Neither would have been able to be extinguished by the primitive firefighting methods to which the people would have had access. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the poet describes the shield: “With the pentangle painted on it in pure gold. Learning and adhering to its metaphysical knowledge was a requirement inside the occult Pythagorean religions.

Biblical Motifs: Origins and Transformations, edited by Alexander Altmann, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 1966, pp. This analogy is exactly how Hobbes sees the ideal common-wealth: many people united under a single sovereign power, who are stronger together than they could ever be alone.Leviathan can also be used as an image of the devil, endangering both God's creatures—by attempting to eat them—and God's creation—by threatening it with upheaval in the waters of Chaos. According to the cosmology of this Gnostic sect, the world is encapsulated by the Leviathan, in form of a dragon-shaped archon, biting its own tail ( ouroboros).

Four upward ones which represent Shiva, and five downward ones representing Shakti that surround the central bindu point.The Ugaritic account has gaps, making it unclear whether some phrases describe him or other monsters at Yammu's disposal such as Tunannu (the biblical Tannin). This crossbar is placed high enough above the middle of the vertical shaft that we can tell it is closer to the top. This is what the ideology of Anton LaVey and the followers of the Church of Satan believe, and this is what this symbol represents in this association. Combined with Mercury (feminine, cool and moist), the pair were considered the parents of all metals.