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A shofar (/ ʃ oʊ ˈ f ɑːr / [1] shoh-FAR; from שׁוֹפָר , pronounced ⓘ) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish ritual purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch-altering devices, with all pitch control done by varying the player's embouchure.
Jupiter Ammon, depicted in a terracotta fragment. A fossil ammonite, showing its horn-like spiral. Ammon, eventually Amon-Ra, was a deity in the Egyptian pantheon whose popularity grew over the years, until growing into a monotheistic religion in a way similar to the proposal that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic deity evolved out of the Ancient Semitic pantheon. [2]
Rameses is the ram mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels.The anthropomorphic version of him wears a Tar Heels jersey. Two versions of Rameses appear at UNC sporting events. One is a member of the UNC cheerleading team in an anthropomorphic ram costume; the other is a live Dorset Horn sheep named Rameses who attends Carolina football games with his horns painted Carolina blue.
Ram’s horn or ram horn usually refers to the spiral bony projection grown on the head of a male sheep (ram). It may also refer to: Ram's Horn (restaurant), a restaurant chain based in Detroit, Michigan, US; Ram's horn (shoe), or pigache, a type of shoe with a long, pointed, turned up toe; Bukkehorn, an ancient Scandinavian musical instrument ...
Initially, the blasts made by the ram's horn were blown during the first standing prayer on the Jewish New Year, but by a rabbinic edict, it was enacted that they be blown only during the Mussaf-prayer, because of an incident that happened, whereby congregants who blew the horn during the first standing prayer were suspected by their enemies of staging a war-call and were massacred. [2]
Ram's horn (baby gamma) IPA /ɤ/ IPA close-mid back unrounded vowel, Dan, [21] Goo; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] Ƣ ƣ: Gha Tatar (Jaꞑalif script); Azerbaijani: ʜ 𐞖 Small capital H IPA /ʜ/ IPA voiceless epiglottal trill; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter [7] Ƕ ƕ: Hwair Gothic Ⱶ ⱶ Heta Claudian ...
The ram, symbolizing fertility and war, was revered with such gods as Heryshaf in Heracleopolis and Khnum in Elephantine and Esna. Khnum's wife, Satet, is traditionally depicted with antelope horns. In Mendes, Banebdjedet was typically shown with four ram heads to represent the four souls of the sun god. [20]
The symbol was ultimately revised to be , "ram's horn", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma ɣ . [4] Unicode provides U+0264 ɤ LATIN SMALL LETTER RAMS HORN, but in some fonts this character may appear as a "baby gamma" instead. The superscript IPA version is U+10791 ޑ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN. [5]