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SYMBOL AND SYMBOLISM -PART TWO
Symbols have always taken part, since forever, in the mankind everyday’s life. Everything around us is composed by symbols we are forced to identify and to translate because only with this we can be able to understand the message that has been sent to us, rediscovering the meaning of an object hidden to the eyes of everybody.
For centuries the symbolists have tried to give a sense to the symbols, either they were objects or hey were words, and to give them back the original meaning, primarily changed during the centuries for convenience. Rivers of words have been written and, in the modern era, there also have also been made movies that have, as common denominator, the discovery of secrets, very often inconvenient, hidden behind small symbolic objects.
We don't exactly know, still today, what the past generations wanted indeed to communicate us, the fact remains that, the most important thing , it is to make justice and to give back ' honour ' to those signs that have been wrongly labelled for centuries, as negative symbols or however voted to divinity that the many define evil. And it's funny because the greatest part of the symbols we today know and which an adverse sense has been attributed, in reality they were made to thank the benevolent divinities as, for instance, Mother Nature. The clearest occultation of the truth, as it would perhaps say the agent Mulder of X Files, it is with no doubt the one applied to the pentacle, symbol of which we will speak soon. The one who wrote the "malleus maleficarum" has done indeed a good job!
The Celtic cross
The Celtic cross also called Wheel of the Sun, 
cruciform Ring, Seal of the druids or druidic cross. And it's, perhaps, the most famous symbol in absolute and it is surely the most used in different civilizations. There are different associated meanings to this symbol. Some believe that the circle is the female lunar symbol and the enrolled cross in it is the masculine solar symbol. But it also represents the tree of life with the four elements united to the fifth one, the circle, that it is the symbol of the energy. In this symbol is contained the divine power , intended as spiritual force of the earth and of the nature, the microcosm and the macrocosm united and interacting to maintain in perfect equilibrium the life itself. But during the centuries this symbol has been identified to the neofascist grouping, at first in France, then in Belgium and in Italy, completely erasing the original meaning.
The Pentacle
The pentacle is made by a pentagram reinscribed into a circle. Largely utilized in the pagan cults, the pentacle was a beloved symbol for the pagan goddess Venus; goddess of beauty and mystical sexuality. The pentacle, nevertheless, has even more ancient origins. It was in use by the Egyptians because the hieroglyph that symbolizes the kingdom of afterlife (Duat) is nothing more than a star with five tips upturned and deposed into a circle. It represents the macrocos
m and the microcosm (as the Celtic cross just quoted above) and the five points represent the 5 fundamental elements for the existence of any form of life: water, fire, air, earth and spirit. The point is turned upward because it represents the spirit and it symbolizes the relationship that must intervene between the material world and the spirit. And what if it were turned downward? Many symbolists have discussed about it and they have come to the conclusion that, if turned downward, the pentacle assumes a negative meaning and, therefore, is referable to the Malignant one. Being again wrong themselves. Because the downward turned pentacle symbolizes that the matter (in this case the points of fire and water) has predominance on the spirit. Nothing wrong in the end, don’t you think? The Pentacle has been more recently associated to the Vitruvian man of Leonardo Da Vinci ‘cause, it is enough evident, that the pentagram represents, approximately , a human body with arms and legs wide open . And not only this. The Pentacle represents the five chivalrous virtues the Knights Templar have to respect , at first nobled and then denied by their same Church: Charity, Courtesy, Chastity, Chivalrie and Compassion. It also represents the 5 wounds of Christ, two on the wrists, two on the feet and one on the thorax indeed.
However the pentacle was anyway a symbol of pagan origins and, with the diffusion of the Christianity, it has unjustly been associated to the dark forces when dark it was only the intention of who have made it become a symbol of evil, hiding to the eyes of all its true identity.
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