Bee Goddess of the Minoans
Minoan wall frescoes display a flower motif with three stamens and their gold jewelry frequently resembles the bee or includes the Hive symbol. Bees have had a very important symbolic meaning throughout history. Perhaps bees could make a type of honey that contains psychedelic compounds if the flower pollen contains it?
She is the Queen Bee and she is not from this planet. Consider:
... the property that insects respond to ultraviolet light of wavelengths too short to be found on our planet, now or at any time in the past when life was possible.
In the panspermia theory of Chandra Wickramasinghe and Fred Hoyle, or "Cosmic Ancestry," it is proposed (Evolution from Space, Chapter 8) that insects either arrived in meteorites or were brought here, due to their evolutionary history based on the fossil evidence. And the statement of Manly P. Hall about bees and Venus in the article above seems to confirm this most interesting theory. Venus, another of her names, would represent her home world of origin, not necessarily the planet Venus in our Solar System.
Bees are always found on statues of Artemis of Ephesus:
Snake Goddess of the Minoans
The Minoan Snake Goddess looks quite similar to other Goddess like Inanna or Ishtar.
Although a modern reproduction, a great combination of the Snake and Bee imagery together with the Moon and lions/griffins:
