Can someone tell me about this pendant?

[himitsunomiko]

Hi all. My friend came by yesterday wearing this most intersting necklace. He said he got it at a 'Fairy Store' in, I think it was Amsterdam. Anyways, on the arms of the stars are the symbols for Jupiter and Mars. Then in the middle is Mercury with Earth to the left and something indistinguishable on the right. The top of the Mercury symbol in the middle has a moon on it. The words are the sides are Te Trai Gram Ma Ton. The person who sold it to him said it was for protection. Thoughts?

http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae329/Shasalasa/n2.jpg

[lordzoma]

It's one of the names of the God of Israel written with four letters, as written in the Hebrew Masoretic Text where it appears over 6,800 times.

"In Judaism, the Tetragrammaton is the ineffable name of God, and is not pronounced. In reading aloud of the scripture or in prayer, it is replaced with “Adonai” (“my Lord”). Other written forms are read as “Hashem” (The Name), for the same reason.

One theory regarding the disuse of the Tetragrammaton is that the Jewish taboo on its pronunciation was so strong that the original pronunciation may have been lost somewhere in the first millennium. Since then, many scholars (particularly Christians) have sought to reconstruct its original pronunciation. For example, circa 1518 Christian theologians1 introduced the pronunciation “Yehovah”, which is generally held to be grammatically implausible based on the written form that was used to indicate to the reader of the Bible in Hebrew to pronounce it “Elohim”

This theory regarding the disuse of the Tetragrammaton is the result of an interpretation of the Third of the Ten Commandments. The Jewish people stopped saying the Name by the third century C.E. out of fear of violating the commandment “You shall not take the name of YHVH your God in vain” (Exodus 20:7). “The third commandment, interpreted to prohibit swearing, led, in unconscious appreciation of its original meaning—a caution against pronouncing divine names or imparting them to persons other than the properly initiated—to a reverent avoidance of the mention of the Shem ha-Meforash (Soṭah 38a; Sifre to Num. vi. 27, and elsewhere), and to extreme caution even in writing not to expose “the Name” to disrespect or thoughtless disregard.” http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=193&letter=D&search=Third%20Commandment The Tetragrammaton in the Bible provides more details on why [i.e., "Yehovih"] has precisely the same Hebrew vowel points as [i.e., Elohiym] has.

It is possible that the practice was in effect prior to early Christian times as Jesus prayed to the Father “I have made your name known”. (John 17:26)"

[himitsunomiko]

thanks o lord zoma. i miss your cat emporer avatar tho :(

[varteks]

astrology?
good planets protecting us from the bad planets?

but still you dont wear the pictures of the planets right?

[himitsunomiko]

inscribing the symbol of a planet onto a talisman enables the power of that planet to be infused in it.

[varteks]

and what do those planets stand for?

[himitsunomiko]

Jupiter - thor

mars - aries

ish

[starshine]

The pendant looks very auspicious to myself, it really does.:)
At least the pendant is not downwards at all.

[mythmath]

Tetragrammaton Pentacle Pendant

One of the most important texts of occidental
magic was Eliphas Levi's "The Magic Ritual".

It is the source of this pentacle, believed by many to
be one of the most powerful pentacle designs ever
conceived - sometimes known as the Tetragrammaton.

http://www.whitemagic.com.au/images/products/jewellery/pendants/pents/6022-tetragrampent-nail.jpg


source: jewellery/pentagrams (http://www.whitemagic.com.au/jewellery/pentagrams.htm)

[jp13]

That's a great Pentagram, I must check out the website, thank you;)