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[Ring] Strange Star Symbol in Trailer
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aceituna
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 		[Ring] Strange Star Symbol in Trailer
Hi all, I'm sorry to start a new topic as I know it clutters, but I couldn't find an appropriate place to post this. Also I didn't know how to label it correctly so... sorry and if it needs to be moved please by all means.

Ok so here goes I noticed this comment by dantIL in a forum recently:
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Speaking of the Chartres labyrinth, I had forgotten that for a while after the first LostRing trailer we were obsessed with that little asterisk that appears in the center of the labyrinth which also appears in the trailer. I still wonder what's up with that...


I found the Forum in which this had been discussed: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=494103

I looked at that image and it occurred to me that it looks rather like a Pomegranate Flower or the Fruit when it is split open. There is a very good image of this here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punica_granatum

Look in the second to last row of the actual pictures and then below in the illustrations (sorry I wish I knew how to include images in the post).

Here also is a quote from the Wikipedia page these images are linked to which is here:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPomegranate&ei=7ln1R5WOIqKMiwGUypm4Ag&usg=AFQjCNEWn1OxAa0NAEnIP1K9YdpIC0be4g&sig2=EljQiA6o-42n3vcncUweNg

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The pomegranate also evoked the presence of the Aegean Triple Goddess who evolved into the Olympian Hera, who is sometimes represented offering the pomegranate, as in the Polykleitos' cult image of the Argive Heraion (see below). According to Carl A. P. Ruck and Danny Staples, the chambered pomegranate is also a surrogate for the poppy's narcotic capsule, with its comparable shape and chambered interior.[31] On a Mycenaean seal illustrated in Joseph Campbell's Occidental Mythology 1964, figure 19, the seated Goddess of the double-headed axe (the labrys) offers three poppy pods in her right hand and supports her breast with her left. She embodies both aspects of the dual goddess, life-giving and death-dealing at once.


I followed the wikipedia link on labyrs and got this:
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Archeology suggests that the veneration of Zeus Labraundeos at Labraunda was far older than Plutarch imagined. As with its apparent cognate, "labyrinth", the word entered the Greek language as a loanword, so that its etymology, and even its original language, is not positively known. The loanword labyrinth was used in Greek, but the designation "The house of the Double Axe" for the palace at Knossos is an imaginative modern innovation.


...and this:
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The word labyrinthos (Mycenaean daburinthos[3]) is probably connected with the word labrys. In the context of the Classical Greek myth of Theseus, the labyrinth of Greek mythology is frequently associated with the Minoan palace of Knossos and has a long tradition of use that extends before any written records explain the traditions.

As most of this stuff it could be something...or nothing at all, but I figured I should put it out there.

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the little star - is it related to the 16 point star Eli Hunt is describing in his podcast on the Lost Theory of Pangaea?

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 		According to Greek mythology, the Troyian war started when Beautiful Helen gave Paris an apple to show that she favored him. There is debate that what she actually gave was a pomegranate that symbolized love.

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