-3-Pentagon has five sides, which correlates with The Law Of Fives, which was discovered by the great Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, H.C., to be that everything happens in fives or is divisible into five parts (for a more complete explaination of this, read Book I "The Five Pillars of Rubbish" in his Holy Work The Honest Book Of Truth). As one of the five Apostles of Eris put it: "The truth is Five, but we have only one name for it." (If you must know, that particular Apostle was Krishna Argumentium.) On the other half, The Golden Apple of Discord was chosen to symbolize the Eristic Principle and refers to the only extant myth of the Greek Goddess of Strife & Discord, ERIS. That myth follows shortly. The official colors of the Discordian Society are blue, red, green, chartruese, puse, heliotrope, tutti-fruitti, green, vermillion, navy black,amdand yellow; however, we usually render the emblem as silver bordered, with golden pentagon and apple, all on a black or darkened background, because that way it is sort of pretty.
-3.1-A note about rendering The Pentagon. This symbol is included in many of the emblems of the various sub-divisions and in all cases (including the DS Emblem itself) it should be drawn in a particular position. You see, inherrent in every pentagon is a pentagram (made from drawing a line from each point to every other point) which is a very old Mystical Symbol. A strange thing about The Pentagram is that it could be used for mystifying Good or Evil; in white magic it was used with one point ascending and two points descending, and whn used for black magic then it had two points up and one down. Well, we don't want to appear biased, so we always render one point to the left and two points to the right, which results in 1½ points up and 1½ points down--and everybody is happy, particularly Eris.