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Short and WideOne of the first things that you notice when you look closely at the pentagram in the DC map layout, is how short and wide it is. In other words, it is NOT a "regular" pentagram, since it will not fit inside of a circle.
![]() This of course means that, if the pentagram in the map were intendeded to depict the goat's head, as some people presume, then the ears of that goat would be very wide indeed. Note that when the goat's head and pentagram are scaled to match the figure in the map, they fit within an ellipse and not a circle. The ellipse, as we all know, is a shortened circle.
![]() Here see a figure of the pentagram inscribed inside an ellipse, just as the goat's head is in the above image. Note that if we "connect the dots" on this shortened pentagram, it forms an equilateral triangle with 52 degree base angles, just like the cross section of the Pyramid of Gizeh.
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![]() Looking at the map, we see that one side of that triangle is depicted by New Hampshire Avenue, which touches the pentagram at DuPont Circle and Washington Circle; while the other side is formed by a line connecting Logan Circle and Mt Vernon Square.
![]() It appears that the pentagram was shortened in order to produce a triangle that is analogous to the cross-section of the Great Pyramid.
Scott CircleIf we zoom in on Scott Cirlce (SC in the above map image), we see that it is formed by the intersection of three streets. Upon further inspection, we see that it is a "star of david" figure, with an ellipse and a point at the center.
![]() As you can see, the star has not only been shortened, as it is a component of the pentagram, but that it has also been "pinched". Note that the original of this figure would have been a Star of David with an inscibed circle with a point in the middle.
![]() If we measure the angles formed in Scott Circle, we see pairs of 23+ degree angles, matching the latitude of the tropics on the earth. That is, shortening the pentagram has produced a figure analogous the globe, with the pole and tropics.
![]() Curiously, in an addendum to Peter Tompkin's "Secrets of the Pyramids" (p. 301), we see Z. Stechinni suggest that the "Star of David" symbol represents, not only the (sexual) union of opposites, but also, the earth; featuring the poles and the tropics. This, of course, is an odd statement because the hexagram touches the circle at 30 degrees of latitiude, not at 23.5. The figure below shows that we can produce the same effect by shortening the Star of David. When we reduce it's height so that what were equilateral triangles with three 60 degree angles, are now triangles with 52 degree base angles, the diagonals form 47 degree angles, like the tropics.
![]() In the image below, we see this shortened hexagram image superimposed on the image of the Stonehenge, where the corners match the position of the Station Stones. Note the elliptical figure at the center of the image.
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