“...the blazing star of five points...represented Sirius...” - Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma

"The heliacal rising of Sirius was also important to other ancient
peoples. Here is a description by the ancient Greek poet Aratus ... of
the rising of Sirius (often known as the Dog Star as it is in the
constellation Canis, or Dog): 'The tip of his [the Dog's] terrible jaw is
marked by a star that keenest of all blazes with a searing flame and
him men call Sirius.'

"Throughout Latin literature there are many references to the
'Dog Days' which followed the heliacal rising of Sirius in the summer.
These hot, parched days were thought by that time to derive some of
their ferocity and dryness from the 'searing' of Sirius." (Temple, pp.
87-88).

Further on in this study we shall see that a key ritual sacrifice
intended to imprint the Group Mind of the masses of the 1970s-the
Son of Sam murders-involved the widely disseminated claim that the
"mad" killer(s) had taken orders from a dog named Sam. The
capture of one of the killers in the cult, David Berkowitz, coincided
with the coming of the Dog Days of summer, August, 1977.

In Satanist Albert Pike's eighth degree of the Scottish Rite of
Freemasonry, the focus of worship is on the "blazing star" as
symbolized by the pentagram, and Pike identifies Sirius as the
“grand builder” or “Great Architect” of Freemasonry
The symbol (or, alchemically, sigil) of the armed enforcers of the
Code of Hammurabi, which was the law of the empire of Babylon,
the successor to Sumer, was the five-pointed star, or pentagram.14
The distinguishing characteristic of the Babylonian law code was that
“the laws were not the same for the rich and the poor.”

This star also happens to be the symbol of the armed enforcers
of modem America’s laws, and it was also a symbol of the enforcers
of the Communist regime in Russia. Is it an accident that both the
army of the Soviet Union and the policemen of America wear the
secret symbol of Sirius?
“...the blazing star of five points...represented Sirius...”
Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma

Sirius is emblematic of hidden power and secret allegiance to an
invisible empire: “The Order of the ...Star is thus the order of the Eye
of Set, the sun behind the sun....the ...Star is Sirius...Sirius is the
power behind the sun...Our work is...the rediscovery of the
Sumerian tradition...the crux of...magical significance for the present
magical revival...the key supplied by the Sumerian tradition which
involved the worship of Shaitan, the astronomical vehicle of which
was Sirius.”

Shaitan was one of the names of the devil-god of Sumer, a
civilization so old the adjective “ancient” seems hopelessly
inadequate as a description for it. However, it was not too
antediluvian for Thomas Harris, who put it into the mouths of two
gypsies in his 1999 bestseller, Hannibal. At the end of chapter 26 the
gypsy woman Romula, upon espying the monstrous protagonist Dr.
Lecter, declares: “That is the Devil, Shaitan, Son of the Morning, I’ve
seen him now.” At the end of chapter 29, the gypsy Esmerelda
curses a policeman (by spitting on his shadow), because he handed
another gypsy over “to Shaitan.”

The name Shaitan is a form of Set, one of the myriad names, in
this case Egyptian, for the entity Sirius (Sothis), the star of the
goddess Isis as well as of the jackal-headed deity, Anubis.

Set is “represented as having the body of a human with a thin-
curved snout and square-shaped ears and sometimes with a tail...”
(Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable). Set,
through its root sut, literally denotes soot, “the black filth of sin.” In
Egypt, Set-Sirius was known as An (the dog), hence Set-an (Satan).