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* Ancient Egyptian five-pointed star symbolism.  {{link|url=http://www.egyptianmyths.net/star.htm}}
* Late 19th to early 20th century American flag with all stars inverted.  {{link|url=http://www.jeffbridgman.com/inventory/index.php?id=298&page=out}}
* No author listed, “The Pentagram.” {{link|url=http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/pentagram.html}}
* Inverted pentacle located “on the ancient synagogue of Tell Hum” – “Magen David,” ''The Jewish Encyclopedia'', 252. {{link|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=38&letter=M&search=magen%20david}} 
* Abbey McGehee, “Reappraising the Design Methods of Medieval Architecture,” ''Metascience,'' vol. 18, no. 3 (November 2009): 455–58.  {{link|url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/97825qvvh48175up/}}
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Some people view either upright or inverted five-pointed stars in an adverse way. For sources that address both of these configurations in several modern and ancient cultures see the following: 
* Jan Schouten, ''The Pentagram as a Medical Symbol: An Iconological Study'' (Netherlands: H&DG Publishers, 1968), 98 pp.
* Piotr Sadowski, “Sir Gawain’s Pentacle: The Imago Hominis and the Virtue of Temperance” in Piotr Sadowski, ''The Knight on His Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'' (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1996), 109–49.
* Koji Miyazaki, “A Mystic History of Fivefold Symmetry in Japan” in Istvan Hargittai, ed., ''Fivefold Symmetry'' (River Edge, NJ: World Scientific Publishing, 1992), 361–93 [p. 368 - inverted].
* William F. Albright, “Light on the Jewish State in Persian Times,” ''Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research'', no. 53 (February 1934): 20.
* Steen E. Rasmussen, ''Experiencing Architecture'' (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1962), 107.  
* Marie-Therese Zenner, ed., ''Villard’s Legacy: Studies in Medieval Technology, and Art'' (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004), 7–8, nt. #8.
* Robert S. Hawker, ''Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall'' (New York: John Lane, 1903), 13–14 [see esp. fig. 2 adjacent to p. 14 – chancel roof boss, Morwenstow].
* John McClintock and James Strong, ''Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature'' (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1889), 7:901 [interpreted as “representing the five fingers of the hand of Omnipotence”].
* Valerie C. Coffey, “Does Venus Form a Pentacle as it Moves Across the Sky?” ''Sky and Telescope,'' vol. 112, no. 10 (October 2006): 102.
* Alva W. Steffler, ''Symbols of the Christian Faith'' (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1992), 82. 
* Arthur C. Fox-Davies, ''A Complete Guide to Heraldry'' (Edinburgh: T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1909), 295–96. 
* Kurt Weitzmann, "Thirteenth Century Crusader Icons on Mount Sinai," ''The Art Bulletin,'' vol. 45, no. 3, September 1963, 179-203 [many inverted stars]. 

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