| heptagram Jul 31st 2011, 02:00 Noun: +1995 cite: a non-mystic discussing an ancient symbol that in modern use has become mystical | ← Older revision | Revision as of 02:00, 31 July 2011 | | Line 8: | Line 8: | | | #*: [http://books.google.com/books?id=1akAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=heptagram page 15]: The exercise may be varied by tracing the '''Heptagram''', <!--[sic] capitalization--> ''i. e.'', passing from one point to another of a regular Heptagon in this order — 1, 4, 7, 3, 6, 2, 5, 1. | | #*: [http://books.google.com/books?id=1akAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA15&dq=heptagram page 15]: The exercise may be varied by tracing the '''Heptagram''', <!--[sic] capitalization--> ''i. e.'', passing from one point to another of a regular Heptagon in this order — 1, 4, 7, 3, 6, 2, 5, 1. | | | #*: [http://books.google.com/books?id=1akAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=heptagram page 81]: If the hand is stiff, it may be loosened and trained into tune with Nature's formative processes by the practice of drawing the Pentagram and '''Heptagram'''. | | #*: [http://books.google.com/books?id=1akAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81&dq=heptagram page 81]: If the hand is stiff, it may be loosened and trained into tune with Nature's formative processes by the practice of drawing the Pentagram and '''Heptagram'''. | | | + | #* '''1995''', Carl G. Liungman, ''Thought Signs: The Semiotics of Symbols: Western Idiograms'', IOS Press, ISBN 90-5199-197-5, [http://books.google.com/books?id=8s1Gl2X-DlgC&pg=PA347&dq=heptagram page 347]: | | | + | #*: It was with the adoption and widespread use of the seven-day week throughout the Hellenistic world of mixed cultures that this '''heptagram''' [the weekday heptagram] was created. | | | #* '''2009''', John Barnes, ''Gems of Geometry'', Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-05091-6, [http://books.google.com/books?id=N70BY3WP1qAC&pg=PA27&dq=heptagram+heptagrams page 27]: | | #* '''2009''', John Barnes, ''Gems of Geometry'', Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-05091-6, [http://books.google.com/books?id=N70BY3WP1qAC&pg=PA27&dq=heptagram+heptagrams page 27]: | | | #*: Note that there are two different '''heptagrams''', one goes around twice and the other thrice; moreover, the configuration at the core of the 3-'''heptagram''' is in fact a 2-'''heptagram''' and the figure at the core of that is an ordinary heptagon. | | #*: Note that there are two different '''heptagrams''', one goes around twice and the other thrice; moreover, the configuration at the core of the 3-'''heptagram''' is in fact a 2-'''heptagram''' and the figure at the core of that is an ordinary heptagon. | | |
