“By all odds the most interesting and attractive passenger in Jared’s company is deseret, the honeybee. … The word deseret, we are told (Ether 2:3), ‘by interpretation is a honeybee,’ the word plainly coming from the Jaredite language, since Ether (or Moroni) must interpret it. Now it is a remarkable coincidence that the word deseret, or something very close to it, enjoyed a position of ritual prominence among the founders of the classical Egyptian civilization, who associated it very closely with the symbol of the bee” (“Echoes and Evidences from Hugh Nibley,” in Echoes and Evidences in the Book of Mormon, 462–63).