PURGE OCCULTISM

The five-pointed star is one of the oldest and most widespread human symbols, yet today it is often misunderstood, feared, or outright demonized. The terms pentagram and pentacle are frequently confused, so let’s start with the etymology.

A pentagram (from Greek pente, “five,” and gramma, “line or writing”) is simply a five-pointed star. Drawn in one continuous line, it is one of the most basic geometric forms the human mind produces. A pentacle, by contrast, comes from combining pente (“five”) with circle—that is, a star enclosed within a circle. In art, religion, and philosophy, this circle often signifies unity, wholeness, or the cycles of life.

Beyond Hollywood and “Occultist” Nonsense

Don’t be afraid of the pentagram just because some opportunistic occultists layered it with pseudo-Gnostic theatrics, or because Hollywood decided to milk fear by plastering it onto every horror movie. The upright star is not “holy” and the inverted star is not “satanic.” That association is modern fiction, not ancient fact.

Even within Christianity, the pentagram was adopted as a sacred emblem. Upright, it symbolized the Ascension of Christ and the spiritual path toward heaven. Inverted, it represented the Incarnation—the divine taking on flesh in this world. Far from being demonic, the star was carved into churches, monasteries, and cathedral windows across Europe as a symbol of Christ’s presence and the five wounds of the crucifixion.

Ancient Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and cultures across the Near East also used five-pointed stars to signify cosmic order, life cycles, and divinity. The upright star was connected to death and release from the body, pointing upward to the heavens. The inverted star was tied to birth and embodiment, pointing downward toward the earth—an echo of childbirth itself, as babies are traditionally born head-first.

Inverted and Upright: Life and Death, Summoning and Banishing

Later European traditions preserved this duality. The inverted star symbolized Summoning into Being—birth, incarnation, manifestation. The upright symbolized Banishing out of Being—death, release, transcendence. This was not “black magic” or “Satanism.” It was a poetic language of life and death, rooted in observation of the natural order.

Medieval literature reflects this. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain’s red shield bore a golden five-pointed star—a symbol of virtue, unity, and protection.

Archaeological finds across the ancient Mediterranean show pentagrams inscribed as symbols of health, prosperity, and divine favor. Among the Pythagoreans, the pentagram stood for ugieia (health), not “hygiene” but a deeper, holistic wellness of body and soul.

In ancient Semitic cultures, the five-pointed star was associated with the bull, an animal linked to the high god El or Al. Jerusalem itself was sometimes represented in five-letter form. The symbol was not feared but revered.

Some modern preachers and conspiracy theorists will point out that the word Satan fits neatly into the five spaces of the star. So does Jesus. So does Balls. So does Penis. So does any other five-letter word, including Merit, Deity, or Human.

To take this as proof of demonic meaning is intellectual laziness at best and manipulative fearmongering at worst which is often what various claimed to be "Anti-theist or Atheist Satanic" groups play off of and ignorant fools embellish and exacerbate. This has a lot to do, however, with the fact that the first official public "Satanic" religion was called the Church of Satan, which borrowed a lot from Eliphas Levi, and various other French occult texts which they state clearly (and frankly its a lot of stupid nonsense). This is the example:

Anton LeVay simply removed the words from the original source which also had upright star with the "Image of Man" upon it,  in 1966 for his Church of Satan. In 2012, I created a different one entirely based on the previous content and changed it to a include the Torch of Liberty and the Stag Skull in connection with Winter as the point of the end of the old and beginning of the new.

Since my motives were and are entirely different, the goal was not to build this Church of Druwayu on provocation and media driven sensationalism, or the nonsense of bad publicity is still publicity. Because of the crap created by the Satanic Temple not long after I made this design based on entirely different inspirations and context, I stopped using it, though that was back before the Church of Druwayu and the religion named Druwayu came to be which didn't occur till 2014, and then a decade later, the establishment of the First Church of Druwayu.

Unfortunately it was being confused with another startup of the more extreme kind of "Modern Satanism" founded by some racists using Satanism as a publicity stunt to push anti-theistic, anti-religion driven rhetoric and more or less more Cosplay Satanism as an attack on violations of the Separation of Church and State.

The argument was valid. The behavior was not. Nonetheless they created a modification of the Church of Satan version and have overshadowed it for the most part while it became more like Lawsuit Happy Scientology without Tom Cruise as a Famous Star Member.

The truth is that ignorance breeds fear, and fear breeds hatred. Entire generations have been indoctrinated to see the pentagram as a sign of evil, when in reality it is one of humanity’s most universal and positive symbols. To cling to such fear is to let yourself be ruled by centuries of imposed stupidity.

Note: I went through several logo design potentials for the Church and its religion before I went with this 33 star design finally achieving a simple but more than a reasonably distinct enough form with a difference basis and have largely abandoned the stag skull and star form so as to not be associated with the nonsense and hypocrisy that is Satanism in any name, expression or form.

Set Your Mind Free

The pentagram and pentacle are not satanic. They are ancient emblems of life, death, health, and divine presence. To look upward is to remember the soul’s release; to look downward is to honor the sacred act of incarnation and birth. Across Egypt, India, Europe, the Americas, and beyond, cultures recognized this star as part of the great rhythm of being.

Set your mind free from the lies of dogma and pop culture. Stop letting fear-mongers twist symbols into weapons. The pentagram is not a mark of Satan—it is a mark of humanity itself, spanning birth and death, body and spirit, earth and sky.