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<p>202.91.9.6: </p> <hr /> <div>rolcadarro<br /> A '''Pentagram''' is a ''[[mullet]] of five points voided and interlaced'', commonly used in [[period]] heraldry. A '''Pentacle''' is a similar [[symbol]], correctly [[blazon]]ed ''A mullet voided and interlaced within and conjoined to an annulet''. <br /> <br /> It can be found in [[Christian]] [[church]]es like Notre-Dame de [[Paris]] where it symbolizes the five points from which [[Christ]] bled on the [[cross]]. In the [[poem]] ''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', [[Sir]] [[Gawain]] bore a pentagram upon his [[shield]] and it was also used to represent many other things, e.g. the five [[knightly virtue]]s. <br /> <br /> Both the pentagram and the pentacle are used by modern [[Pagan]]s as a [[religious]] symbol, (usually with a single point upward) representing the Five Elements. However, the common usage of a reversed pentagram (two points upward) by Satanists has caused this [[charge]] to be added to the [[SCA]] [[College of Heralds]]' list of [[restricted charge]]s.<br /> <br /> [[category:device heraldry]]</div>

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