what is the meaning of a pentagram?

Question

just wanted to know, what does the pentagram as a symbol actually mean/stand for?

Answer 1

The pentagram symbolises the 4 elements of earth, water, air, fire, plus the fifth element or quintessence. This is the symbolism I used when I did my final year talk on alchemy as part of my Chemistry degree.

The pentagram is not an evil symbol at all and is even shown as part of the drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci called "Universal Man". Sometimes it is referred to as the Seal of Solomon. I take the meaning of Solomon as Harmony since the aim of the true mage is to balance all things....

In any symbol we find a reflection of our own thoughts and even our own prejudices. A little research on any topic with reveal a plethora of answers!

Carys Arwyn

Answer 2

The pentagram, a five pointed star facing up, originated in Persia under the term panticle, or "pointed star". A panticle could have any number of points, the best known at the time being the "Seal of Soloman", a six pointed panticle now known as the "Star of David". In the 3rd century B.C. the Greek religious leader, Pythagoras, adopted the 5 pointed star, which he called a pentagram, from the Greek "pent" (5), as the symbol of his religious movement. That movement became one of the forming factors of what we now know as the "Western Mystical Tradition", a movement that influenced the Masons, Iolo Morganwg's Neo-Druidic movement of 1793, Aleister Crowley's Hermaetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and Gerald Gardner's Neo-Pagan Wiccan movement of 1939. The idea that the pentagram is Satanic is a Christian idea based on the idea that if turned upside-down it represents the head of a goat. The goat is refered to as "baphomet", an anagram of an ancient word for "wisdom", considered a symbol for evil since wisdom and knowledge were the sins for which Mankind was expelled from Eden. I.E. the "Tree of Knowledge".
Within the Wiccan faith, the five points of the pentagram represent Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. The lower four points being the aspects of the physical body, and the upper point representing the connection between the Earthly and the Divine.

Answer 3

The pentagram is a originally pagan symbol symbolising the five elements of nature, earth, air, fire, water and spirit. An upside down pentagram also symbolises fertility and unfortunately has been widely used by the christian church as a satanic symbol since they went all 'anti pagan' and started burning witches.
You got to love those christians haven't you.
Other faiths have taken it as their own for different meanings but it is and always has been a pagan symbol.

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Answer 4

A pentagram (sometimes known as pentalpha or pentangle) is a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. The word pentagram comes from the Greek word πεντάγραμμον (pentagrammon), a noun form of πεντάγραμμος (pentagrammos) or πεντέγραμμος (pentegrammos), a word meaning roughly "five-lined" or "five lines".

Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient Greece and Babylonia. The Pentagram has magical associations, and many people who practice pagan faiths wear them. Christians once commonly used the pentagram to represent the five wounds of Jesus, and it also has associations within Freemasonry.

The pentagram has long been associated with the planet Venus, and the worship of the goddess Venus, or her equivalent. It is also associated with the Roman Lucifer, who was Venus as the Morning Star, the bringer of light and knowledge. It is most likely to have originated from the observations of prehistoric astronomers.[citation needed] When viewed from Earth, successive inferior conjunctions of Venus plot a nearly perfect pentagram shape around the zodiac every eight years.

Answer 5

Symbolism of the pentagram is varied. Christians once used it to represent the 5 wounds of Christ. It has also represented the 5 senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight. In Pagan traditions, it mainly represents the 5 elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Spirit.

Answer 6

It's really interesting to read the illiterate Christian's replies to this question about a protection symbol. Maybe its those people we need protection from. So yes, this ancient symbol was once used in Christianity but like so many Pagan symbols and feast days that they adopted for their own, this one didn't make it.

Answer 7

Its a positive symbol the nice pagans unlike the evil witchburner cult christians.

They hate pagans as pagans were like womens rights

Sacred feminine, elements not sue ask pagans not chrisitians

Answer 8

A five sided figure. Originally the Star of David. Some early Christians attributed that to the Devil because they believed that Jews were born of Satan. They were blamed for the death of Jesus.

Answer 9

i would like to settle the crap around the oentogram


the pentogram was origanilly used by pagans.... them the christians stole it and used it to symbolise the five wounds of christ
then when the church went anti pagan it became satans symbol


happy?

Answer 10

The devil tried to copy the star of David when he started having his subjects use it to summon him.