Oh, i agree with your reasoning :) We just got to talking apples and oranges here. It was that quote from that book that set me off. Sorry about that.
I've collected and studied ancient greek, roman, asian and celtic coins (before the prices tripled out of reach and i had to sell off most of them ;) By study i mean everything associated with them, the culture, art, history, meaning, etc. I always want to know why a particular ancient coin was issued and what the imagery meant to the people who issued it as well as the people who used it.
No one alive today knows why the pentacle appears on the coins so it's no proof that it was ever used in any celtic religious or magical practices.
There's plenty of recognizable imagery on celtic coins that can be connected to their myths/religion and magical practices but the pentacle is not one of them so far as i know.
It's just there on some coins (shrug) for some reason. The tribes that used it in their coin designs didn't include any visual refs to any greek coin types that used it.
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Date: 2006-12-07 08:44 pm (UTC)apples and oranges here.
It was that quote from that book that set me off. Sorry about that.
I've collected and studied ancient greek, roman, asian and celtic coins (before the prices tripled out of reach and i had to sell off most of them ;)
By study i mean everything associated with them, the culture, art, history, meaning, etc. I always want to know why a particular ancient
coin was issued and what the imagery meant to the people who issued it as well as the people who used it.
No one alive today knows why the pentacle appears on the coins
so it's no proof that it was ever used in any celtic religious or
magical practices.
There's plenty of recognizable imagery on celtic coins that can be
connected to their myths/religion and magical practices but the
pentacle is not one of them so far as i know.
It's just there on some coins (shrug) for some reason. The tribes that used it in their coin designs didn't include any visual refs to any greek coin types that used it.