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Sculpture
Tentacle
Horn of Amalthea
Horn of plenty
Greek islands
Cornucopia
Crete
Greece
Agios Nikolaos
Nikos and Pandelis Sotiriadi
“Sotiriadi
brothers”


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The Cornucopia sculpture at Agios Nikolaos, Crete

The Cornucopia sculpture at Agios Nikolaos, Crete
Zeus, the chief god in Greek mythology, spent his infancy on the island of Crete. He was nourished by milk from a goat called Amalthea. Zeus accidentally broke off one of his nurse's horns. He blessed the horn so that it would always be full of what its owner desired. So came into being the concept of Amalthea's horn, the Cornucopia or in English the 'horn of plenty' - a symbol of abundance.
Speculation: The Minoan diet included octopus which was plentiful in the surrounding waters, and images of those creatures appear often in their art work. Is this why the sculptors, Nikos and Pandelis Sotiriadi, have made the horn of plenty resemble a tentacle?

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 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Amazing structure !!
5 years ago.
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Terrific capture!

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5 years ago.
 John FitzGerald
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Striking capture.
5 years ago.

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