home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!news!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!sltg04.ljo.dec.com!boylan
- From: boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan)
- Subject: Re: Green pentagon pentacles? (was Re: wearing pagan/pentacle jewelry)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.151638.12916@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Lines: 48
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: boylan@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Steve Boylan)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1jdom8INNlq5@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> <ofKrGBi00VpCI3blgm@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:16:38 GMT
-
-
- Great Earth and Water! I'm gone for a week, and nobody else can
- answer a simple question?
-
- In article <ofKrGBi00VpCI3blgm@andrew.cmu.edu>, Daniel Patrick
- Schanbacher <ds7o+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
-
- > In the same vein, I am also looking for a Green Pentacle to wear
- > around my neck because I am an Irish Esperantist interested in
- > pagan symbology. (The Esperanto (international language) symbol
- > is a green star.) So what I wd like MOST is a green pentacle with a
- > pentagon rather than a circle around it. This is technically not a
- > pentacle. What is it? Has anyone seen one of these ever, green or no,
- > and know what it means? It wd probably only mean something to
- > me, since I havent seen it anywhere but in my head.
-
- (Ah, I just LOVE a challenge!)
-
- "Technically", anything with 5 points/lobes/anything can be described
- as a "pentacle".
-
- But linguists debate over the derivation of the word "pentacle". Some
- hold that it's derived from "5-sided", while others hold that it's
- derived from the same roots as "pendant", something that hangs down.
- If one follows the latter derivation, anything you'd hang around your
- neck could be described as a "pentacle".
-
- That usage, however, is obscure today, and, if you use the word that
- way, people will look at you funny.
-
- I HAVE seen jewelry sold locally with both designs - a pentagram
- (five-pointed star) inscribed in a pentagon as well as within a
- circle. Nearly all of those I've seen were silver, although I
- seem to recall a green button with a pentagram inside a pentagon
- drawn in black.
-
-
- Well, okay, so maybe it wasn't so simple a question . . .
-
- :-)
-
- - - Steve
-
-
-
- --
- Don't miss the 49th New England Folk Festival,
- April 23-25, 1993 in Natick, Massachusetts!
-