Drinking horn with sun wheel, 300-500 ml

Product description

This drinking horn is engraved with a sun wheel. At the top rim and point it is fitted with brass fittings. This horn is handmade from a genuine ox horn. Avoid dishwashers and hot drinks. Wash under running water before use. After each use, treat with beeswax for a longer lifespan.

The sun cross has appeared since prehistoric times in art and mythology and symbolizes the central role of the sun in daily and spiritual life. In rock carvings from Alta and Bronze age art on Bornholm, the sun is depicted with rays and possibly lunar cycles. Objects such as the Trundholm sun chariot show the sun as a traveling force, which travels across the sky during the day and through the underworld at night. In the late Bronze age, the sun cross also gained a connection with wheels, which emphasized the sun as a moving, life-giving force. This motif remained associated with the Indo-European sun cult and was later adopted by Christianity in the 'Celtic cross'.

Historically, drinking horns have deep symbolic meaning. Nearly all Indo-European peoples used drinking horns. Friends drank together from the same horn to emphasize their relationship, based on oath-bound reciprocity. Viking women are regularly depicted with drinking horns, which signified the sacred role of the hostess. The Greeks and Romans used horns during libations, which emphasized an oath-bound reciprocal relationship with the gods. Drinking horns were ideal for this, because the horns emphasize cattle that played a central role in our originally nomadic steppe culture more than 5,000 years ago. We also see this in stories about cattle raiding