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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:26:04 -0500
- From: Daniel Patrick Schanbacher <ds7o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: Green pentagonal pentacles? (was Re: wearing pagan/pentacle jewelry)
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- Excerpts from netnews.alt.pagan: 19-Jan-93 Re: Green pentagon pentacle..
- Janis Maria Cortese@skid (808)
-
- > How many letters are in the alphabet they code" If there are 25 or
- > fewer, then five marks falls out quite naturally, without necessitating
- > any mystical correspondence.
-
- Well, there are in fact 25 letters in the ogham alphabet. But they are
- broken up into 5 groups of 5
- carvings (3 groups of 5 for the purpose of divination), so there must
- be some mystic numerology
- significance somewhere. Also, one of the letters, the 5th i think,
- actually is associated with the
- pentacle, at least in the version i have. the version i have, used by
- celtic druids, is supposedly 2500
- years old, which is pretty recent considering how much earlier other
- cultures use it. The oldest
- culture to use it seems to be Sumerian.
-
- But how did the pentacle make its way from Sumeria to the Celts? Or,
- since its such a fundamental
- symbol, did it spontaneously get generated, say, among the Pictish
- peoples? How/when did the
- pentacle get to Ireland?
-
- BTW, ive been told its possible to take lots of copper wire, and
- bend/wrap it into a pentagonal pentacle,
- then soak it in water till it turns green. but im not an artist, and im
- afraid whatever i make that
- way will fall apart, so im still looking. any tips appreciated.
-
- --- Dan "an outlex between the lines
- of Ragonar Blaubarb ant Horrild Hairwire" Shem
-