We have the Beekeeper in the Celtic tradition.
-- Tori; MSN Online Chat, Feb 22, 2005
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