Pentagram (inverted)

A five-pointed star drawn with one point downward, the inverse of the upright pentagram. The inverted form has accumulated multiple operative readings: in Éliphas Lévi’s 1854–56 work it represented the descent of spirit into matter; in modern Satanic and left-hand-path use it represents the carnal or animal element ascendant over the spiritual; in the Sigil of Baphomet of the Church of Satan it encloses a goat-head and Hebrew letters spelling Leviathan. The same shape is the operative element of multiple distinct symbol systems.