why do so many satanic people use pentagrams?

Question

i was just wondering i look up stuff over curiosity sorry for spelling and i typed in pentagram and looked up in images and saw a lot of satanic stuff i just wonder a lot about stuff like this

Answer 1

What are you considering Satanic?
And to the first person that answered...there are European Traditions of Wicca that use the inverted pentagram to signify a 2nd degree Witch. One cannot tell who is who by pentagram position alone.

Answer 2

An inverted pentagram is thought to be associated with Satanism and the goat headed god. As the first answer says. It is based on the elements and the God and Goddess of the Pagan religion. Inverted pentagrams are also used in banishing rituals.

Please understand that Satanism is the opposite of Christianity and has nothing to do with Witchcraft. Satan is a Christian concept. We do not believe in Christ, therefore we do not believe in Satan.

Answer 3

Pentagrams can signify Satanism, while pentacles (star in the circle) usually represent Pagan practices. The pentagram also is sometimes used for 2nd degree Gardnerians (Wicca), I believe.

Answer 4

The pagans were (well actually still are by fundies) believed to worship the devil by the church.

It is to intimidate Christians, they are mocking Christians for being gullible, you see most Satanists don't actually believe in the devil, they only use this symbol to represent their belief on how you should live, look it up.

also, having an upside down pentagram is not necessarily Satanic, it is used to represent a different ideal on how to live, with the point facing up it represents putting spirituality first, with it on the bottom it shows living with a slightly more materialistic approach. This is just one example of what an upside down pentagram would mean, as it varies with different people

Answer 5

Wiccans use pentagrams too. Satanism is a religion based solely on self indulgence. If you read the book the Satanic Bible by Anton LeVay you would know it has nothing whatsoever to do with the fictional Satan.

Answer 6

The Pentagram is much older than people realize. In the current day, it's use is mainly as a sign of earth based faiths,showing the four elements topped with the realm of spirit. There are many other examples.

The Pentagram is very old and can be traced back to 3500 BC. The Pentagram's association with evil is recent. Before this demonizing, the Pentagram was known and in some cases is still known as a sign for royalty, to mean that their power spread to the four corners of the world. It was a sign of protection against evil and demons worn by people and placed over their doors and windows all over during Medieval times.

Called the "endless knot," it was a symbol of Truth, a sign painted on knights' shields to show the 5 virtues of
generosity, courtesy, chastity, chivalry and piety.

As a Christian sign, it denoted the 5 wounds of Christ.

It was also asign showing the perfection of man by the
Pythagoreans and called the Pentalpha. They were very into its geometry. It was the sign of Freemasonry, which descends from the Pythagorean.

The Satanism association is pure nonsense.

For the Rosicrucian faith who use the Kabala, it was and still
is the sign of humanity reborn and as a means to study the faith and the inner mysteries.

It was used as a sign of life and humanity for the 5 fingers,senses, ages of man.

In Egypt the five pointed star represented the underground womb. From which all are reborn.

The Celts used it for the same reason.

Hermetic magicians used the Pentacle for their model of Man in the Microcosm.

It is also the five-petaled Lotus that appears on the hands of the Buddha in many depictions and a sign of man's quest for perfect enlightenment

Shiva is called the 'Panchanana' or five faced and the Pentagram is still used today to represent it.

Gypsies still cut an apple sideways, to show the Kore, the Pentacle of the Virgin, which they call the Star of Knowledge.

Among the Jews, the symbol was ascribed to Truth and to the five books of the Pentateuch.

Which are the first five books of the bible and represented as a whole ... the concept of truth

The annual Christian feast of the Epiphany, celebrating the visit of the three Magi to the infant Jesus had the Pentagram
as its symbol for a time‚ due to its adopted date by the church as the birth date of the Christ, which coincided with Winter Solstice.

It also represents a mystical symbol by the Gnostics, who called it the Blazing Star and still use it from time to time

For the Druids, it was a symbol of Godhead, and used in much the same manner as most current day Pagans as a sign of the elements.

The Pentagram with one point upwards symbolized summer, with two points upwards, it was a sign for winter.

During the Roman Republic, the pentagram represented the building trades. Also seen on a great many coins struck before the conversion of Rome to Christianity during the rein of The Emperor Constantine. The only reason the pentagram got dumped in favor of the Cross is the King chose the cross as his royal sign and the people followed suit.

Likewise its all over the temples of Egypt for the same reason.

The old temples of the Latter day Saints have inverted Pentagrams on them to this day.

The Jews of old emulated the seal of Solomon, but did so with 5 points not six.

The association of the Pentagram with non-Christian belief,
and its modern "elemental" analysis, was introduced during
the revival of occultism in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The distinction between the point-upwards and point-downwards Pentagram forms became accentuated in the minds of Pagans. During this same time frame.

The use of the "inverted" Pentagram to denote evil is quite recent and first appears in the works of Eliphas Levi.
a priest/occultist. He is also the source of the "goat's head" glyph. Before this, neither orientation had evil connotations.
And the sad thing is... not even HE intended it quite that way, by all accounts. He was writing a theisis on Gargoyles, at least to start with.


Those who take on the personal ethical code of Wicca the Wiccan Rede of "An it harm none, do what you will" do not wish to be lumped together with the Satanists whose philosophy tends to be of the domination of the spirit
by the physical body - the priority of matter and physical existence, which is just another way of looking at the world.

The pentagram has long been believed to be a potent protection against evil, a symbol of conflict that shields the wearer and their home.


There is much information on the Pentagram, this is but a short list.

Answer 7

Depends on what you consider Satanic. The pentagram is an ancient symbol, much older than anything Christianity has. Its so old that no one is sure when or where it originated.

Satanists coopting the symbol is a relatively new thing.

For millenia its a symbol thats been used in Pagan religions. Pagan DOES NOT equal Satanic.

Answer 8

I don't know, but I wish they would stop. They give it a bad image.

Answer 9

its how they contact satan