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[Alexandr Korol]

a sphere or a wheel, embodying the changeability of fate. Sometimes she is shown with a blindfold, symbolizing blind chance.” The cornucopia — it is a horn in the shape of a spiral shell, and inside this horn, it is like a cup that cannot be set down, because it is a horn from which people once drank — and from it coins spill out. But when I looked and googled how this is represented, when they try to depict it simply as an image, like some kind of column — it looks so unattractive, and altogether unclear what it is. As a symbol, it doesn’t really work. Perhaps when it is together with the goddess Fortuna, and she is holding the cornucopia, then at least it is clear that it is a horn, because it is with the goddess. But to depict simply the cornucopia, it is unclear what it is — some kind of cone with little balls. It looks strange, and therefore, as a product, as an element to recommend to myself or to readers, I did not fix it down. But still, I needed to highlight it, because the system said I must in no case leave anything out. And then I asked myself the question: all right, but how should I depict Fortuna, as a symbol of fortune, what else? And what was shown to me was the wheel — that is, it could simply be a small sphere or a wheel.