Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet PENTAGRAM

Definition av PENTAGRAM

1. (matematik, religion) pentagram

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• The album caused controversy due to its profane lyrics, and liner notes containing a Wiccan pentagram and reference to "Salem witches", minus a Parental Advisory warning label.
• The most common and symmetric plane drawing of the Petersen graph, as a pentagram within a pentagon, has five crossings.
• A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon.
• The mystical symbol of the central five-pointed star referred to in the West as a pentagram, is known in Japan as the Seiman, the Seal of Abe no Seimei, or the Seimei Kikyō (晴明紋 / 晴明桔梗); this pentacle was originally the personal seal of Abe-no-Seimei, later becoming the symbol for the Onmyōryō (the government ministry department for the practice of Onmyōdō, or the Bureau of Taoist Geomancy) and for Onmyōdō itself, given its association with the Chinese Five Elements.
• In the Middle Ages, mystical powers were attributed to the pentagram and hexagram, which were used in talismans against evil spirits.
• The first murder victim is found spread-eagled inside a pentagram, surrounded by the trappings of black magic.
• He reveals to Faust that although the misshapen pentagram carved into Faust's doorway has allowed him to enter, he cannot leave.
• The Escutcheon shows a pentagram symbolising health, with a wavy and zigzag line conveying the movement of dancing.
• When a demon named Ornias harasses a young man (who is favored by Solomon) by stealing half of his pay and sucking out his vitality through the thumb on his right hand, Solomon prays in the temple and receives from the archangel Michael a magic ring with the seal of God (in the shape of a pentagram) on it which will enable him to command the demons.
• The Romani fortuneteller, Bela, sees a pentagram when he examines Jenny's palm, and frantically sends her away.
• The pentagram plays an important symbolic role in the 14th-century English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which the symbol decorates the shield of the hero, Gawain.
• The symbol itself is the equivalent of the ancient Egyptian Ankh, or the Rosicrucian's Rosy Cross; which represents the microcosmic forces (the pentacle, representation of the pentagram with five elements, the Pentagrammaton, YHSVH or Yahshuah) interweave with the macro-cosmic forces (the hexagram, the representation of the planetary or heavenly cosmic forces, the divine).
• It reflects the integration of various esoteric principles, such as the union of the five-fold pentagram (microcosm) with the six-fold hexagram (macrocosm), resulting in the complete manifestation of the Rosy Cross.
• While the eponymous Baphomet had been depicted as a goat-headed figure since at least 1856, the goat's head inside an inverted pentagram was largely popularized by the modern Church of Satan.
• Blue Star practitioners include music in their ritual and liturgy along with ritual feasting, the use of a septegram as a symbol rather than a pentagram, and initiatory tattooing.
• If the pentagrammic faces are considered as 5 triangular faces, it shares the same surface topology as the pentakis dodecahedron, but with much taller isosceles triangle faces, with the height of the pentagonal pyramids adjusted so that the five triangles in the pentagram become coplanar.
• The great stellated dodecahedron can be constructed analogously to the pentagram, its two-dimensional analogue, by attempting to stellate the n-dimensional pentagonal polytope which has pentagonal polytope faces and simplex vertex figures until it can no longer be stellated; that is, it is its final stellation.

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