07-09-2006, 07:41 PM
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A. Naef, 1916b
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Re: Veteran's Affairs deny Wiccan burial
Most people when they think of a pentangle think Satanist (though again that shouldn't matter since still another religion) which is actually inverted downwards.
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According to Heather Child's Christian Symbols, Ancient and Modern[2], the pentagram is a symbol of the five senses. Also, when the letters S, A, L, V, and S are inscribed in the points, the pentagram is a symbol of health (Latin salūs).
The pentagram appears on the shield of Sir Gawain in the 14th Century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In the poem the five lines of the star are given multiple meanings: they represent the five senses, five fingers, the five wounds of Christ, 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: frankness, fellowship, purity, courtesy and compassion.
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