»Pentagram at the beginning and end of "Second Renaissan«

There's a pentagram hidden in one of the frames of the second renassance part I - as we enter the padron in the "bookeeper's" hand - when everything turns red.

There's again a pentagram (this time two of them) when the part II is ending - when the image zooms out from the pods and starts to become red.

See it for yourself...

And then give your opinions.

Sounds cool. I cant check though, I dont have Animatrix. Does anyone have a screenshot?

...I don't have that tech in order to freeze the image and then post it.

It's really tough to get (specially the two of the second part), but with a little effort you'll find it.

As for the animatrix - I don't want to make marketing or anything but, if you don't have it it's a good thing to start thinking about it - simply beautifull (and stimulating!);

well... pentagrams are the symbol of werewolves and evil in general. I haven't seen the animatrix myself, but i have seen the trilogy. Cain and Abel are supposedly werewolves, as is suggested in the movie (persephone shoots them with silver bullets) and in Enter the Matrix. Note also, that in Enter the Matrix, a vampire catches you, and also that most of the bad guys will only die in the Merovingian's Castle, if u shove a wooden stake through their chest. The Oracle says that Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts are all programs not doing what they are supposed to. Obviously, there is much more to the Merovingian and his gang than meets the eye.

...ignorance fom certain Catholic groups and their greed for power made it become so...

Some approaches about the pentagram and it's signifiance:

The pentagram is one of the oldest icons related to both esoterism, sacred geometry and the bible.

The pentagram is the seal of Salomon (not be confounded with the seal of David - his father - which was the six pointed star - or the double tringle, simbol od both masculine and femenine with all the four elements within);

The pentagram is in the old testament - god gives Salomon the seal of the "small" universe - he gives Salomon the rule over Mankind...

The pentagram is also linked with the pitagoric mistic school, the sacred geometry and the measures (including the golden rule, Phy, and the Fibonacci Sequence);

The pitagorics had as a simbol the Pentalfa - the alpha five times, or the five pointed star.

In it - the pentalfa - we may find the golden measure, the ratio of Phy - it is one of the keys to the measures of the world - and it was thought to be the "seal" of the architect of the universe.

It's also linked with the number 666 (the pitagorics studied and defined the mathematical ratios of sound - they discovered the whole of the musical tone (octive in english maybe?) was ratio 888 (Jesus name is a greek riddle to say - "888") while the perfect fifth of the tone was 666 - this is linked to the number of man (the pentagram - as we see it in the picture from Leonardo da Vinci, "the Vitruvian Man" shows how the human body is based upon the golden measure and it's link with the pentagram);

The pentagram is also the simbol of the Goddess - in her form as Venus, as well as the simbol of Lucifer (the light bearer, wich name was taken from the planet that had this name before the classical culture changed it to "Venus");

Venus's name, because it's the first "star" to appear and the last to desappear (and it's the most brilliant astral corps in the sky after the sun and the moon) was named the "morning star" (as his "crescent form") and the "evening star" (as it's decreasing form) - and we could say they become the "alter ego" one of the other and may even be assumed as two different entities that compose a whole - something as a "Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, so to speak;

The orbit of Venus traces a perfect pentagram in the celestial sphere in each 8 years.
The atrologers from the ancient time noticed this and linked it to the measures from the earth that were connected to the divine proportion (ex. Phy) - thus to the man and many elements from nature (from sun flowers to sea shells);

The simbol os the pentagram (or pentacle, depending of if it is defined inside a circunference) it's linked to the wiccans as well as the western druidic cults.

We trully do not know much about these ancient cults - the wicca is an "echo" of the past preserved in some oral traditions by - mainly - female groups of priestess, that were severelly persecuted in the middle age and which knowledge seems to be a "residual" translation from the essence of the druidic cult;

The druids were smashed under the Roman rule (some authors say Julius Caesar invaded Gaule and then Britain only to learn their knowledge and then terminated them);

The fact is, we know allmost nothing from them, since they did not write their knowledge - they iniciated neofies in the tradition of "mistery schools" but had no temples more than the Oak forests and the previous megalitic stone structures adapted to their ceremonies.
We know from them, mainly, what Julius Caesar biographers tell us - and that's, obviously, adapted to theyr own end;

If you notice this, Julius Caesar invaded Egipt, was initiated in the ancient knowledge - changed the Roman calendar in order to follow the egiptian way of counting time (sirius based sistem) and smashed the druids cause they were "the head" of the celt's resistance...

Everything is connected...

Midnight of 2000 the star Sirius was on the edge of the piramid of Keops - the changes of the calendar during time lead to the amazing "coincidence" of the return of the "old ways" from egipt...

Look at the top of a catholic cathedral and you'll find an eye, and a triangle...

Things are as they were - we believe things change when they didn't change so much...

Uroboros bites it's tail my friend...

OK... that's a little more involved than my answer... helpful nonetheless, thanks

Now, I still coudn't find the meaning for it's presence within the Animatrix episode.

One of the Pentagrams has an "old fashined" stile, while the other seems the simbol of the space program (allmost as a flower with five little dots in it's points)...

Maybe someone appears with an answer...

no idea, i haven't seen animatrix yet

... and see it - I asure you won't be wasting your time! Brilliant simbiosys of diffrent anime stiles in a Matrix Universe perspective (and four episodes directly linked to the matrix Trilogy)...

yeah, i saw flight of the osirus in a movie theater... they played it before the movie we were watching came on... that really helped me piece together what was goin on in the video game and trilogy.

Looked a few times, still have been unable to see it, sorry.

5-sided shape right. Can u b more specific as to where, what am I missing?

wish i could help you, but can't so, ask someone else please

... it's in the beginning of the first episode of Second Renaissance.

It's a black circle with two silver (or white) pentagrams - five pointed star.

It appears on the right of the screen, when the image - seen frame by frame - starts to get red from zooming in on the chip the woman in the center of the mandala is holding in her right hand...

The other two appear in the second episode - when we zoom out from the image of the sleeping child inside the matrix, when all the pots have transformed in to a red dot pattern, when the image starts to get red - frame by frame - first a double pentagram in the right followed by another one in the left...

Hope you may find it.

If not, I'll try to take a cronometer and send you the second in which both appear after some easy spoted event on the anime...

... I've made a mistake and I want to correct it.

The first Pentagram appears Before the mandala - it is as we "enter" - zoom in - the squared pattern in the beginning of the first episode. In fact there appear two pentagrams there - one on the left and one on the right wright after...

The pentagram (exactly the same as the others) thjat appears when we "zoom in2 the chip in the woman's hand it's the easyer to spot - when the B1-66- er trial ends and we're given an image of the mandala - when the zoom in begins upon the chip - you'll see a blak shape appearing on the right - look at it in slow motion and freeze it when it appears - a pentagram...

The last two appear in the end of the second episode - as I described before...

I'll try to look at the animatrix in a dvd - I have a Play Station II, so I don't have the time refferences for you...

Good hunt!

...what are the posible interpretations it may have there?

It is an icon purposedly set upon the episode's thread - it's black, not corresponding with any of the motives of the zoom in/out environment...

Thoughts?...

For those that haven't find the pentagrams, I went to my friends home and looked at animatrix on his DVD. Here are the time locations of the three inputs:

First two: Episode I "Second Renaissance" - 00.22;

Second (alone): Episode I "Second Renaissance" - 03.37;

Last two: Episode II "Second Renaissance" - 08.55;

Hope now is easyer to find.

Tell me what you thought about it...

The episode deals with emergennce of the matrix and the bondage it brings.

A guess. Possible interpretation could be that Pentagram symbolizes the five elements (earth, water, fire , wind and spece) which metaphorically, according to some(Hindu/Buddhist) spiritual traditions, make up our material world . And this material world is anlalogous to 'the matrix' or Maya which traps our attention and keeps us in bondage. Also, at the end of the episode, there is also a blond fairy like figure, (falsely?) comforting the human in the Pod.

Animatrix is cool. A must see for matrix fans.