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Comment by Adisa on November 10, 2015 at 2:29pm

Comment by Adisa on November 10, 2015 at 2:21pm

The Pentagram has also been depicted as the Seal of Solomon or Sh'lomoh.  

More recently known as the Star of David.

This seals or symbols are a combination of two equilateral triangles also known as a Hexagram or Sexagram, also known in Geometry as a hexagon.  

In alchemy the triangle is the symbol for fire or pyr as used in the word Pyramid.

In alchemy the inverted triangle is a symbol for water.The inverted triangle is also the symbol for the womb or the yoni, from these waters life emerges.  The combination of the two triangles in alchemy mean balance.    

Comment by Adisa on October 20, 2015 at 12:53pm

Pre-Islamic Arabian Diety Athtar
Attar (Aramaic); Athtar (South Arabia); Astar (Abyssinia); Ashtar (Moab); Ashtar(t) (Canaan); Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian)^[1] is the god of the morning star in western Semiticmythology. In Canaanite legend, he attempts to usurp the throne of the dead god Baal Hadad but proves inadequate. In semi-arid regions of western Asia he was sometimes worshipped as a rain god. His female counterpart is the Phoenician Astarte.

Comment by Adisa on August 26, 2014 at 1:47pm

As I continued to look at this, I am trying to see a link with Easter.  I have read there is a connection, however I wanted to true the information as best I could.  What I just noticed in the word e(aster), E derived from the heiroglyph of a man shouting and aster the Greek word for star.  Easter is now known as christian festival recognizing the resurrection of the christ.  Easter is held on the first Sunday after the date of the first full moon that occurs after March 21.  As I type this I also see east, the direction of the appearing sun. 

Etymologically, east in the Old High German language is ostan, in German it is ost, from osten, the Icelandic word is austr and in Latin it is aurora from ausosa meaning dawn and dawn is the first appearance of the morning light. 

Ēostre, Ostara or Austro was an early germanic diety who was honored with feasts during Ēosturmōnaþ, the month equivalent with April.  Hausos is another germanic goddess of spring an apparent bringer of light. 

Comment by Adisa on August 26, 2014 at 11:34am

Astaroth (also Ashtaroth, Astarot and Asteroth):  The name Astaroth was ultimately derived from that of 2nd millennium BC Phoenician goddess Astarte,^[1] an equivalent of the Babylonian Ishtar, and the earlier Sumerian Inanna.  Aster is also the Greek word for star.  It appears the pentagram is a symbol replicating  of the movement Venus makes in its orbit. 

Comment by Adisa on August 23, 2014 at 12:26pm

Astarte (Ancient Greek) is the Greek name of the Mesopotamian Semetic goddess Ishtar, known throughout the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from the early Bronze age to Classical times. It is one of a number of names associated with the chief goddess or female divinity of those peoples.

Astarte was connected with fertility, sexuality, and war. Her symbols were the lion, the horse, the sphinx, the dove, and a star within a circle indicating the planet Venus. Pictorial representations often show her naked. She has been known as the deified evening star.