developed an understanding of health which they associated with the form of the pentagram and the Greek goddess Hygiea (also Hygieia or Hygeia) -- the personification of health, cleanliness and sanitation, and the origin of the term "hygiene" [more]. The name of the goddess is alleged to have been used as their primary greeting (perhaps, speculatively, to be considered an origin for "hug"). The snake encircled Bowl of Hygiea has long been used as one of the symbols of pharmacy. Hygiea Internationalis is now the official journal of the International Network for the History of Public Health.

Wu Xing: This ancient Chinese mnemonic pattern in the form of a pentagram of five phases, or five elements, is widely known in East Asia. It is traditionally associated with Chinese medicine,create hate. (Cupid's Arrows)

The myth has featured widely in many contexts down the centuries -- notably through the challenge it offers to the Apollonian perspective (as an archetypal "heartless head"). The tale by Rudyard Kipling (Cupid's Arrows, 1888) is frequently cited as a strange combination of close observation of matters of love and marriage, some mild satire of the strangeness of social conventions, and an acceptance of their strangeness. His tale has featured as The Short Story of the Day (6 August 2016).

The articulation of the coaction cardioid does indeed imply "co-action" but its representation in tabular or graphical form has reinforced the sense of a static configuration of categories. Each of those 8 categories calls for the dynamic emphasis it implies, and possibly dramatically so: predation, parasitism,