VENUS: Pentagram (animated)

[Fulgour]

Venus and the Pentagram

from Grand Lodge of British Columbia and the Yukon:

Plotting the apparent position of Venus in altitude and azimuth as observed from Uruk (Lat. 31°19'00") at the moment of sunrise for consecutive apparitions separated by intervals of 584 days, starting at sunrise, 06:12:07 am, March 23, 716BCE, during the reign of Tiglath-pileser III, near the times of greatest westward elongation of the planet (46.070° - 46.3620°). The Julian Period is noted. The moving light on the horizon is the sun as east is fixed and the seasons vary.

Venus and the Pentagram (http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/venus.html)

The history of the use of the Pentagram clearly shows that this astronomical curiosity is not the source of its perceived occult value.

[DeLani]

Not sure what this site is disproving. I always thought that the reason the Pentagram was associated with Venus is because Venus (apparently) traces a Pentagram in the sky - I just didn't know the details of how or when. That's exactly what this site showed.
Of course, other sources may say other things. But that's what I learned.

[Fulgour]

further on in the site, we find more, and the relationship
between Ishtar and Venus (http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/pentagram.html) is discussed:

"Historically, it does not appear to be equated with Venus.
Venus is equated with the Sumarian goddess, Ishtar (Ishhara,
Irnini, Inanna) whose symbol is an eight or sixteen point star."