Among the non-human donors of Kĩsêdjê song, the bee and its stinging kin occupy a place beside the mouse and the fish. As with other song-origin beings, the honey insects are understood to possess songs of their own that enter human ceremony through the mediation of those able to receive them. The bee thus belongs to the broader Kĩsêdjê principle that music is gathered from the powerful others of the forest and river rather than composed from within the village. Its association with honey ties it to seasonal abundance, reinforcing the link between the acquisition of song and the cycles of the natural world on which Kĩsêdjê ceremonial life turns.