comucopia 44
comucopia is incorrectly written, and should be written as "cornucopia" being its meaning: It is the cornucopia or Horn of plenty, from the latin cornu cornus: Horn and copy copiae: abundance. The Romans regarded it as symbol of prosperity, why their fruit bowls tended to be that way. The issue comes from Greek mythology: the goat Amalthea grew up Zeus child with her milk in the island of Crete, when his mother, Rea, gave her father 40 Saturn;Cronos ) Stone, wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he ate it believing that it ate his son. One day Zeus, playing with its rays, broke a Horn of Amalthea and to compensate it for granted him the power to get everything what you want to who possessed the Horn. Here was born the legend of the Horn of plenty.