One of the mysteries that we meet in “Colebantur Imagines” concerns that the Pentagram has got 10 points, and not five. The interior points outline a pentagon.  Two hands clasped together give the ten ‘Numbers’ or ten Sephiroth which form the Judaic Tree.

Sophocles mentions the game “Pente Grammai” but his account only describes a board having five lines. However Egyptian Pentalpha boards have survived on roofing slabs at the Temple of Kurna. The Greeks possibly obtained their Petteia and Kubeia pentagram games from the Egyptian. You have nine pebbles and the object is to get them each on one of the ten marked spots by various manoeuvres.