9 World Chronicles

A pentagram is a five pointed star. Traditionally, the five points of the star represent the four elements (Earth, Water, Fire, and Air) and Spirit.

Pentacle or pentagram. A geometric symbol of harmony health and Mystic powers. A five-pointed star with lines that cross to each point. When used in magical rituals design is usually called the pentacle.

The pentagram seems to have originate it in Mesopotamia approximately 4000 years ago probably as an astronomical plot of the movements of the planet Venus. It became a Sumerian and Egyptian stellar symbol is start to have been the figure used on the seal of King Solomon of Israel.

In Greece the Pythagoreans adopted it as an emblem of health and Mystic harmony the marriage of heaven and earth combining the number 2 terrestrial and feminine, and three heavenly and masculine.

 The resulting #5 symbol lives the microcosm of human body and mind. From this point on the pentagram steadily acquired Mystic meaning.

The pentagon is endless  sharing the symbolism of perfection and power of the circle. Five is a circular number as it produces itself in its last digit when raised to its own power.

 Gnostics and alchemist associated with the five elements, Christians with the 5 wounds of Christ. Medieval sorcerers with Solomon’s reputed powers over nature and the spiritual world.

Magicians sometimes wore pentacle caps of buying linen to conjure up supernatural help. In casting spells special powers were credited to pentacles drawn on Virgin caps can but they were also protectively inscribed in wood on rocks and on amulets or rings.

In Wicca and various forms of “white magic,” the encircled, upright pentagram is considered a symbol that provides protection of some kind. Pagan and neo-pagan groups use the pentagram in all manner of rituals and ornamentation because it symbolizes infinity, the binding of the five elements, and protection of the self.

With one point upward and two down the pentacle was the sign of white magic the druids foot. Representing the triumph of spirit over matter.

In Christian symbolism, the basic pentagram (without a circle) was originally used to represent the five wounds of Jesus Christ. It was soon supplanted by the symbol of the cross, but the pentagram was still recognizable as a Christian symbol for a few hundred years after Jesus’ resurrection. Some say that the continuous line was also considered symbolic of the Alpha and Omega.

 With one point down and two up It represented the goatsfoot and horns of the devil a characteristic symbolic inversion. inverted pentagram represents the descent of spirit into matter.

 Latin or kabbalistic Hebrew letters often appear on talismanic pentacles drawn within protective circles. The Pensacola was also a Masonic aspirational symbol known as the flaming star.

The pentagram was used in ancient Chinese and Japanese religions to symbolize the five elements of life. In Japanese culture the symbol was also considered magical. Ancient Babylonian culture was also using the pentagram to represent various gods and religious beliefs of their own.

Historical associations of the pentagram include the five senses, the five fingers, the five wounds of Christ, and astrological representation of the five planets: Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, and Venus.

The Ant

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period, and diversified after the rise of flowering plants. It is estimated that there are roughly 22 thousand species of ant.

Ant society have a division of labor, communication between individuals, and the ability to solve complex problems

A symbol of diligence, patience, humility and foresight. In China, the  ant symbolized order and the tireless servant.

Its industry seen in the bible as a virtue is considered somewhat excessive in Hindu and Buddhist thought, thus becoming a symbol of the ceaseless, petty activity of those blind to the transience of human life.

In Mali ants were the beneficent organizers, originators of the skills of building and weaving and by the sympathetic magic their nest could bring fecundity.

Anteaters conversely symbolism harm and chaos.

In Greek mythology the Myrmidons were a nest of ants that Zeus transformed into humans. They were said to be among the most fierce and efficient armies in Greece.

In some southwestern tribes, ants played a more important mythological role-- in the Cahuilla creation myth, it was ants who spread the earth out for people ant animals to live upon, and in Hopi mythology, it was the Ant People who sheltered humans underground during the destruction of the First World.

In northern California tribes, ants were said to predict earthquakes, and it was considered taboo to disturb their nests. In South America, ants are more often portrayed as warriors in Indian legends, probably because of the painful sting inflicted by South American fire ants, and some Native South American initiation rites involve young people subjecting themselves to ant bites.

there are some southwestern tribes with Ant Clans, including the Hopi, Pueblo, and Akimel O'odham (Pima) tribes. Ant groupings were particularly important among the Pimas, where the people of every Pima village used to be divided into one Red Ant Clan and one White Ant Clan. The Cherokee also have an Ant Dance among their tribal dance traditions.

The Ant  is credited in North African myths with teaching the first humans about the uses of plants and grains.

The Berber and Kabyl tribes have a myth that tells the story of the wise ant that helped the first humans. Teaching them to cook grains in spring water. gave them directions for grinding the grain into flour. he showed them how to start a fire with stones, dried grass and wood, and a flint stone. The Ants taught them to bake bread.

It was the ant that directed man to save seeds and to plant them in the rainy season.

In the mythology of the Kuba People of Conga Nyonye Ngaga, the eldest son of the creator god Bumba, is the creator of the humble ant.

He made billions of ants and died of fatigue. His effort would be the standard for ants work ethic.

 the ants were grateful to Nyonye Ngana for making them, and scurried into the earth to give him a decent burial. They’ve been busy doing that ever since.

colonies consist of various castes of sterile, wingless females, most of which are workers (ergates), as well as soldiers (dinergates) and other specialised groups. Nearly all ant colonies also have some fertile males called "drones" and one or more fertile females called "queens" (gynes). The colonies are described as superorganisms because the ants appear to operate as a unified entity, collectively working together to support the colony.

Ants have colonised almost every landmass on Earth. Ants thrive in most ecosystems and may form 15–25% of the terrestrial animal biomass.

The symbolism of the bull. Power potency fecundity, a protein symbol of divinity royalty and the elemental forces of nature.

 changing in significance between different epochs and cultures. In cave art the bull is second only to the horse as the most frequently painted image of vital energy.

As the incarnation of many Supreme eastern gods the bull was one of the most important sacrificial animals.

In ritual and iconography it has represented both the moon and the sun earth and the Sky rain and heat feminine procreation and male ardor.  Both death and regeneration.

As a symbol of death and resurrection it is central to mithraism a Persian cult popular in the Roman Empire. Myth rack sacrifices celebrated the sun God mithras slaughter of a primordial bull from whose blood and ***** spraying new life.

Bulls appear from northern Europe to India as an emblem of divine power especially linked with lunar solar and sky or storm gods including the Mesopotamia and EL who is bull horned and bow . The Egyptians Ra, Ausar,  Ptah who was incarnated as the sacred apis bull and Seth .

The Greek Zeus Dionysus and  Seibel. The Norse Thor and Freya . And the Hindu Indra Aditi,  Agni,  Rudra and Shiva.

Tibetan Buddhism has the bull headed fierce deity protector Yama Dharmaraja

The physical attributes of the bull underline much of its symbolism. Its horns or link with the Crescent moon its strength suggests a support for the world in Vedic and Islamic traditions it's prolific semanis stored by the moon in Persian myth.

 and its colossal dangerous energy was widely venerated notably in Minoan Crete. Were a dangerous ritualistic sport involved somersaulting over a bull's horns developed

The orchestrated ritual of modern bull fighting continues an ancient Mediterranean tradition of using the bull to flirt with death.

Crete is a setting of numerous later Greek bull miss most famously of the monstrous half man half bull the minotaur.

Zeus transformed himself into a bull in order to abduct Europia carrying her to Crete. A bull is thus one of the attributes of Zeus and may also symbolize the continent of Europe.

 A former beast the bull from ancient times became adversaries as well as icons. Challenging its power was a task of legendary heroes such as Heracles who captured another cretin bull as his 7th labor an fought Acilius in the guise of a bull.

 And Theseus who slew the minotaur.

The Bull of Heaven was a pawn of the goddess Inanna, and the vessel of her rage against the demi god Gilgamesh. She unleashed the bull on Earth, and he began a path of devastation. He was killed by Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu.

Black is the darkest color, complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, a color without hue, like white and gray.

Black is associated with fertility, magic and elegance.

Black ink is the most common color used for printing books, newspapers and documents, as it provides the highest contrast with white paper and thus the easiest color to read.

Black was one of the first colors used in art. The Lascaux Cave in France contains drawings of bulls and other animals drawn by paleolithic artists between 18,000 and 17,000 years ago.

For the ancient Egyptians, black had a special meaning, being the color of fertility and the rich black soil flooded by the Nile. It was the color of Anubis, the god of the underworld, who took the form of a black jackal, and offered protection against evil to the dead.

Ausar, who is credited with spreading sacred knowledge, is call the perfect black.

The word Khem, meant black or blackness. AS the root word of Chemistry, we understand this to mean the black arts or black study.

It has been argued that the Khemites were thus calling themselves the Black People.

Black symbolized both power and secrecy in the medieval world. The emblem of the Holy Roman Empire of Germany was a black eagle. The black knight in the poetry of the Middle Ages was an enigmatic figure, hiding his identity, usually wrapped in secrecy.

A black pigment can, however, result from a combination of several pigments that collectively absorb all colors. Black is the absorption of all colors of light, or an exhaustive combination of multiple colors of pigment.

In elementary science, far ultraviolet light is called "black light" because, while itself unseen, it causes many minerals and other substances to fluoresce.

As of September 2019, the darkest material is made from vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. The material was grown by MIT engineers and was reported to have a 99.995% absorption rate of any incoming light. This surpasses any former darkest materials including Vantablack, which has an peak absorption rate of 99.965% in the visible spectrum

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. The theory of general relativity predicts that when a star runs of out gas and begins to collapse  a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. It is called "black" because it absorbs all the light that hits the horizon, reflecting nothing, just like a perfect black body in thermodynamics.

After a black hole has formed it can continue to grow by absorbing mass from its surroundings. By absorbing other stars and merging with other black holes, supermassive black holes of millions of solar masses may form. There is general consensus that supermassive black holes exist in the centers of most galaxies.

In China, the color black is associated with water, one of the five fundamental elements believed to compose all things.

In Japan black can also symbolize experience, as opposed to white, which symbolizes naiveté. The black belt in martial arts symbolizes experience.

In Christian theology, black was the color of the universe before God created light. In many religious cultures, from Mesoamerica to Oceania to India and Japan, the world was created out of a primordial darkness.

In Hinduism, the goddess Kali, goddess of time and change, is portrayed with black or dark blue skin. wearing a necklace adorned with severed heads and hands. Her name means "The black one". She destroys anger and passion according to Hindu mythology and her devotees are supposed to abstain from meat or intoxication.

In Paganism, black represents dignity, force, stability, and protection. The color is often used to banish and release negative energies.

Black is frequently used as a color of power, law and authority. In many countries judges and magistrates wear black robes

Black formal attire is still worn at many solemn occasions or ceremonies, from graduations to formal balls. Graduation gowns are copied from the gowns worn by university professors in the Middle Ages, which in turn were copied from the robes worn by judges and priests, who often taught at the early universities. The mortarboard hat worn by graduates is adapted from a square cap called a biretta worn by Medieval professors and clerics.

Black Panther symbolism is inevitably linked to a protector, a guardian, or a savior.

The names cougar, puma, panther, Black Panther, leopard, and mountain lion are often used interchangeably as they all belong to the class of animals grouped under the term ‘Panthera.’

The Black Panther is a melanistic leopard found in the moist, dense forests.

The Egyptian Goddess Mafdel took on the appearance of a panther and is invoked even today as the destroyer of snakes and scorpions. Thus, much of the Black Panther symbolism is linked to protection and guardianship.

Egyptian priests supposedly wore leopard and panther skins when performing funerary rites.

The symbolism of the black panther was used by the American Political Party of the 1960

In India, the caste system used the Black Panther Movement in America to form the Dalit Panthers –

The Dahomey God Agassu is a product of union between a panther and a Tado princess. Agassu became the founder of the royal line of Abomey.

Panther and leopard symbolism is also found in conjunction with the rulers of Cameroon Grasslands and Kongo. In fact, one of the many symbols of the power of the ruling Obas of Benin is a panther.

In the Iroquois mythology of North American Indians, the God of the West Wind is Dajoji – a panther or jaguar. When he snarls, even the sun hides his face.

Onyx, raven , ebony, melanoid, infinite, obsidian, sable,

The African Diaspora identifies itself with the term black.

Black is beautiful.

Black is infinite.

It is black culture, black awareness and black love.

Black is a color, a cosmological event and ideology, a people and a state of begin.

It is both the combination of all others and the absence of them.