Talk:Cornucopia

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Lots of suggestions for expanding this are at "What links here" Wetman 17:59, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I've removed the following para as it seems to be nothing but the opinion and conjecture of the author.

"The cornucopia                                                                                                                                                                                      WIKI! should be recognized as a timeless symbol of traditional science and thus an image of something sacred.  Dante, in his Paradiso (Canto 13) writes, “At the bright summit of that horn which swells/Due from the pole, round which the first wheel rolls”; Cervantes, in Don Quixote (Chapter 20) has the shepherd Sancho Panza say that “the mouth of the Horn is overhead and makes midnight in the line of the left arm.”  The sky is thus seen as a horn, its “summit” at the pole, and the stars turning round the central pole star allow shepherds to tell time as if the night sky were a gigantic “clock.”  René Guénon, in his essay “Light and Rain,” Symbols of Sacred Science (Sophia Perennis, 2001) 351–54, does not mention the cornucopia, but he does note the “vivifying” power of these two descending celestial influences. Since light and rain, necessary for all life on Earth, cannot easily be represented spilling out of a horn, the “fruits” of such influences on the terrestrial world are instead represented literally in the cornucopia. Representing the horn in the form of wickerwork, which allows both water and light to pass through, is also significant; but this has more to do with the symbolism of weaving, which is another subject. " ````

sampo
I think there could be some references of cornucopia like symbols from other cultures.good exampe for example would be sampo from finnish kalevala.

I would do this my self If I would know how. 25.12.2012 16:07

Removed Lady of Roses Comment
"Our Lady of the Roses has also warned against it." sounded like a proselytizing statement so i purged it. aamir malik (talk) 15:35, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

Pictures
There are some better pictures on the Italian disambiguation page: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia. In art history, these are famous images of cornucopia iconography. I would add them to this page, but don't know how. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.50.13 (talk) 09:40, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Removed Antichrist Nonsense
"Some evangelical Christians warn against wearing the symbol, or the similar Italian symbol of male fertility, saying it is actually demon-infested or unlucky, and equating it to the "little horn", a figure described in the Christian Bible sometimes considered to be the Antichrist."

Does this look like it has anything to do with the article to you? Me neither. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.117.148 (talk) 02:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Timeline of depictions
It would be nice if there was some summary of the development of the iconic imagery. Modern depictions (absurdly giant "horn" with grapes and gourds cliche) are strange and don't depict the mythological origins very literally at all. How did this very particular exaggeration develop? The article gives no sense of whether the familiar form is from ancient times (contemporary with the myths?), or since the Renaissance, or what. Did the current Giant "horn" first appear with one particular artist or work? It's not clear why this one particular bizarre representation is repeated so relentlessly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DKEdwards (talk • contribs) 18:58, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Cornucopia (god) listed at Redirects for discussion
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