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Symbolism
PENTACLE
For many ignorant people only satanic symbol, really the Pentacle, in english called also "talisman", is one of the most beautiful concepts ever represented. The shape is that of a circle containing a five-pointed star. The star is an ancient symbol as man and represents precisely the stylized human being: legs, arms and head. Five arts, and even four limbs and a brain capable of thinking, divine being… That means Pentacle: the human being inserted in the Universe, being in perfect harmony with creation. The tips in magical tradition, today resumed Wicca religion, symbolizing the cardinal points followed by the top tip, the Akasha, the world of spirits (the Egyptians say it "Duat", Heaven: in fact the symbol has its origin in Egypt as representation of the star Sothis, Sirius).

The Pentacle in Wicca is traced by witches during the rites, and it make a protective function; in some tradition, the witches and wizards reaching a second level of illumination bring the pentacle reversed, with the top down, but this not has bad meaning, only symbolizes a particular spiritual evolution. Essentially the two tips pointing upward is a reminder of the horns of the ram, the Baphomet and thus the Triple Goddess, i.e. Isis with the horns and sun disk, protective Mother Earth. But this symbol has been looted from Satanism, which obviously incapable of having an autonomous symbolic tradition is forced to plunder their symbol from Celtic tradition, from the Egyptian etc.. The meaning for them is simple: you put materialism above all things, spirituality and the evolution of are discarded. Satanists often reversed over the pentacle take a cross upside down in it. But it is precisely modern traditions that do not have much credit, although in the eyes of the public opinion dirty the positive image of the benevolent and powerful pentacle.

(Right) The Egyptian Sothis Goddess, personification of Isis, was linked to the star Sirius bearer of fertility because its eliac rise was concurrent with the flood of the Nile and thus with the annual deposition of silt which made fertile the fields. The symbol of Sothis was the five-pointed star and here born the symbolism of the pentacle.

 

 

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