What's this tattoo called? What is the significance?

The pentacle was used in ancient Egypt as a symbol of the underworld womb, and in ancient Babylon as a symbol of Nephthys, the twin sister of the goddess Ishtar (goddess of the underworld). In Greek mythology, the pentagram was a symbol of Kore, the goddess of the earth; the Celts used the pentagram as a symbol of Morgan, the goddess of the underworld, and in Celtic lore, Gawain, the sun hero, painted the pentagram on his blood-red shield in honor of the goddess. The Pythagorean mystics also worshipped this symbol, referring to it as "the birth (writing) of the five interlaced returns." Thus, in the occult, the pentagram with its upward pointing corners represented "life" and "health", and was used as a magical symbol for praying for happiness, as a guardianship charm and as a symbol for the treatment of injuries and illnesses. Ancient Babylonians even painted the pentagram on food containers, believing that it would preserve freshness, and the first of the seven sacred seals of Babylon was the pentagram. The Jewish classics believe that these seals represent the secret names of the gods, and the pentagram is one of the most important, so the medieval warlocks fabricated "King Solomon's magic ring" is also engraved with the pentagram, because of this, the pentagram has also been misrepresented as the "Seal of Solomon The pentagram was also engraved on the "magic ring of King Solomon", which was invented by King Solomon. The pentagram also appeared on the seal of the angel Metatron, a symbol that includes a circular magical formation, a pentagram, and an incantation.

The pentagram drawn on the seal of the Archangel Midaron (Metatron).

In the so-called miniatures (mannequins) drawn by medieval alchemists, the outer circle represented the cosmos, and the inner part depicted a male figure with the head, hands, and feet corresponding to each of the five corners of the pentagram, and with the genitals in the center of the circle. Thus, the magicians believed that the human "microcosm" (see the "Tree of Life" item) was governed by the five stars.

Because the pentagram could be drawn with a single stroke, the ancients also superstitiously believed that it could protect against demons and evil spirits. In occult magical formations, the circle was used to protect the magician himself, while the pentagram was used to seal away demons, and the five intersections of the lines of the pentagram were believed to be "doors" that could seal demons in the pentagon in the center of the pentagram. Therefore, the Church called the pentagram the "Devil's Heraldry", the "Witch's Cross", the "Wizard's Star" and the "Witch's Foot". " and even claimed that the human wolf had the pentagram on his heel.

Slavic witches in Eastern Europe utilized this superstition to perform medical witchcraft known as "measuring the five stars," which requires the patient to stand in a "small universe" position (standing in a "big" zigzag), and then to stand in a "big" zigzag position. This witchcraft requires the patient to stand in the "small universe" position (standing in the shape of a "big" character), and then take a piece of twine and tie it around the ankle and connect it to the neck and then to the other foot, and then tie it to the middle finger of both hands, and finally form a pentagram. After the witch pretends to "calculate" some, the patient nonsense a disease, and then use a dagger to cut the hemp rope, take out a section of the fire and let the patient inhale the smoke emitted by burning. Finally, the witch sprinkled the ash in the water and let the patient take the water as medicine. This is basically similar to the tricks used by some godly witches to cheat people nowadays.

The inverted (pointed down) pentagram was used by the Neoplatonists as a symbol of the "five-horned god," representing the four horned creatures (male goat, male sheep, male cow, male deer) and humans, and is derived from the Indian Tantrism doctrine that the horns represent the male's "power" and are a means to achieve his goals. It originates from the Indian Tantrism doctrine that the horns represent male "power" and are a manifestation of the "flower of knowledge" (cf. the "hexagram"). This idol of the five-horned god, known to the Church as the demon Baphomet, generally appears in the form of a human with the head of a male goat and is hermaphroditic (see later under "Horns"), and has a pentagram hanging from its head (positively), and is the object of worship of a group of modern-day warlocks known as the Knights Templar of the East. "It is the object of worship of the modern group of warlocks, the Knights Templar of the East.

This is a passage from the Da Vinci Code

Original meaning of the pentagram:

This is the pentagram amulet of Wicca, one of the earliest symbols in the world, used before the fourth millennium BC. Symbols denote different meanings in different contexts, and the pentagram is primarily a pagan symbol, one that preceded the creation of Christianity and related to nature worship. The ancients believed that the world consisted of two parts - half male and half female. The pentagram represented the feminine half of everything - a concept that religious historians call the 'divine feminine' or 'divine goddess'. In its most specific interpretation, the pentagram symbolizes Venus - the goddess who represents womanhood and beauty. American horror movies clearly show that the pentagram is associated with demons as well, which is actually incorrect. Despite the interpretation of the pentagram as demonic, as seen in the movie, its initially feminine meaning is historically correct. But over the millennia, the symbolism of the pentagram has been distorted. Symbolism is very elastic and the meaning of the pentagram symbol was changed by the early Roman Catholic Church. As part of the Vatican's campaign to purge paganism and convert the masses to Christianity, the Catholic Church launched a campaign to vilify pagan gods and pagan goddesses by reinterpreting their sacred symbols as evil. This phenomenon was also common during the Age of Confusion, when an emerging force would replace existing symbols and chronically degrade them in an attempt to completely erase their meaning. In the battle between pagan and Christian symbols, the pagans lost. The trident of Poseidon became the devil's pitchfork, the conical peaked cap symbolizing wisdom became the witch's symbol, and the five horns of Venus became the symbol of evil. Unfortunately, the military also misinterpreted the pentagram, and it is now the most important symbol of war. Paint it on fighter jets and hang it on the shoulders of generals.

■But on the other hand, we have to admit that the pentagram is one of the simplest and most perfect of geometric patterns.

■In ancient Greece, people used a large circle in the pentagram, standing in a "large zigzag" pattern of a fit man, representing the human body's perfection, which at the same time is the "golden ratio" in the minds of artists at the time.

Many mathematicians, geometers and philosophers, both ancient and modern, have testified to its perfection in their own ways!

Not only do the armies of various countries like to use five-pointed stars, even the national flags of various countries have a lot of five-pointed stars. For example, the Chinese flag has five yellow five-pointed stars; the American flag has 50 white five-pointed stars ......