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the planet Venus traced a perfect pentacle across the ecliptic sky every four years.
As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads. Nowadays, few people realized that the four-year schedule of modern Olympic Games still followed the cycles of Venus. Even fewer people knew that the five-pointed star had almost become the official Olympic seal but was modified at the last moment—its five points exchanged for five intersecting rings to better reflect the games’ spirit of inclusion and harmony.
It seemed Eve’s bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.
Money and faith were powerful motivators.
He felt a familiar warmth inside. This is why he taught.
