Looking for a pentacle

[Nancy Laird]

This may sound like a strange request, but I've had a request from a customer for a pentacle cut from acrylic. Does anyone have a vector for one?

TIA.

Nancy (105 days)

[Joe Pelonio]

Just the simple shape, like this??

[Shane Turner]

Joe, almost. That was a Hexacle.

A Pentacle has 5 points. 71449

[Joe Pelonio]

Joe, almost. That was a Hexacle.

A Pentacle has 5 points. 71449

:rolleyes: oops!

[Niklas Bjornestal]

Joe, almost. That was a Hexacle.

A Pentacle has 5 points. 71449
According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacle

Pentacles, despite the sound of the word, often had no connotation of "five" in the old magical texts, but were, rather, magical talismans inscribed with any symbol or character.
There is also some images of pentacles at wikipedia.

[Frank Corker]

The relationship between the words pentacle and pentagram (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram) (a five-point unicursal star (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian_path)) is unclear. The Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) treats the two as apparently synonymous, but notes that the actual history of pentacle is obscure. In an extended use, many magical authors treat them as distinct. In modern Tarot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot) decks and in some forms of modern witchcraft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft), pentacles often prominently incorporate a pentagram in their design.

My guess is that Nancy is a witch. I'm going to get my torch!


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[Frank Corker]

Nancy I really don't know if these are what you are looking for but see if they are any use to you.

[Nancy Laird]

My guess is that Nancy is a witch. I'm going to get my torch!.

:D :D Not me, Frank, Not me. I'm just a 61-year-old WASP who has managed to have not just one, but TWO, Wiccan children. No torches needed.

The pentacle is a five-point star (like the ones you learned to draw when you were small), sometimes represented inside a circle. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Pentacle_2.svg/200px-Pentacle_2.svg.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pentacle_2.svg)

The five points represent spirit, water, fire, earth, and air. This is a symbol of faith to Wiccans. According to Wikipedia, the classical elements are a key feature of the Wiccan world-view. Every manifest force or form is seen to express one of the four archetypal elements -- earth, air, fire, and water-— or several in combination. The five points of the frequently worn pentacle symbolize, among other things, the four elements with spirit presiding at the top.

Wiccans are NOT witches and/or warlocks, although the religion is believed to have evolved from ancient witchcraft. For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiccan. This article, http://www.wicca.com/celtic/wicca/wicca.htm, is a much more reader-friendly explanation.

When my daughter married over 3 years ago, she had a hand-fasting rather than a traditional wedding, and although it was very different and not at all what mainstream religions would refer to as a wedding, it was also very moving and quite audience-participatory. It incorporated such elements as the crowning of the bridal couple, a literal tying of the hands for a portion of the ceremony, and a "jumping of the broom" by the couple. Wiccan priests and priestesses can and are empowered by most states to perform marriage ceremonies, as they are considered in the same category as Protestant ministers, Catholic priests, Jewish rabbis, etc.

Thanks Joe and Frank for your efforts.

Nancy (104 days)

[Darren Null]

Not me, Frank, Not me. I'm just a 61-year-old WASP who has managed to have not just one, but TWO, Wiccan children. No torches needed.
We've got to burn somebody- I've bought the marshmallows now.

I was reading somewhere that all the 'suffer thou not a witch to live' stuff was actually a mistranslation of the word 'poisoner', so all those people could have been barbequeued in vain. Don't know how true that is- my Aramaic is a little *cough* rusty.

[Bill Cunningham]

Hmmm Just my luck, all the naked dancing around the fire is myth too! :mad: I wondered how they protect their 'dangles'?
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Dangles are the little commemorative disks that hand down from the dancers name badges, I make lots of them...
What did you think I meant? :D