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Old 1st October 2021, 09:52 PM   #14
Jim McDougall
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Originally Posted by fernando View Post
Jim, i was only (un)establishing some relation in context. If i do look for star marks in general i notice that six pointed ones abound circa 1500's (Armi Bianche) and a five pointed one may be seen in a XIV century halberd (Waldman).
Got it. It seems weird that a 'punctuation' character would be used as a personal marking, when these were used so randomly in cosmological motifs.
While each of these are regarded as 'stars' , in symbolic literature they carry very different meanings. Gets pretty confusing
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