Heptagram vs Triquetra - What's the difference?
heptagram | triquetra |
Either of two regular seven-pointed stars, drawn with the construction lines retained; a heptangle.
* 1890 , , Logic Taught by Love , Alfred Mudge & Son:
* 1995 , Carl G. Liungman, Thought Signs: The Semiotics of Symbols: Western Idiograms , IOS Press, ISBN 90-5199-197-5,
* 2009 , John Barnes, Gems of Geometry , Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-05091-6,
(rare) A heptagon. A shape formed of three vesica piscis , sometimes with an additional circle, a symbol of things and persons that are threefold, and a symbol of protection in Wicca.
As nouns the difference between heptagram and triquetra
is that heptagram is either of two regular seven-pointed stars, drawn with the construction lines retained; a heptangle while triquetra is a shape formed of three vesica piscis , sometimes with an additional circle, a symbol of things and persons that are threefold, and a symbol of protection in wicca.heptagram
English
(wikipedia heptagram)Noun
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page 15]: The exercise may be varied by tracing the Heptagram , i. e. , passing from one point to another of a regular Heptagon in this order — 1, 4, 7, 3, 6, 2, 5, 1.
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: If the hand is stiff, it may be loosened and trained into tune with Nature's formative processes by the practice of drawing the Pentagram and Heptagram .
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- It was with the adoption and widespread use of the seven-day week throughout the Hellenistic world of mixed cultures that this heptagram [the weekday heptagram] was created.
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- Note that there are two different heptagrams', one goes around twice and the other thrice; moreover, the configuration at the core of the 3-'''heptagram''' is in fact a 2-' heptagram and the figure at the core of that is an ordinary heptagon.