[meteorite-list] OT: five-pointed stars vs six-pointed stars

[drtanuki]

Nick and List,
  I have done some further digging.  The five  pointed
stars represent the five elements of alchemy, water,
wind, fire, wood, stone in different forms.
  The center of the star representing the Earth.
  Both forms contain symbols that are not apparent to
most of the the modern world.  Thanks for you kind
reply. 
  As a side note:  The ancient Chinese used the circle
to represent Heaven and the square, Earth (this is the
reason  that ancient Chinese coins had a square hole
in their center).
 Dirk...Tokyo

--- Nicholas Gessler <gessler at ucla.edu> wrote:

> Hello Dirk,
> Or four or seven points?
> Or pointy stars:  3 points for Mercedes, 5 points
> for Chrysler?
> Or no points, as our sky atlases depict?
> Are you deconstructing artists' renderings of the
> heavens and meteorite falls?
> Or any number of points depending on which camera
> filter we choose to use?
> Independent invention?
> Random variation?
> The wish to have a different sort of star from the
> other folks?
> 5-points is demonic only if the point is down.
> Star-struck,
> Nick
> 
> 


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