{"id":1921,"date":"2022-02-22T23:47:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T23:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2022-03-02T06:53:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T06:53:19","slug":"pentagram-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/pentagram-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagram\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Pentagram-.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4963\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The pentagram, perhaps the most well-known esoteric symbol of all time, may also be traced back to ancient Sumeria. It was an ideogram used to characterize Merovingian Kings as &#8220;lofty ones&#8221; or &#8220;shining ones&#8221; in Sumerian pictographic writing, and it was portrayed inverted. The pentagram&#8217;s link with dark magic is most likely due to the fact that these kings were supposed to have magical abilities, making it both a symbol of their dynasty and a symbol of their doctrine. This explains why the Cathars placed such a high value on a supposedly Satanic symbol, and why it appears prominently in images related with the Grail mystery, Rennes-le-Chateau, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pentagram, perhaps the most well-known esoteric symbol of all time, may also be traced back to ancient Sumeria. It was an ideogram used to characterize Merovingian Kings as &#8220;lofty ones&#8221; or &#8220;shining ones&#8221; in Sumerian pictographic writing, and it was portrayed inverted. The pentagram&#8217;s link with dark magic is most likely due to the &#8230; <a title=\"Pentagram\u00a0\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/pentagram-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Pentagram\u00a0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}