My last post on my tree of thoughts featured a picture of my great grandmother named Hadassah (aka Hattie.) I found her picture in some scans of my father’s old slides. I had gone through his slides and selected many to scan and copy onto a compact disc so he could view them as a slideshow. He was beginning to suffer from dementia, and I wanted him to remember his family as long as he could. I did this back in the fall of 2007. He passed away in June of 2013. I made other CDs for the rest of my family.
We had gone to the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. I am not sure which year we attended. I had scanned slides of the Unisphere, the Rocket Thrower (which was a large bronze statue), and this picture which features my mother, brother, sister and myself. Behind us you can see part of the Chrysler exhibit featuring a pentagram inside a pentagon. They called this logo a Pentastar. Their marketing under this new logo was extremely successful.
The Pentastar reminded me of a starfish. A five pointed star is everywhere in nature. Here is another example of humans profiting off of nature’s design. It happens all the time. And nature copies itself repeatedly. Written history claims that Pythagoras brought the five pointed star to the prominent position it holds today.
The starfish you see here in this picture were inherited from my mother-in-law. I took this picture with my phone today. I wanted to show how when you turn the starfish over you can see the Chrysler star very clearly, and the only difference is the background is another star rather than a pentagon.
Another example of a pentagram in nature is an apple. If you cut an apple in half along its equator then the patterns of the seeds is revealed… a perfect five-pointed star or pentagram.
The pentagram has been adopted by many different groups and given many different meaning.
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