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In the typology of ancient Greek pottery, the kernos (Greek κέρνος or κέρχνος, plural kernoi) is a pottery ring or stone tray to which are attached several small vessels for holding offerings. Its unusual design is described in literary sources, which also list the ritual ingredients it might contain. The kernos was used primarily in the cults of Demeter and Kore, and of Cybele and Attis.
The Greek term is sometimes applied to similar compound vessels from other cultures found in the Mediterranean, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and South Asia.
Usage examples of "kernos".
The old Lord had been Kernos, who had been given a reprieve from Death’s arrow years ago and had had those years to watch his beloved granddaughter marry and become a mother, to play with his great grandchildren—and to save one by offering himself.
The religion is fairly ordinary, the people follow the Lady as Astera of the Stars, and the God as Kernos of the Northern Lights.
We had it to spare, praise Kernos, and she’s never yet been wrong when she gets one o’ these notions, so we went along with it.
We had it to spare, praise Kernos, and she's never yet been wrong when she gets one o' these notions, so we went along with it.
Lord Kernos knows he's got all the brains t' make officer right quick.