Comment on Lunar Magic by Ironshod
Prety nice work but it hides many religious messages. Dragon usually refer's to the antichrist, "the beast", and the symbol behind(and in the other part's of the picture) him is a pantacle (pentalfa)used by those who believe in satan as theyr's god. Also, if you turn a pantacle upside down you can see a random perimeter of a demon. The full moon is also used by the follower's of satan and when it apperar's many sadistic paganistic ritual's take place including sacrifices.Wizards of the Coast produce card games with demonic, violent pictures and i think they have a reason for that.
hahah, all that shines is not gold, hon. it is true that the dragon is 'demonized' by christianity, and indeed the pentacle turned upside down IS used by satanists. but the link you make between paganism and satanism is not necessary, and the pentagram has far older roots than that - it was seen by the ancient greeks, with their mathematical idealism, as the representation of perfection, as all the proportions in the symbol come down to the golden ratio, it can symbolize anything female because of its connection to the planet venus, which would appear to draw this figure between the stars due to retrograde motions. it can represent the five elements or the five senses. a symbol means only what it means to the person who uses it. I wear a pentacle necklace - point up - because the rules of wiccanism appeal more to me than the laws of the other religions I know of: an it harm none, do as ye will. I am not a satanist, nor a real witch. one more thing: ritual sacrifice long not always means killing something. it can be just an offering - fruit, or wine. christians don't really drink jesus's blood either, do they?