Editing Pentagram (section)

====Renaissance====
[[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]] and others perpetuated the popularity of the pentagram as a magic symbol, attributing the five neoplatonic elements to the five points, in typical Renaissance fashion.  Agrippa depicts the human body inscribed in an 'upright' (point-up) pentagram and another with its hands in rotated pentagrams, among numerous other geometrical figures, in the section on 'the proportions and harmonious measures of the human body', and an 'inverted' (point-down) version of the Pythagorean 'hygeia' pentagram in the section on 'characters, received only by revelation, which no other kind of reasoning can discover', alongside variations of the [[Chi-Rho]] and the Hebrew word [[Judas Maccabeus#Origin of the name "The Hammer"|Makabi]].

'Of this type are the signet shown to [[Constantine I|Constantine]], which most people called a cross, inscribed in Latin letters, '[[In hoc signo vinces|in this conquer]]', and another revealed to [[Antiochus I Soter|Antiochus who was surnamed Soteris]], in the shape of a pentagon, which issued health, for resolved into letters, it issued the word ὑγίεα, that is, 'health', in the confidence and virtue of which signs, each of the kings won a notable victory against their enemies.  Thus Judas, who for this reason was afterwards known as Maccabeus, was about to fight with the Jews against Antiochus Eupatorus, and received that noble seal מׄכׄבׄיׄ from the angel'.<ref name="DeOcc" />