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Greetings from ancient construction workers

 


The image above this text represents medieval bricks. Those bricks are part of the collection of the Helsinki Museum of Architecture. Construction or brick manufacturers have left their mark on the bricks. And when we look closer to the middle brick, there's a pentagram on that brick. This symbol can have serious consequences in the Middle Ages. 

That kind of thing always causes questions about who were those people, how they lived, what things they talked about together? Where they came from, where they went after construction was ready? Were those construction workers similar to migrant workers like today? 

If the worker would get the construction site like church or cathedral. That guaranteed livelihood for the rest of their life. At that time there was no social service. And the good and long payment guaranteed that those workers could pay their old times from salaries that they got from the church. Another way to guarantee the livelihood of the workers was to find the construction site of the castle. 

Is this pentagram proof that some people exercised witchcraft and pagan rituals? Or was it just the test that person was capable of for some more or less seriously taken gangs? Or was it the test of how accurate the construction inspectors were with those things? Or maybe the purpose of the pentagram was to test, who tells those kinds of things to construction supervisors or even priests and sheriffs. 

If that mark has been made to a brick used in church. That could mean even a bonfire. Or maybe the construction worker would not be convicted to death. But always this kind of thing caused interrogation, which was a very uncomfortable experience. 

The own marks in the bricks could mean also. That samples of those bricks have been sold to the enemy.  And the enemy might know what kind of cannonballs they should use against the defense of the castle. The pentagram is connecting with witchcraft and paganism. 

Maybe that mark has been "proof" that the person was capable for some group like freemasons or some proto-Freemasonic group. So there is the possibility that the pentagram was some kind of gang test that served similar purposes with gang tests in the modern motorcycle- and other gangs. 

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