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Description

The Pythagoreans used this symbol as a secret sign to recognize each other. It represents the number five, and life, power and invulnerability.

Source

Hemenway, Priya – Divine Proportion pp.56, Sterling Publishing, ISBN 1-4027-3522-7

Date

August 2006

Author

Jossi

Permission
(Reusing this image)

public domain


Pentagram inscribed within Vesica Piscis configuration (two circles of equal diameter, the center of each being on the circumference of the other).

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