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*RELATIVES*
*FAMOUS MELISSAS*
*FICTIONAL MELISSAS*
*SONGS FOR MELISSA*
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(“melissa? more like ‘medusa’!”)
(“melissa” is a given name for a female child)
(the name comes from the greek word μέλισσα (melissa), “honey bee”, which in turn comes from μέλι (meli), “honey”)
(in hittite melit signifies “honey”)
(thus the name is the approximate greek equivalent for the hebrew name “deborah (דְּבוֹרָה), meaning “bee”)
(“melissa” also refers to the plant melissa officinalis (lamiaceae family), known as ‘lemon balm’)
(“melisa” is a common variant form, with others being ‘malissa’, ‘melesa’, ‘melessa’, ‘meliza’, ‘mellisa’, ‘melosa’, and “molissa”)
(in ‘ireland’, it is sometimes used as a feminine form of the gaelic male name maoilíosa, which means “servant of jesus”)
(according to ‘greek mythology’, perhaps reflecting ‘minoan culture’, making her the daughter of a cretan king ‘melissos’, whose -issos ending is pre-greek, ‘melissa’ was a ‘nymph’ who discovered and taught the use of ‘honey’ and from whom ‘bees’ were believed to have received their name)
(she was one of the ‘nymph nurses’ of ‘zeus’, sister to ‘amaltheia’, but rather than feeding the baby ‘milk’, ‘melissa’, appropriately for her name, fed him ‘honey’)
(or, alternatively, the bees brought ‘honey’ straight to his mouth)
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(because of her, melissa became the name of all the ‘nymphs’ who cared for the ‘patriarch god’ as a ‘baby’)
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👈👈👈☜*“FEMALE FIRST NAMES”* ☞ 👉👉👉
*beginning in ‘m’*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥