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Faust or (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German legend. Though a highly successful scholar, he is unsatisfied, and makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Faust's tale is the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works. The meaning of the word and name has been reinterpreted through the ages. Faust, and the adjective Faustian, are often used to describe an arrangement in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success: the proverbial "deal with the devil." The terms can also refer to an unquenchable thirst for knowledge.
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Gerald Brousseau Gardner (June 13, 1884 - February 12, 1964), who sometimes used the craft name Scire, was an influential English Wiccan, as well as an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist, writer, weaponry expert and occultist. He was instrumental in bringing the Neopagan religion of Wicca to public attention in Britain and wrote some of its definitive religious texts. He himself typically referred to the faith as "witchcraft" or "the witch-cult", its adherents "the Wica", and he claimed that it was the survival of a pre-Christian pagan Witch cult that he had been initiated into by a New Forest coven in 1939.
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Leo Ruickbie is an historian and sociologist of magic, witchcraft and Wicca. He is the author of several books, beginning with Witchcraft Out of the Shadows, a 2004 publication outlining the history of witchcraft from ancient Greece until the modern day. Ruickbie was born in Scotland and took a Master's degree in Sociology and Religion at the University of Lancaster. He then studied at King's College London and was an awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled The Re-Enchanters: Theorising Re-Enchantment and Testing for its Presence in Modern Witchcraft. On Samhain 2007 he launched Open Source Wicca, a project inspired by the Open Source software movement aimed at making the founding texts of Wicca more readily available by releasing them under a Creative Commons licence. In 2008 and 2009 he exhibited on the subject of witchcraft in France.
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Lois Bourne is an influential figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, having been involved in it from the early 1960s, and has written a number of books on the subject. Originally initiated into Gardnerian Wicca by Gerald Gardner, she rose to become the High Priestess of the Bricket Wood coven, working alongside the High Priest Jack Bracelin.
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Margaret Murray
Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 - 13 November 1963) was a prominent British Egyptologist and anthropologist. Primarily known for her work in Egyptology, which was "the core of her academic career," she is also known for her propagation of the Witch-cult hypothesis, the theory that the Witch trials in Early Modern Europe and North America were an attempt to extinguish a surviving pre-Christian, pagan religion devoted to a Horned God. Whilst this theory is today widely disputed and discredited by historians like Norman Cohn, Keith Thomas and Ronald Hutton, it has had a significant effect in the origins of Neopagan religions, primarily Wicca, a faith which she herself was supportive of.
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Pherecydes of Syros
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Philip Heselton (born 1946) is a retired British Conservation Officer, a Wiccan initiate, and a writer on the subjects of Wicca, Paganism and Earth mysteries. He is best known for two books, Wiccan Roots: Gerald Gardner and the Modern Witchcraft Revival and Gerald Gardner and the Cauldron of Inspiration, which gather historical evidence surrounding the New Forest coven and the origins of Gardnerian Wicca. He is currently working on a biography of Gerald Gardner.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos (, O Pythagoras o Samios, "Pythagoras the Samian", or simply ; c. 570-c. 495 BC) was an Ionian Greek philosopher and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of our information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, thus very little reliable information is known about him. He was born on the island of Samos, and may have travelled widely in his youth, visiting Egypt and other places seeking knowledge. Around 530 BC, he moved to Croton, a Greek colony in southern Italy, and there set up a religious sect. His followers pursued the religious rites and practices developed by Pythagoras, and studied his philosophical theories. The society took an active role in the politics of Croton, but this eventually led to their downfall. The Pythagorean meeting-places were burned, and Pythagoras was forced to flee the city. He is said to have ended his days in Metapontum.
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Raven Grimassi
Raven Grimassi (born 1951) is the pen name of the author of over a dozen books on Neo-paganism and witchcraft. He is perhaps best known for his popularization of Stregheria, which he and others describe as "the Old Religion of Italy... the Witch sect of Old Italy".
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Raymond Buckland
Raymond Buckland (born 31 August 1934), whose craft name is Robat, is an English American writer on the subject of Wicca and the occult, and a significant figure in the history of Wicca, of which he is a High Priest in both the Gardnerian and Seax traditions.
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Ronald Hutton
Ronald Hutton (born 1954) is a British historian, working as a Professor of the subject at the University of Bristol, and sometimes appears in this capacity on British television and radio. He is also the author of a number of eleven books upon his specialist subjects; Britain in the 17th century, the history of the Neopagan movement and historical British paganism and folklore. He holds a fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford and is also a Commissioner of English Heritage. Hutton's first published work, a biography of Charles II, was released in 1989, and was followed by a work on the British Republic. During the 1990s he published four books, one of which examined ancient British paganism, two of which dealt with later folklore and the fourth of which looked at the later Neopagan religion of Wicca.
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Scott Douglas Cunningham (June 27, 1956 – March 28, 1993) was the author of several books on Wicca and various other alternative religious subjects.
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Silver RavenWolf
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Stewart Farrar
Frank Stewart Farrar (28 June 1916 – 7 February 2000), who always went by the name of Stewart Farrar, was an English screenwriter, novelist and prominent figure in the Neopagan religion of Wicca, which he devoted much of his later life to propagating with the aid of his seventh wife, Janet Farrar, and then his friend Gavin Bone as well. A devout communist in early life, he worked as a reporter for such newspapers as the Soviet Weekly and the Daily Worker, and also served in the British army during the Second World War. He was responsible for writing episodes for such television series as ''Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Armchair Theatre and Crossroads'', and for his work in writing radio scripts won a Writer's Guild Award. He also published a string of novels, written in such disparate genres as crime, romance and fantasy.
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Witch of Endor
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Zsuzsanna Budapest
Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay (born 30 January 1940 in Budapest, Hungary) is an American author of Hungarian origin who writes on feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name and religious name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest. She is the High Priestess and the founding mother of the Susan B. Anthony Coven #1, the first feminist, women-only, witches' coven. She is the director of the Women's Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization featuring lectures, retreats and other events, and was the lead of a cable TV show called 13th Heaven She has an autobiography, Fly by Night, online, soon to be published in book form in the spring of 2010. She is a playwright, her work The Rise of the Fates having premiered in Los Angeles in the mid-seventies. She is the composer of the song, We All Come From the Goddess, as well as others.
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[Music - MT Lyrics - JB]
There's a sacred city not far from here
Where the Earth is bare and the sky is black
Tormented souls are stricken with fear
And the sinners all know there's no way back
Fly into the Pentagram
There's a lot you'll want to see
Sacrifice the crying ram
And drink the blood with me
Giant kingdom down below
Where the lord of darkness sits and waits
For a poor lost mortal to come in
When he lowers down his gates
Prison of death where time stands still
Forever life of pain
Walking dead assault and kill
The people will be slain
[Solos: Larry, Mike]
There's a sacred city not far from here
Where the Earth is bare and the sky is black
Tormented souls are stricken with fear
And the sinners all know there's no way back
Giant kingdom down below
Where the lord of darkness sits and waits
For a poor lost mortal to come in
When he lowers down his gates
You can't escape your destiny
So take my hand and fly
To an evil land of fantasy
Inside of Satan's eye
They set sails towards the sea
Only brave men with hearts of steel.
To embark upon the journey
And bring the treasure back.
They will head the old man's words
As he wrote so long ago
"Go and find the treasure
and live for evermore."
For thousand days they sailed
Towards a distant world.
Reaching to where heaven ends
Beyond the stars- to find the pentagram.
Now the skys fades to black
Strong winds tear the sails apart.
Above them roaring thunder
That echos in the night.
Mighty waves cast the ship aside
One hundred men go down.
Everyone but one man
That lived on to be free.
Long ago they sailed away
To a land beyond the stars.
One man brought the fortune home
And lived for evermore.
Your pentagram is down below our floor.
Your naked body shimmers in the night.
Dancing and chanting in a sacrificial rite.
Your feet are dry with the ashes from dead babies,
Who have passed the test just like all the rest,
But never really understood the reasons why
They took it in the first place.
Ah, in the first place.
Your feasty eyes won't make me fall apart.
Your turquoise and silver won't weaken this old heart.
Yeah, dancing and chanting in a sacrificial rite.
I fell to the ground on a windy, windy night.
Well I have passed the test just like all the rest,
But never really understood the reasons why
I took it in the first place.
Ah, in the first place.
Well I have passed the test just like all the rest,
But never really understood the reasons why
I took it in the first place.
Ah, in the first place.
RELEASE
ALBUMS
- Burning Rays
- The Bees
- Goddess
- Diver
- Rape
- Devil Child
- Out of Luck
- Downhill Slope
- Buzzsaw
- If the Winds Would Change
- Treat Me Right
- Call the Man
- Into the Ground
- 8
- Everything's Turning to Night
- Windmills and Chimes
- American Dream
- Walk in the Blue Light
- Horseman
- Death in 1st Person
- Nothing Left
- All Your Sins (reprise)
- Fatal Predictions
- Demoniac Possession
- Spell of the Pentagram
- The Malefice
- Profaner
- Temple of Perdition
- Demoniac Possession (live)
- Profaner (live)
- Wheel of Fortune
- When the Screams Come
- Under My Thumb
- Smokescreen
- Teaser
- Little Games
- Much Too Young to Know
- Live Free and Burn
- Too Late
- Ask No More
- The World Will Love Again
- Vampyre Love
- Life Blood
- Wolf's Blood
- Frustration
- Bride of Evil
- Nightmare Gown
- Petrified
- A Timeless Heart
- Be Forewarned
- Death Row
- All Your Sins
- Sign of the Wolf
- The Ghoul
- Relentless
- Run My Course
- Sinister
- The Deist
- You're Lost I'm Free
- Dying World
- 20 Buck Spin
- Wheel of Fortune
- Elektra Glide
- Starlady
- Catwalk
- Prayer for an Exit Before the Dead End
- Goddess
- City Romance
- If the Winds Would Change
- Show 'em How
- Last Days Here
- Livin' in a Ram's Head
- Much Too Young to Know
- When the Screams Come
- Madman
- Mad Dog
- Review Your Choices
- Day of Reckoning
- 20 Buck Spin
- Earth Flight
- When the Screams Come (studio version)
- Livin' in a Ram's Head (studio version)
- Fatal Predictions
- Demoniac Possession
- Shell of the Pentagram
- The Malefice
- Profaner
- Temple of Perdition
- Demoniac Possession (live)
- Profaner (live)
- Forever My Queen
- When the Screams Come
- Walk in the Blue Light
- Starlady
- Lazylady
- Review Your Choices
- Hurricane
- Livin' in a Ram's Head
- Earth Flight
- 20 Buck Spin
- Be Forewarned
- Last Days Here
- Petrified
- Wartime
- All Your Sins
- Frustration
- Burning Saviour
- Sinister
- Bride of Evil
- When the Screams Come
- Relentless
- Vampyre Love
- Evil Seed
- The Ghoul
- Wolf's Blood
- Madman
- 20 Buck Spin
- Death Row
- Live Free and Burn
- [data track]
- Spell of the Pentagram
- The Malefice
- Fatal Prediction
- Raining Blood
- Countess Bathory
- Temple of Perdition
- Pigs
- Demented
- Profaner
- Demoniac Possession
- Bloodlust
- Buzzsaw
- Drive Me to the Grave
- Sub-Intro
- Sub-Basement
- Go in Circles (Reachin' for an End)
- Mad Dog
- After the Last
- Tidal Wave
- Out of Luck
- Target
- Burnings Rays
- Change of Heart
- Livin' in a Ram's Head
- Gorgon's Slave
- Review Your Choices
- The Diver
- The Bees
- I Am Vengeance
- Forever My Queen
- Mow You Down
- Downhill Slope
- Megalania
- Gilla?
- Forever My Queen
- The Bees
- Out of Luck
- Goddess
- Target
- Devil Child
- Much Too Young to Know
- If the Winds Would Change
- The Diver
- Rape
- Livin' in a Ram's Head
- Buzzsaw
- Starlady
- Show 'em How
- Downhill Slope
- Hurricane
- Burning Rays
- Relentless
- Sign of the Wolf (Pentagram)
- All Your Sins
- Run My Course
- Death Row
- Dying World
- The Ghoul
- You're Lost I'm Free
- The Deist
- Sinister
- 20 Buck Spin
- Today
- Electric
- Rude
- Animal
- Rock 'n' Roll
- Man Eat Man
- This World Is Mine
- Bad Man
- The Jungle
- Back to Zion
- Don't Break My Beat
- This Is for People
- Deep Down
- Voice
- This Is for My Moshpit
- No Turning Back
- Ten
- Fear
- Disconnected
- So Strange
- Drive
- Don't Care
- Is There a Light
- Dead & Gone
- Think of Me
- Fly
- Price of Bullets
- Is There a Light (Bombay to Goa Mix)
- Disconnected (Vocal)
- Thanks
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Pentagram - Forever My Queen
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:33
- Published: 15 Dec 2008
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
Bias Recordings Studio Demo 1973 Doom Metal
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Pentagram - Be Forewarned
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:30
- Published: 30 Oct 2011
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Lyrics As I wake In the darkness And I look around There is no sound It's so tranquil It's so calm like you But now I hear a noise Is there any way to out of this nightmare I'm alone now And you're laughing at me But I take life In a way that you could never see So if you're leaving You better let me know Cause I've already started my plan And I'm never gonna let you go! I've lived on the dark side of the moon And I've been to the heart of the sun I've had go to bed with many ladies And I've killed many men Before my sixteenth year was done So you be forewarned I'm coming after you When I catch you I'll never I'll never let you go - no! Some say I'm an advocate of Lucifer Some say I'm a child of god - yes they do Some people think I've got the nine lives of a cat And others say I'm filthy as a dog So you be forewarned I'm coming after you When I catch you I'll never I'll never let you go - alright So you be forewarned I'm coming after you When I catch you I'll never I'll never let you go - alright All copyrights and license belongs to Koch Entertainment and Pentagram.
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Mezarkabul(Pentagram)-Tigris+Bir(2007 Bostanci Live)
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- Duration: 5:09
- Published: 11 Feb 2007
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
Mezarkabul is best metal group of turkey.Group's name is mezarkabul on world and Pentagram on Turkey.Group is 20 years old. Group`s Offical Site:www.thepentagram.net
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Pentagram - Dying World
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- Duration: 4:00
- Published: 08 Oct 2007
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
Song: Dying World Band: Pentagram Album: Relentless Genre: Doom Metal
http://wn.com/Pentagram_Dying_World
Pentagram (Mezarkabul) - Bir
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:17
- Published: 01 Jul 2006
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
a video clip of the best Turkish heavy metal band.. rock on!
http://wn.com/Pentagram_Mezarkabul_Bir
Pentagram - The Ghoul (Live @ Roadburn, April 14th, 2011)
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- Duration: 5:23
- Published: 15 Apr 2011
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
Pentagram perform "The Ghoul" off of their 1985 album "Relentless" at the Roadburn Festival of 2011. Recorded live @ Main Stage, 013 in Tilburg, Holland on April 14th, 2011.
http://wn.com/Pentagram_The_Ghoul_Live_@_Roadburn,_April_14th,_2011
Pentagram Broken Vows
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- Duration: 4:39
- Published: 20 May 2009
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
i noticed that no one had uploaded this on youtube....
http://wn.com/Pentagram_Broken_Vows
Pentagram - Sign Of The Wolf
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- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 01 Jun 2010
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
Pentagram - Sign Of The Wolf
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PENTAGRAM - BİR
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- Duration: 4:00
- Published: 05 Dec 2006
- Updated: 31 Aug 2012
PENTAGRAM - BİR
http://wn.com/PENTAGRAM_BİR
Pentagram - Burning Saviour
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- Duration: 9:02
- Published: 22 Dec 2007
- Updated: 08 Sep 2012
Burning Saviour Your lay your head down to sleep And pray to your lord your soul he keeps Hope that he answers all your pleas A sinner like you ON YOUR KNEES How long can you keep pretending You can't live by the rules you're bending All your prayers do no good When you don't do what you should LUCIFER LIVES it's no illusion Your mind is in confusion Thoughts denied all come true When he takes your soul from you Will you writhe and take his turn But you have doubts not born to burn Or will you choose the right hand turn Goat of mendes standing by firm No time left to pray and kneel Open wounds will never heal Your beliefs I'll always spill Shut them down and now you're ill Tears on your pillow so ashamed Of what's going on inside your brain Thoughts above becoming maimed Take the plunge play the game You will write and take his turn I have no doubts you were born to burn No one chooses the right hand turn Goat of mendes standing by firm You're walking through darkness No need to look behind The gates are open for you You're welcome here inside No more listening to reason No more asking why Just accept what you are given No more guilt ridden sighs RIGHT Time turning tolling bells You're learning what I tell Deceiving but not lies Retrieving alibis I laugh hearing you cry Fire bath you want to die Sizzling flesh and burning cells Living dead for the god of Hell You lay your head down to sleep And pray to your lord your soul to keep Hope that he answers all your pleas A <b>...</b>
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Satanic Ritual Tools - The Pentagram
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- Duration: 4:21
- Published: 06 Mar 2008
- Updated: 09 Sep 2012
This is my [brief] interpretation of the meaning of the pentagram within satanic ritual
http://wn.com/Satanic_Ritual_Tools_The_Pentagram
Pentagram - 20 Buck Spin
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- Duration: 4:58
- Published: 06 Aug 2008
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
From the compilation album "First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection)"
http://wn.com/Pentagram_20_Buck_Spin
Pentagram - Relentless
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 06 Nov 2008
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
classic doom metal band from the 1980s (of course they formed in the 70's but didn't get big till the mid 80s) This song is taken from there debut album Relentless
http://wn.com/Pentagram_Relentless
Pentagram
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- Duration: 2:20
- Published: 28 Oct 2008
- Updated: 11 Sep 2012
Band: Cake Album: Motorcade of Generosity Song: Pentagram Lyrics: Your pentagram is down below our floor. Your naked body shimmers in the night. Dancing and chanting in a sacrificial rite. Your feet are dry with the ashes from dead babies, Who have passed the test just like all the rest, But never really understood the reasons why They took it in the first place. Ah, in the first place. Your feasty eyes won't make me fall apart. Your turquoise and silver won't weaken this old heart. Yeah, dancing and chanting in a sacrificial rite. I fell to the ground on a windy, windy night. Well I have passed the test just like all the rest, But never really understood the reasons why I took it in the first place. Ah, in the first place. Well I have passed the test just like all the rest, But never really understood the reasons why I took it in the first place. Ah, in the first place.
http://wn.com/Pentagram
Aleister Crowley-The Pentagram
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- Duration: 1:01
- Published: 29 Oct 2006
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
The Great Beast Speaks of the meaning of the Pentagram, The pentagram is not a symbol of devil worship (it only became so after Levi famously inverted it - duality).
http://wn.com/Aleister_Crowley-The_Pentagram
Possessed- Pentagram
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 31 May 2008
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
Possessed "Pentagram" Seven Churches (1985)
http://wn.com/Possessed_Pentagram
Pentagram - Petrified
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- Duration: 5:55
- Published: 28 Jun 2009
- Updated: 18 Sep 2012
"Petrified" from Pentagram's album "Turn To Stone" (2002). Turn To Stone is a recap of the band's greatest tracks. This track was originally from the album "Be Forewarned" (1994). Lyrics: Born in times when all was stone. All that's left is dust and bone. Somehow still she lingered to be In Satan's clutch for eternity. You'll find out what you didn't believe, For like Medusa's web she'll weave. They call her a whore, But her charms meant more. For she'll petrify you below earth's floor. Chosen to return by command for death, Forced to inflict her immortal test. None see what they're about to go through, Until she's won and you turn blue. You'll be petrified--turn you to stone. Petrified--dust and bone. Oh roll me over, won't you take me down. Petrified--turn you to stone. Petrified--to dust and bone. You'll be petrified--turn you to stone. You'll be petrified--dust and bones. You'll be petrified--she's gonna turn you to stone. You'll be petrified--to dust and bone. You'll be petrified--nothing can help you now.
http://wn.com/Pentagram_Petrified
Pentagram G-SHOCK - The Polish Style #1
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- Duration: 6:23
- Published: 01 Jul 2007
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
ie.youtube.com --- part 2 A movie from the Polish Counter-Strike team Pentagram INTRO: Unknown Error - The yearning Konflict - Messiah Celldweller - Goodbye FRAGPART: Rammstein - Feuer Frei Metallica - I Disappear H-BlockX - The Power
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Pentagram Hurricane
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- Duration: 2:02
- Published: 26 Oct 2008
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
Old time 70s stoner-doom rock/metal in the vein of Black Sabbath
http://wn.com/Pentagram_Hurricane
pentagram "ölümlü" video
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- Duration: 4:25
- Published: 22 Jan 2007
- Updated: 14 Sep 2012
Ölümlü
http://wn.com/pentagram_ölümlü_video
Pentagram - Demoniac Possession
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- Duration: 4:11
- Published: 03 Dec 2008
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Death/Thrash Metal band from Chile formed in 1985. Demoniac Possession was performed by Napalm Death in the album "Leaders Not Followers" (Year: 1999), But this track is Original from Pentagram in Rehearsal Tape (official tape in 1986). Enjoy!!!! \w/, -Lyrics- Exorcised by a high priest Your body writhes in pain Possessed by seven demons Which are conjured away As he speaks the holy words Your limbs contract an ache Unhuman growls escape your throat You can't expel this plague The crucifix touches your head It lacerates the flesh Your face is horribly deformed Your skin darkens and smells Holy water burns your skin The torment's in your eyes Your twisted flesh starts to rot Though you are still alive Floating high in the air Held by demon's hand Invisible force from below Enslaving mortal men Endless wisdom in his words Predict and reveal Visionary eyes To wish nothing conceals Tormenting creations of god Demons bring misery and pain Paradise they have lost Sacrifice in heaven's name Possession of helpless souls Transgression of their reign Six demons have left the shell Forced by holiness Falling again into hell Land of evil reign The mightiest demons will not go Until your body's dead To take your soul into the fire Which burns for evermore
http://wn.com/Pentagram_Demoniac_Possession
Death Row (Pentagram) - Sign of the Wolf
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:23
- Published: 24 Sep 2006
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
live show from 1983..
http://wn.com/Death_Row_Pentagram_Sign_of_the_Wolf
Pentagram (Mezarkabul) - Tigris
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 22 May 2006
- Updated: 17 Sep 2012
An intro from the best oriental heavy metal band of Turkey.
http://wn.com/Pentagram_Mezarkabul_Tigris
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Santa Rosa church tagged with pentagram graffiti
03 May 2012
The Press Democrat
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The history of the pentagram
02 Apr 2012
The Examiner
The History of the Pentagram Today there are two basic reactions a person will get if they are sporting a pentagram anywhere on their person. The response from those less educated is either: devil worshipper or witch, to some people those two views is really one in the same. The pentagram inverted...(size: 7.2Kb)
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IMDb
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>The Gas Law Pentagram
15 Nov 2011
Wired News
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Occult symbols explained: The Pentagram
08 Oct 2011
The Examiner
There are very few symbols as easily recognised and misunderstood as the pentagram. When most see it they immediately conjure up goat heads, sacrificial blades, black candles, fire and brimstone, and bad rockers in worse get ups. The pentagram is easily recognized by the interconnected five point...(size: 8.3Kb)
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For other uses, see Pentagram (disambiguation).
| Regular pentagram | |
|---|---|
 A regular pentagram |
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| Type | Regular polygon |
| Edges and vertices | 5 |
| Schläfli symbol | {5/2} |
| Coxeter–Dynkin diagram |    |
| Symmetry group | Dihedral (D5) |
| Internal angle (degrees) | 36° |
| Dual polygon | self |
| Properties | star, cyclic, equilateral, isogonal, isotoxal |
A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha or pentangle or a star pentagon) is the shape of a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. The word pentagram comes from the Greek word πεντάγραμμον (pentagrammon),[1] a noun form of πεντάγραμμος (pentagrammos) or πεντέγραμμος (pentegrammos), a word meaning roughly "five-lined" or "five lines", from πέντε (pente), "five"[2] + γραμμή (grammē), "line".[3]
Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient Greece and Babylonia, and are used today as a symbol of faith by many Wiccans, akin to the use of the cross by Christians and the Star of David by Jews. The pentagram has magical associations, and many people who practice Neopagan faiths wear jewelry incorporating the symbol. Christians once more commonly used the pentagram to represent the five wounds of Jesus.[4][5] The pentagram has associations with Freemasonry[6] and is also utilized by other belief systems.
The word "pentacle" is sometimes used synonymously with "pentagram", and this usage is borne out by the Oxford English Dictionary, although that work specifies that a circumscription makes the shape more particularly a pentacle.[7] Wiccans and Neopagans often make use of this more specific definition for a pentagram enclosed in a circle.[8]
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Classification[link]
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The simple five-pointed star is not a pentagram.
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A pentagram always has strokes through the center and has 5 points.
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A pentacle is a pentagram with a circle around it (point-down in this image).
Early history[link]
Sumer[link]
The first known uses of the pentagram are found in Mesopotamian writings dating to about 3000 BC. The Sumerian pentagrams served as pictograms for the word "UB" meaning "corner, angle, nook; a small room, cavity, hole; pitfall", suggesting something very similar to the pentemychos (see below on the Pythagorean use for what pentemychos means). In René Labat's index system of Sumerian hieroglyphs/pictograms it is shown with two points up.[9] In the Babylonian context, the edges of the pentagram were probably orientations: forward, backward, left, right, and "above".[10] These directions also had an astrological meaning, representing the five planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Venus as the "Queen of Heaven" (Ishtar) above.[10]
Pythagoreans[link]
The Pythagoreans called the pentagram ὑγιεία Hugieia ("health"; also the Greek goddess of health, Hygieia[11]), and saw in the pentagram a mathematical perfection (see Geometry section below).
The ancient Pythagorean pentagram, with two legs up, represented the Pentemychos (πεντέμυχος "of five sanctuaries"),[12] a cosmogony written by Pythagoras' teacher and friend Pherecydes of Syros.[13][14] It was the "island" or "cave"[13] where the first pre-cosmic-offspring had to be put in order for the cosmos to appear: "the divine products of Chronos' seed [σπέρμα spérma], when disposed in five recesses, were called Πεντέμυχος (Pentemuxos)".[13]
Wu Xing[link]
Main article: Wu Xing
Wu Xing (Chinese: 五行; pinyin: Wǔ Xíng), the five phases, or five elements, is an ancient Chinese mnemonic and symbolic figure widely known in East Asia and used traditionally in applications such as medicine, acupuncture, feng shui, and Taoism. They are similar to the ancient Greek elements, with more emphasis on their cyclic transformation than on their material aspects. The five phases are: Fire (火 huǒ), Earth (土 tǔ), Metal (金 jīn), Water (水 shuǐ), and Wood (木 mù).
The vectors of the overcoming or controlling cycle visually form a pentagram which is commonly incorporated into depictions. Generative and destructive cycles are shown as clockwise and counter-clockwise circular motion.[15]
- controlling cycle
- wood breaks earth, earth absorbs water, water douses fire, fire melts metal, metal splits wood.
- generative cycle
- wood feeds fire, fire makes earth, earth bears metal, metal collects water, water nourishes wood.
- destructive cycle
- wood absorbs water, water rusts metal, metal breaks earth, earth smothers fire, fire burns wood.
European occultism[link]
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and others perpetuated the popularity of the pentagram as a magic symbol, keeping the Pythagorean attributions of elements to the five points. By the mid-19th century a further distinction had developed amongst occultists regarding the pentagram's orientation. With a single point upwards it depicted spirit presiding over the four elements of matter, and was essentially "good". However, the influential writer Eliphas Levi called it evil whenever the symbol appeared the other way up.
- "A reversed pentagram, with two points projecting upwards, is a symbol of evil and attracts sinister forces because it overturns the proper order of things and demonstrates the triumph of matter over spirit. It is the goat of lust attacking the heavens with its horns, a sign execrated by initiates."[16]
- "The flaming star, which, when turned upside down, is the hierolgyphic [sic] sign of the goat of Black Magic, whose head may be drawn in the star, the two horns at the top, the ears to the right and left, the beard at the bottom. It is the sign of antagonism and fatality. It is the goat of lust attacking the heavens with its horns."[17]
- "Let us keep the figure of the Five-pointed Star always upright, with the topmost triangle pointing to heaven, for it is the seat of wisdom, and if the figure is reversed, perversion and evil will be the result."[18]
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Man inscribed in a pentagram, from Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's De occulta philosophia libri tres. The five signs at the pentagram's vertices are astrological.
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Another pentagram from Agrippa's book. This one has the Pythagorean letters inscribed around the circle.
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The occultist and magician Eliphas Levi's pentagram, which he considered to be a symbol of the microcosm, or human.
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Religious symbolism[link]
Bahá'í Faith[link]
Main article: Bahá'í symbols
The five-pointed star is the symbol of the Bahá'í Faith.[19][20] In the Bahá'í Faith, the star is known as the Haykal (Arabic: "temple"), and it was initiated and established by the Báb. The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh wrote various works in the form of a pentagram.[21]
Christianity[link]
The pentagram is used as a Christian symbol for the five senses,[22] Medieval Christians believed that the "pentalpha" symbolizes the five wounds of Christ. The pentagram was believed to protect against demons.[23]
The pentagram figured in a heavily symbolic Arthurian romance:[23] it appears on the shield of Sir Gawain in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. As the poet explains, the five points of the star each have five meanings: they represent the five senses, the five fingers, the five wounds of Christ,[24] the five joys that Mary had of Jesus (the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Assumption), and the five virtues of knighthood which Gawain hopes to embody: noble generosity, fellowship, purity, courtesy, and compassion.
Mormonism[link]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began using both upright and inverted five-pointed stars in Temple architecture, dating from the Nauvoo Illinois Temple, which was dedicated on 30 April 1846.[25] Other temples decorated with five-pointed stars in both orientations include the Salt Lake Temple, and the Logan Temple. These symbols derived from traditional Morning Star pentagrams that are no longer commonly used by other Christian denominations.[26]
Neopaganism[link]
Many Neopagans, especially Wiccans, use the pentagram as a symbol of faith similar to the Christian cross or the Jewish Star of David. Its religious symbolism is commonly explained by reference to the neo-Pythagorean understanding that the five vertices of the pentagram represent the four elements with the addition of Spirit as the uppermost point. As a representation of the elements, the pentagram is involved in the Wiccan practice of summoning the elemental spirits of the four directions at the beginning of a ritual.
The outer circle of the circumscribed pentagram is sometimes interpreted as binding the elements together or bringing them into harmony with each other. The Neopagan pentagram is generally displayed with one point up, partly because of the "inverted" goat's head pentagram's association with Satanism; however, within traditional forms of Wicca a pentagram (no circle) with two points up is associated with the Second Degree Initiation and in this way differs from the encircled pentacle inverted of Satanism.[27]
Because of a perceived association with Satanism and also because of negative societal attitudes towards Neopagan religions and the "occult", many United States schools have sought to prevent students from displaying the pentagram on clothing or jewelry.[28][29][30] In public schools, such actions by administrators have been determined to be in violation of students' First Amendment right to free exercise of religion.[31]
The circle around a pentagram (transforming it in to a pentacle) is a symbol of "unity, wholeness, infinity, the goddess, and protection. To earth-centered religions throughout history as well as to many contemporary pagans, it represents the feminine spirit or force, the cosmos or a spiritualism Mother Earth, and a sacred space."[citation needed] The five-pointed star is representative of the four primal elements (earth, air, fire and water,) and traditionally a fifth, called spirit. The circle binds them together to create life. When pointing up, the pentagram can represent spirituality's dominance over the material (pentagram) bound inside the laws of the cosmos (circle). The upside-down facing pentagram, meanwhile, represents the physical world ruling over the spiritual, and has therefore been associated with dark magic. Other sources point to its origin in Chinese five-element philosophy (see feng shui), as the natural balance between fire, water, earth, wood, and metal. This theory states that the direction it is pointing has nothing to do with good or evil, but rather the upside-down facing circle is for banishing. The circle is again for the concept the power within is bound by, this time for the circle of life.[32]
Satanism[link]
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Satanists use a pentagram with two points up, often inscribed in a double circle, with the head of a goat inside the pentagram. This is referred to as the Sigil of Baphomet. They use it much the same way as the Pythagoreans, as Tartaros literally translates from Greek as a "Pit" or "Void" in Christian terminology (the word is used as such in the Bible, referring to the place where the fallen angels are fettered). The Pythagorean Greek letters are most often replaced by the Hebrew letters לויתן forming the name Leviathan. Less esoteric LaVeyan Satanists use it as a sign of rebellion or religious identification, the three downward points symbolising rejection of Trinity.
Thelema[link]
Aleister Crowley also made use of the pentagram and in his Thelemic system of magick: an adverse or inverted pentagram represents the descent of spirit into matter, according to the interpretation of Lon Milo DuQuette.[33] Crowley contradicted his old comrades in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, who, following Levi, considered this orientation of the symbol evil and associated it with the triumph of matter over spirit.
Political symbolism[link]
Flags[link]
While a solid five-pointed star is found on many flags, the pentagram is relatively rare. It appears on two national flags, those of Ethiopia and Morocco and in some coats of arms. According to Ivan Sache, on the Moroccan flags, the pentagram represents the link between God and the nation.[34] It is also possible that both flags use the pentagram as a symbol of King Solomon (see Seal of Solomon), the archetypal wise king of Jewish, Christian and Muslim lore, although the six-pointed Star of David is a more common and more widely accepted symbol. In either case, the pentagram is a traditional symbol of both the Moroccan and Ethiopian peoples, and, within Morocco, is also a symbol of the Alaouite dynasty.
Other organizations[link]
Order of the Eastern Star[link]
The Order of the Eastern Star, an organization associated with Freemasonry, has employed a point-down pentagram as its symbol, with the five isosceles triangles of the points colored red, blue, yellow, white and green. This is an older form of the order's emblem and it is now more commonly depicted with the central pentagon rotated 36° so that it is no longer strictly a pentagram.
In literature[link]
In the medieval romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the pentagram on Gawain's shield is given a Christian interpretation (see above).
In Goethe's Faust, an incomplete pentagram prevents Mephistopheles from leaving a room.
- Mephistopheles:
- I must confess, my stepping o'er
- Thy threshold a slight hindrance doth impede;
- The wizard-foot doth me retain.
- Faust:
- The pentagram thy peace doth mar?
- To me, thou son of hell, explain,
- How camest thou in, if this thine exit bar?
- Could such a spirit aught ensnare?
- Mephistopheles:
- Observe it well, it is not drawn with care,
- One of the angles, that which points without,
- Is, as thou seest, not quite closed.
According to Eliphas Levi, the sign of the pentagram is exalted by Goethe in the monologue of Faust:
"... Ah, how do all my senses leap at this sight! I feel the young and sacred pleasure of life quivering in my nerves and veins. Was it a God who traced this sign which stills the vertigo of my soul, fills my poor heart with joy, and, in a mysterious rapture, unveils the forces of Nature around me? Am I myself a God? All is so clear to me: I behold in these simple line the revelation of active Nature to my soul. I realise for the first time the truth of the wise man's words: The world of spirits is not closed! Thy sense is obtuse, thy heart is dead! Arise! Bathe, O adept of science, thy breast, still enveloped by an unearthly veil, in the splendours of the dawning day!" (Faust, Part i.sc.i).[35]
In H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories, the version of The Elder Sign devised by August Derleth is a warped pentagram with a flaming eye or pillar of flame in the center. It was first described in Derleth's novel, The Lurker at the Threshold. (This was, however, different from the symbol that Lovecraft himself had envisaged.)
In T.S. Eliot's The Dry Salvages, reference to pentagrams is made in part V, verse 8:
- By sortilege, or tea leaves, riddle the inevitable
- With playing cards, fiddle with pentagrams
- Or barbituric acids, or dissect
- The recurrent image into pre-conscious terrors[...]
In Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, the pentagram represents Venus, based on the successive inferior conjunctions of Venus against the Zodiac.
The title of Jo Nesbø's novel The Devil's Star, refers to a pentagram.
In Japanese culture, the pentagram (五芒星 gobōsei) is a symbol of magical power, associated with the onmyoji Abe no Seimei; it is a diagram of the "overcoming cycle" of the five Chinese elements. As a predominantly non-Christian country, with a different set of associations attached to the symbol, there is no social stigma associated with it.
Geometry[link]
The pentagram is the simplest regular star polygon. The pentagram contains ten points (the five points of the star, and the five vertices of the inner pentagon) and fifteen line segments. It is represented by the Schläfli symbol {5/2}. Like a regular pentagon, and a regular pentagon with a pentagram constructed inside it, the regular pentagram has as its symmetry group the dihedral group of order 10.
Construction[link]
The pentagram can be constructed by connecting alternate vertices of a pentagon; see details of the construction. It can also be constructed as a stellation of a pentagon, by extending the edges of a pentagon until the lines intersect.
Golden ratio[link]
The golden ratio, φ = (1 + √5) / 2 ≈ 1.618, satisfying
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- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \varphi=1/(2\sin(\pi/10))=1/(2\sin 18^\circ)\,
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \varphi=2\cos(\pi/5)=2\cos 36^\circ\,
plays an important role in regular pentagons and pentagrams. Each intersection of edges sections the edges in golden ratio: the ratio of the length of the edge to the longer segment is φ, as is the length of the longer segment to the shorter. Also, the ratio of the length of the shorter segment to the segment bounded by the 2 intersecting edges (a side of the pentagon in the pentagram's center) is φ. As the four-color illustration shows:
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The pentagram includes ten isosceles triangles: five acute and five obtuse isosceles triangles. In all of them, the ratio of the longer side to the shorter side is φ. The acute triangles are golden triangles. The obtuse isosceles triangle highlighted via the colored lines in the illustration is a golden gnomon.
Trigonometric values[link]
Further information: Exact trigonometric constants: Pentagon
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \sin \frac{\pi}{10} = \sin 18^\circ = \frac{\sqrt 5 - 1}{4}=\frac{\varphi-1}{2}=\frac{1}{2\varphi}
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \cos \frac{\pi}{10} = \cos 18^\circ = \frac{\sqrt{2(5 + \sqrt 5)}}{4}
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \tan \frac{\pi}{10} = \tan 18^\circ = \frac{\sqrt{5(5 - 2 \sqrt 5)}}{5}
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \cot \frac{\pi}{10} = \cot 18^\circ = \sqrt{5 + 2 \sqrt 5}
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \sin \frac{\pi}{5} = \sin 36^\circ = \frac{\sqrt{2(5 - \sqrt 5)} }{4}
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \cos \frac{\pi}{5} = \cos 36^\circ = \frac{\sqrt 5+1}{4} = \frac{\varphi}{2}
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \tan \frac{\pi}{5} = \tan 36^\circ = \sqrt{5 - 2\sqrt 5}
- Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \cot \frac{\pi}{5} = \cot 36^\circ = \frac{ \sqrt{5(5 + 2\sqrt 5)}}{5}
As a result, in an isosceles triangle with one or two angles of 36°, the longer of the two side lengths is φ times that of the shorter of the two, both in the case of the acute as in the case of the obtuse triangle.
Three-dimensional figures[link]
Further information: Uniform polyhedron: Icosahedral symmetry
Several polyhedra incorporate pentagrams:
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Sixteenth stellation of icosidodecahedron.png
Higher dimensions[link]
Orthogonal projections of higher dimensional polytopes can also create pentagrammic figures:
| 4D | 5D | ||
|---|---|---|---|
 The regular 5-cell (4-simplex) has 5 vertices and 10 edges. |
 The rectified 5-cell has 10 vertices and 30 edges. |
 The rectified 5-simplex has 15 vertices, seen in this orthogonal projection as 3 nested pentagrams. |
 The birectified 5-simplex has 20 vertices, seen in this orthogonal projection as 4 overlapping pentagrams. |
All ten 4-dimensional Schläfli-Hess polychoron have either pentagrammic faces or vertex figure elements.
In astronomy and nature[link]
 Successive inferior conjunctions of Venus repeat very near a 13:8 orbital resonance (The Earth orbits 8 times for every 13 orbits of Venus), creating a pentagrammic precession sequence. |
In visual arts[link]
- The artist Martina Schettina uses pentagrams in her paintings.[36] The painting "Golden Pentagram" was shown at the Museumsquartier in Vienna in 2010.[37]
- Artist William Powhida employed pentagrams in his 2010 performance Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery at Hyperallergic in Brooklyn, NY. The artist performed curses that promised to "induce a favorable Friday New York Times review", "be paid within ninety days or three moons", "ward off annoying bloggers", or "beat your high estimate at auction".[38]
See also[link]
- Command-at-Sea Pin
- Enneagram (geometry)
- Heptagram
- Hexagram
- List of regular polytopes#Two Dimensions 2
- List of symbols
- Mullet (heraldry)
- Nonconvex uniform polyhedra with full icosahedral symmetry (many show a pattern of pentagrams)
- Pentad
- Pentachoron – the 4-simplex
- Pentagram map (related concept)
- Pentalpha
- Petersen graph
- Ptolemy's theorem
- Red star
- Star (glyph)
- Stellated polygons
Notes[link]
- ^ πεντάγραμμον, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ πέντε, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ γραμμή, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ "Pentagram" article in The Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols Becker, Udo, ed., Garmer, Lance W. translator, New York: Continuum Books, 1994, p. 230.
- ^ Signs and Symbols in Christian Art Ferguson, George, Oxford University Press: 1966, p. 59.
- ^ Order of the Eastern Star
- ^ "Pentacle", Oxford English Dictionary.
- ^ Associated Press (23 April 2007). "Wiccan symbol OK for soldiers' graves". CNN. Archived from the original on 26 April 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070426075801/http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/wiccan.grave.ap/index.html. Retrieved 23 April 2007.
- ^ Labat, René. Manuel d'épigraphie akkadienne: Signes, Syllabaire, Idéogrammes. The pentagram is symbol number 306 in this system.
- ^ a b Merlin Raven Song: The Pentagram
- ^ ὑγίεια, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ πεντέμυχος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ a b c Kirk, Geoffrey Stephen; Raven, John Earle; Schofield, Malcolm (1983) [1957]. The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts (2nd edition, illustrated, revised, reprint ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 51–52, 55. ISBN 978-0-521-27455-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=kFpd86J8PLsC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA52. "the only other place in Homer where Ortygie [sic] is mentioned is Odyssey V, 123, where Orion, having been carried off by Eos [the dawn], is slain... by Artemis... since solstices would normally be observed at sunrise in summer, and so in the north-east-by-east direction, that is what the phrase might suggest... the dwelling-place of Eos... Aia..."
- ^ This is a lost book, but its contents are preserved in Damascius, De principiis, quoted in Kirk and Raven, (1983) [1956], p. 55.
- ^ Northern Shaolin Academy — Wu Xing Chart Chinese five elements table of correspondences (Microsoft Excel 2003 Format).
- ^ Levi, Eliphas (1855). Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual.
- ^ Levi, Eliphas (1861, translated 2001 by Aleister Crowley). The Key of the Mysteries. Found at scribd.comm, page 69.
- ^ Hartmann, Franz (c. 1895). Magic, White and Black.
- ^ Bahá'í Reference Library – Directives from the Guardian, Pages 51–52
- ^ Nine-Pointed Star, The:History and Symbolism by Universal House of Justice 24 January 1999
- ^ Haykal - Baha'i Five Pointed Star Symbol
- ^ Christian Symbols Ancient and Modern, Child, Heather and Dorothy Colles. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971, ISBN 0-7135-1960-6.
- ^ a b Pentagram, pentacle
- ^ Christian Symbols and How To Use Them, Knapp, Justina; Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1955. Plate LXV, Plate LV (Imprimatur, Jos. F. Busch, Bishop of St. Cloud)
- ^ See the Nauvoo Temple website discussing its architecture, and particularly the page on Nauvoo Temple exterior symbolism. Retrieved 13 December 2006.
- ^ Brown, Matthew B (2002). "Inverted Stars on LDS Temples". FAIRLDS.org. Archived from the original on 29 February 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080229073604/http://www.fairlds.org/pubs/Stars.pdf.
- ^ Stewart, Farrar. The Witches' Way. Chapter II – Second Degree Initiation
- ^ "Religious Clothing in School", Robinson, B.A., Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, 20 August 1999, updated 29 April 2005. Retrieved 10 February 2006.
- ^ "ACLU Defends Honor Student Witch Pentacle" (Press release). American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan. 10 February 1999. http://aclumich.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26. Retrieved 10 February 2006.
- ^ "Witches and wardrobes: Boy says he was suspended from school for wearing magical symbol" Rouvalis, Cristina; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27 September 2000. Retrieved 10 February 2006.
- ^ "Federal judge upholds Indiana students' right to wear Wiccan symbols". 1 May 2000. http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org//news.aspx?id=7234. Retrieved 21 September 2007.
- ^ Relijournal.com
- ^ The Magick of Aleister Crowley p 93 and endnote 31 to Chapter Five (p 247).
- ^ Moroccan flag on Flagspot.net Retrieved 10 February 2006.
- ^ Eliphas Levi (1995). Transcendental Magic. Samuel Weiser Inc.. p. 69. ISBN 0-87728-079-7.
- ^ 2009: Martina Schettina: Mathemagische Bilder – Bilder und Texte. Vernissage Verlag Brod Media, Wien 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01743-6 (German)
- ^ About the exhibition, interview on Radio Ö1(recalled at 19 June 2010)
- ^ Lackman, Jon. "Magical Realism". Artnews. September 2010.
References[link]
- Grünbaum, B. and G.C. Shephard; Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., (1987), ISBN 0-7167-1193-1.
- Grünbaum, B.; Polyhedra with Hollow Faces, Proc of NATO-ASI Conference on Polytopes ... etc. (Toronto 1993), ed T. Bisztriczky et al., Kluwer Academic (1994) pp. 43–70.
External links[link]
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- Weisstein, Eric W., "Pentagram" from MathWorld.
- The Pythagorean Pentacle from the Biblioteca Arcana.
- In-depth analysis of the Golden Ratio
- The pentagram and Freemasonry
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