signum pythagoreum

English translation: Tetractys

20:27 May 11, 2018
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Philosophy
Spanish term or phrase: signum pythagoreum
This is from a text about an Argentine painter. Could it be the Pythagorean formula:


Por eso logra cruzar la astucia de la razón con el destino de las pulsiones o la astucia del cuerpo propio, como forma de liberar las representaciones de un destino unilateral, ser conceptos o ser símbolos, y abrir, así, la posibilidad de un destino común: ser representaciones fronterizas, que pasan el contrabando de la semejanza transformando el esfuerzo por ser en el deseo de saber, y las fijaciones y congelamientos sintomáticos en las vibraciones estremecedoras de la voluntad de la posibilidad, de la misma manera que Higía con el signum pythagoreum en el penta-grama.

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Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 20:43
English translation:Tetractys
Explanation:
Not the formula, but rather the Pythagorean symbol, otherwise known at the Tetractys, ten points arranged in a triangle of 4 rows. See the wikipedia article about this.
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John Emerzian
United States
Local time: 18:43
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3 +4leave in Latin
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
4 +1Tetractys
John Emerzian
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Higía y el pentagrama
Beatriz Ramírez de Haro

  

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Tetractys


Explanation:
Not the formula, but rather the Pythagorean symbol, otherwise known at the Tetractys, ten points arranged in a triangle of 4 rows. See the wikipedia article about this.

John Emerzian
United States
Local time: 18:43
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: It would have been nice ifi you had provided the link.
49 mins
  -> Good point. I will provide this in the future. Thanks.

neutral  Charles Davis: No, this doesn't refer to the tetractys, it refers to the pentagram; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram#Early_history , with an illustration of a Pythagorean Hugieia pentagram from Allman's Greek Geometry (1889).
57 mins
  -> Yes, you are right. Thanks for the correction on this.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
leave in Latin


Explanation:
I believe that it should be left untranslated as in the ST.

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Local time: 00:43
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis
9 mins
  -> Gracias Charles - Bea

agree  JohnMcDove: Ad pedem litterae! Verbatim et literatim... ;-)
3 hrs
  -> Vere... (lo de buen finde no sé cómo lo dirían los romanos).

agree  neilmac
19 hrs
  -> Thank you neilmac - Bea

agree  Robert Carter
2 days 8 hrs
  -> Thank you Robert - Bea
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Reference comments


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Reference: Higía y el pentagrama

Reference information:
Un pentagrama, también llamado pentáculo, pantáculo, pentalfa, pentángulo y estrella pitagórica es una estrella de cinco puntas dibujada con cinco trazos rectos.
El icono distintivo de los pitagóricos fue una estrella regular de cinco puntas. Un pentágono regular, estrellado o convexo, conlleva virtualmente un conjunto de relaciones geométricas, que descubiertas por los pitagóricos, concluyeron en el hallazgo de una proporción distinguida.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagrama_(geometría)

En la mitología griega, Higía (en griego antiguo Υγιεία Jai-Yia o Υγεία Hygeía, ‘salud’)... era la diosa de la curación, la limpieza y la sanidad... De su nombre deriva la palabra «higiene». Su equivalente en la mitología romana es Salud.
El pentáculo "Hugieia" (ύγιεία: salud) era utilizado para enviar saludos entre los pitagóricos.1​
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higía_(mitología)

Beatriz Ramírez de Haro
Spain
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
20 mins
agree  Charles Davis: Exactamente. Se refiere al pentagrama.
31 mins
agree  JohnMcDove: Sí, señora. :-)
3 hrs
agree  neilmac
19 hrs
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