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 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. " ````
