hmm cool thread ya your right here's the wiki link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram
from
http://www.elemental5.com/pentagram.htm
"it says During the 20th century, The Church of Satan (created by Anton Lavey) inverted the upright pentacle and adopted it as their own symbol. The symbol is most commonly shown with the head of a goat within an inverted pentagram. The Church of Satan's pentagram is point down and symbolizes the five tenets of Satanism, all of which have to do with earthly gratification. "
Although I have read a little bit about satanism it is not the worship of satan but more of a worship of one's self although that is Levay satonism, there is also the lesser known and less common Theistic Satonism , which is the worship of the devil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theistic_Satanism
god **** it you made me fall down the wiki hole again, there goes an hour and a half of my time to researching pentagrams and occultism,
it's alright it twas interesting
and doesn't really preach much on forgivness
Genrally it is good, but it is well known as a pagan symbol, so for some people they see it as a sign as witchraft which they view as bad
also here's a quote from wiki about the sign, it's good up but bad upside down
"With a single point upwards it depicted spirit presiding over the four elements of matter, and was essentially "good". However, the influential writer Eliphas Levi called it evil whenever the symbol appeared the other way up.
"A reversed pentagram, with two points projecting upwards, is a symbol of evil and attracts sinister forces because it overturns the proper order of things and demonstrates the triumph of matter over spirit. It is the goat of lust attacking the heavens with its horns, a sign execrated by initiates."[9]
"The flaming star, which, when turned upside down, is the hierolgyphic [sic] sign of the goat of Black Magic, whose head may be drawn in the star, the two horns at the top, the ears to the right and left, the beard at the bottom. It is the sign of antagonism and fatality. It is the goat of lust attacking the heavens with its horns."[10]
"Let us keep the figure of the Five-pointed Star always upright, with the topmost triangle pointing to heaven, for it is the seat of wisdom, and if the figure is reversed, perversion and evil will be the result."[11] "
Also I was wondering about the differnce between pagan and wiccan so i looked it up
"Wicca is a tradition of Witchcraft that was brought to the public by Gerald Gardner in the 1950s. There is a great deal of debate among the Pagan community about whether or not Wicca is truly the same form of Witchcraft that the ancients practiced. Regardless, many people use the terms Wicca and Witchcraft interchangeably. Paganism is an umbrella term used to apply to a number of different earth-based faiths. Wicca falls under that heading, although not all Pagans are Wiccan.
The term “pagan” (derived from the Latin paganus, which translates roughly to “hick from the sticks”) was originally used to describe people who lived in rural areas. As time progressed and Christianity spread, those same country folk were often the last holdouts clinging to their old religions. Thus, “pagan” came to mean people who didn’t worship the god of Abraham.
So, in a nutshell, here's what's going on. All Wiccans are witches, but not all witches are Wiccans. All Wiccans are Pagans, but not all Pagans are Wiccans. Finally, some witches are Pagans, but some are not."
from
http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/faq/f/DifferencePPW.htm
