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To: wideawake
In that pre-Christian milieu the "pentacle" was not a known symbol.

Oh, balls. There isn't a geometrical shape in the world that hasn't been used as a symbol for something since antiquity.

32 posted on 04/23/2007 2:25:57 PM PDT by Grut
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To: Grut
Oh, balls. There isn't a geometrical shape in the world that hasn't been used as a symbol for something since antiquity.

There are two questions here:

(1) Is "Wicca" the ancient religion of the pre-Christian British Isles, or a new invention of a recent vintage? The answer is: a new invention.

(2) Was the ancient religion of the pre-Christian British Isles ever known to use "pentacles" as a symbol, or are the earliest documented users of this geometrical pattern Mediterranean Jewish students of the Zohar? Answer: the first people to use this symbol were of a different religion than the pre-Christian British and lived almost one thousand years after them.

34 posted on 04/23/2007 2:36:01 PM PDT by wideawake
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