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    8 months ago

    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.”

    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/