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    "id": "acn:symbol:pentacle",
    "slug": "pentacle",
    "title": "Pentacle",
    "description": "A ritual or diagrammatic figure, often but not always star-shaped, used in various esoteric traditions.",
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    "published": true,
    "modified_utc": "2026-06-20T20:28:38Z",
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        "url": "https://antichrist.net/wp-content/themes/antichrist-net/assets/img/symbol-dictionary/pentacle.jpg",
        "alt": "Pentacle symbol plate. A compact authored line study isolates the form without reproducing ritual diagrams or hate marks."
    },
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        "id": "pentacle",
        "name": "Pentacle",
        "classification": "Comparative motif",
        "one_line_meaning": "A ritual or diagrammatic figure, often but not always star-shaped, used in various esoteric traditions.",
        "principal_source": "The earliest context varies by motif; use museum catalogues, manuscripts, community records, or primary ritual texts rather than visual resemblance alone.",
        "historical_interpretations": "The annex records layered reception and overlapping uses. It avoids collapsing “occult,” “religious,” “artistic,” “technical,” and “political” signs into a single category.",
        "visual_anatomy": "A compact authored line study isolates the form without reproducing ritual diagrams or hate marks.",
        "civic_reading": "The civic use is methodological: identify provenance, distinguish adoption from invention, and refuse identity verdicts based on symbols alone.",
        "misuse_warning": "Do not use the word as a generic label for every pentagram or circular star.",
        "does_not_prove": "It does not prove Satanism, danger, or criminal intent.",
        "related_symbols": [
            "Visual Grammar",
            "Source Discipline",
            "Not a Target Label"
        ],
        "disputed_readings": "Origins, dates, names, and community meanings are often disputed; entries remain concise until stronger source review is complete.",
        "suggested_image": "Use a museum, archive, or primary-text example only after license and provenance review.",
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        "glyph_logic": "Compact line study with explicit provenance warning.",
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        "alt": "Pentacle symbol plate. A compact authored line study isolates the form without reproducing ritual diagrams or hate marks.",
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        "height": 1600,
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