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Tropæolum Stories: Goddess

The Goddess of Plenty owns this horn. You can see it in her pictures, as it always stands at her side, and there overflows with flowers and fruits. All that is good that grows in the earth is in the horn of the Goddess of Plenty. It is her cornucopia, for "cornucopia," you know, means "horn of plenty."

The goddess got her horn from the Naiads. They, you know, are the nymphs of the brooks and fountains, and they gave it to her. This is the story of how she got it.

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the neck and would have choked him, but Acheloüs

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