why a horn?

[Kingaroo]

Thanks to gypsy, wraith all who offered suggestions for pagan - yule - soltice imagery. There were some great web sites you recommended!

One of them mentioned symbols like fire, sun and horn....

Horn? What's up with that? some kind of male fertility symbol? I'm thinking ram or stag? It doesn't seem to me that the circle of days is specifically male.

[woofgang]

cornucopia?

[ursula62]

cornucopia or horn of plenty - a symbol of fertility,  fecundity, or abundance.

[Kingaroo]

Having just recently looked it up, I know the cornucopia comes from a Greek myth -- the horn of the goat who suckled Zeus if I recall correctly.

Would there be enough cultural interaction between the Celtic Druidic culture and ancient Greece to have absorbed that symbol?

[Wraith]

Try this link it may help:-

http://tinyurl.com/3luau

It was also customary in celtic times to use a drinking horn and it was said that any oath sworn over the drinking horn could not be broken.

[Romeo]

What's wrong with a male fertility symbol?

[Romeo]

Actually, come to think of it, what's wrong with a male AND female fertility symbol?  Now THAT'S more like it!