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LovingTongue said:
What does that mean? Isn't that a pentagram?

Thats devil worshipping...thats not pagan...I don't approve of devil worshipping...:cool:
 
LovingTongue said:
What does that mean? Isn't that a pentagram?

I don't know what it means to anyone besides myself. It just looks pagan to me. A pentegram is just a pentacle spun 180%. They are both the same object viewed from different perspectives. The creature in the center, a goat, has been associated with old Greco-Roman pagan gods (Pan and the like) for thousands of years. The snake eating its tail, urobouros, symbolizes a ring, a circle, a never-ending cycle, and while it has many meanings in gnostic circles (who draw heavily on paganism, it seems) it symbolizes nature most to me: the neverending cycle of birth, death, and decay. I think the further back in history you go, the less separation you'd find between paganism and satanism, as the image of Satan appears to have been crafted specifically by the Church from pagan symbols partially as a way of winning against them in Western Europe, I would imagine, but I guess these days these two belief systems are so widely separated that I probably have made the equivelent of a posting faux-paux. Mea culpa, LT! It won't happen again...well, at least in this thread! ;)
 
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