CORNUCOPIA

 (Horn of Plenty) Greek The horn of the goat-NYMPH, AMALTHEA, who had tended the infant ZEUS. The horn was as large and full as that of a COw’s, and would remain forever filled with food and drink for its owners. Zeus gave the horn to the ash nymphs, ADRASTIA and IDA (1), who, along with Amalthea, had tended him when he was an infant. The cornucopia remains a symbol of plenty, generosity, hospitality, and general well being.

CORONIS Greek Daughter of Phlegyas, king of the LAPITHS of THESSALY; mother of ASCLEPIUS, with the god APOLLO.

Apollo fell in love with Coronis when he saw her bathing in a lake. Coronis seemed to accept the love of Apollo. He left a white crow to watch over her, but Coronis then fell in love with Ischus. The crow sped off to tell the news to Apollo, who struck the crow in his anger and turned its white feathers to black.

ARTEMIS, the sister of Apollo, shot her arrows at the faithless Coronis and killed her, but Apollo man-aged to snatch the infant ASCLEPIUS from the funeral pyre. The child was brought up by the god HERMES, or, some say, by CHIRON, the gentle CENTAUR, to become a god of healing and medicine.