As someone from outside the USA, I’m surprised a state flag looks this good. I dig it.
It’s no California Bear, but it’s up there
Looks like an nfl team logo. I hate how contemporary corporate design it is.
is utah known for beekeeping or something?
When settlers first got to Utah they imported bees and brought them in to help develop and cultivate. Since then, Utah has been known as the beehive state.
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/
