The Pentacle:
It is one of the oldest symbols on earth, used over four thousand years before Christ.
Symbols carry different meanings in different settings. Primarily, the pentacle is a pagan religious symbol.
Who are Pagans?
Nowadays, the term pagan had become almost synonymous with devil worship a gross misconception.
The word’s roots actually reached back to the Latin paganus, meaning country-dwellers. “Pagans” were literally unindoctrinated country-folk who clung to the old, rural religions of Nature worship. In fact, so strong was the Church’s fear of those who lived in the rural villes that the once innocuous word for “villager” villain came to mean a wicked soul.
What is Pentacle then?
The pentacle is a pre-Christian symbol that relates to Nature worship. The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced, there was chaos.
This pentacle is representative of the female half of all things a concept religious historians call the ‘sacred feminine’ or the ‘divine goddess.’
The pentacle symbolizes Venus the goddess of female sexual love and beauty. Early religion was based on the divine order of Nature. The goddess Venus and the planet Venus were one and the same. The goddess had a place in the night time sky and was known by many names Venus, the Eastern Star, Ishtar, Astarte all of them powerful female concepts with ties to Nature and Mother Earth.
Pentacle’s most astonishing property is the graphic origin of its ties to Venus. The planet Venus traced a perfect pentacle across the ecliptic sky every four years. So astonished were the ancients to observe this phenomenon, that Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games’ spirit of inclusion and harmony.
Thank you, Hollywood:
The five-pointed star was now a virtual cliche in Satanic serial killer movies, usually scrawled on the wall of some Satanist’s apartment along with other alleged demonic symbology. Despite what you see in the movies, the pentacle’s demonic interpretation is historically inaccurate. The original feminine meaning is correct, but the symbolism of the pentacle has been distorted over the millennia. In this case, through bloodshed.
Role of the Church:
Symbols are very resilient, but the pentacle was altered by the early Roman Catholic Church. As part of the Vatican‘s campaign to eradicate pagan religions and convert the masses to Christianity, the Church launched a smear campaign against the pagan gods and goddesses, recasting their divine symbols as evil.
This is very common in times of turmoil. A newly emerging power will take over the existing symbols and degrade them over time in an attempt to erase their meaning. In the battle between the pagan symbols and Christian symbols, the pagans lost; Poseidon’s trident became the devil’s pitchfork, the wise crone’s pointed hat became the symbol of a witch, and Venus’s pentacle became a sign of the devil.
Latest perversion:
Unfortunately, the United States military has also perverted the pentacle; it’s now our foremost symbol of war. We paint it on all our fighter jets and hang it on the shoulders of all our generals.” So much for the goddess of love and beauty.
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