What is the maning of a pentagram?

Question

What does the upside down version mean? What does the right side up version mean? Whats the 5 pointed one mean? Whats the 6 pointed one mean?

When you're answering please if you are going to get your answer from referencs such as books would you please post the book title and author so I may look into the book or books myself.

What does the 6 sided star mean?

heared that the position of the triangle in a pentagram has something to do with a persons intation or rank or something like that in wicca. Can some one enlighten me?

Answer 1

A pentagram (sometimes known as pentalpha or pentangle) is the shape of 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 neopagan faiths wear jewelry incorporating the symbol. Christians once more commonly used the pentagram to represent the five wounds of Jesus,[1][2] 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.

The word "pentacle" is sometimes used synonymously with "pentagram", although their technical usages are different, and their etymologies may be unrelated.


The unicursal hexagram is a hexagram or six sided and six pointed star that is unique in that it can be traced or drawn as one complete symbol, rather than two overlaid triangles. This is significant as the triangles are often used to represent opposites such as fire and water or male and female. The unifying of the symbol into one represents the union of opposites.

The unicursal hexagram is so-called because it can be drawn unicursally - that is, in one continuous movement. This is significant when forming figures in ritual magick, where a continuous line is preferred to an interrupted movement.

The unicursal hexagram was created for the purpose of drawing the figure in one continuous movement, as the other magical polygons are created- the pentagram is one example. This is significant in ritual magick when invoking and banishing hexagrams must be made.



The Sigil of Baphomet has its origins in accusations of demonic worship by the medieval Knights Templar.

It is also the official insignia for the Church of Satan, chosen by Dr. Anton Szandor LaVey. Satanists who follow the philosophies of LaVey often adorn themselves with the sigil.

The Hebrew letters at each of the points of the pentagram read "לִוְיָתָן" starting from the lowest point and reading counter-clockwise. Translated, this is Leviathan (LVYTN), a sea creature figuring in Judaic mythology. Leviathan has many complex meanings, many of which apply to its use in the Sigil of Baphomet. Leviathan is commonly associated with Satan, and the fourth book of the Satanic Bible is named the Book of Leviathan.

Although versions of the Sigil of Baphomet appear as early as the 1897 book “La Clef de la Magie Noire” by Stanislas de Guaita, the variant in common use today was designed for use by the Church of Satan, and is known as the Hell's Kitchen Baphomet. This variant is copyrighted by the Church of Satan and cannot legally be reproduced without permission. Historic variants are in the public domain.

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Answer 2

Penta is 5, so a pentagram has five elements. I feel a six pointed celebrity is a hexagram. When a pentagram is stood on a factor, it symbolizes a bull or goat. The downward factor, is it is chin. The subsequent 2 elements up,are it is ears. The most sensible 2 elements are it is horns. Of direction the six sided celebrity is the celebrity of David. I'm definite regardless that it represents many different matters.

Answer 3

The 6 pointed "star of david" is 2 symbols. The upward triangle is a male symbol. Downward triangle is a female symbol. Together, they symbolize unity.

Answer 4

The V (female) and the inverted V (male) form the pentagram which represents the union of male and female.