ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.earth to Vexillology@lemmy.world · 4 months agoAs of today, March 9, this is officially the new flag of Utahkbin.earthimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageAs of today, March 9, this is officially the new flag of Utahkbin.earthThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.earth to Vexillology@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareAnubis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoWhen settlers first got to Utah they imported bees and brought them in to help develop and cultivate. Since then, Utah has been known as the beehive state.
minus-squareThe_v@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThat would be a logical reason for it but remember this is Utah… so no. Bees have weird place in Mormon lore. The creepy founder created a new name for them in the Book of Mormon “Deseret”. His successor, Brigham Young, used it as the name of country Mormons tried to establish in the west. “It represents a theocracy ruled by the church.” The bee symbolism used in sermons from the 1850s described the godly society the Saints strove to build. https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-symbolism-of-the-beehive-in-latter-day-saint-tradition/
When settlers first got to Utah they imported bees and brought them in to help develop and cultivate. Since then, Utah has been known as the beehive state.
That would be a logical reason for it but remember this is Utah… so no.
Bees have weird place in Mormon lore. The creepy founder created a new name for them in the Book of Mormon “Deseret”.
His successor, Brigham Young, used it as the name of country Mormons tried to establish in the west.
“It represents a theocracy ruled by the church.”
https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-symbolism-of-the-beehive-in-latter-day-saint-tradition/