
Pentagrams
Secretly Incredibly Fascinating
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The Origins of the Pentagram Shape
There's another use of pentagrams where some early astronomers used them as a symbol and also a map for the path of the planet Venus. And that meaning then became interesting culturally because some people started to apply cultural beliefs about Venus to the pentagram shape in a way that none of us think about, I think, today.
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