Tetraktys is a mystical counting system graphically represented by a pyramid composed of dots arranged in rows. The Tetraktys of the number ten is made of ten dots arranged in four rows representing the numbers 1-4 (1+2+3+4=10)
This may help understand how the Seal of Solomon with the inscription of the Shield of David might have looked like.
| Star of David Time Table |
| Israelite slaves in Egypt crystallized salt with Magen Davids made from straw (David Bloch's theory) Egypt 17 BCE |
| Magen David was created as an ornament in the Menorah Tabernacle (Uri Ofir's theory) Desert, 13 BCE |
| King David used it as his shield, Jerusalem, 10 BCE |
| King Solomon used it on his ring , Jerusalem, 10 BCE |
| On a wall of a room, Megiddo, 9 BCE |
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| On a seal belonging to Joshua b. Asayahu, Sidon, 7 BCE |
| The Ten lost tribes that were exiled by king of Assyria, 7 BCE |
| Kagome crest at some of Shinto's oldest and most important temples, Japan, 5 BCE |
| On Jar handles found by archeologist Sukenik, Israel, 1 BCE |
| It was the shape of Bar Kochba's Shield in his revolt against the Roman Empire, Israel, 2 CE |
| In a synagogue, Capernaum, 3 CE |
| On a Jewish tombstone, Taranto, 3 CE |
| On a Magic bowl found in 1853, Kinneret, 3 CE |
| On a rock excavated at a synagogue, Eshtamoa, 3 CE |
| In a Synagogue, Horbat Shura, 5 CE |
| Used by Khazars, Caucasus, 5 -10 CE |
| On a cover page of the Leningrad Codex, Leningrad, 11 CE |
| In a Synagogue, Hamelin, 13 CE |
| On a Tanakh manuscript, Toledo, 13 CE |
| On the flag of the Jewish community, Prague, 14 CE |
| On a flag of an allegorical figure in a Catalan manuscript, Catalonia, 14 CE |
| In a Kabbalistic book titled Sefer ha-Gevul, 14 CE |
| On a red flag when the Jews of Ofen received King Mathios Kuruvenus, Budapest, 15 CE |
| In the first Hebrew prayer book, Prague, 16 CE |
| On the walls of Jerusalem, 16 CE |
| As a trademark for Jewish printers, Europe, 16 CE |
| Isaac Luria taught that the elements of the plate for the Seder evening have to be placed in the order of the hexagram, Tzfat, 16 CE |
| On the tombstone of David Gans, the astronomer and historian, Prague, 17 CE |
| On a stone marking the boundary between the Jewish and the Christian quarters, Vienna, 17 CE |
| Used by Sabbatai Zvi, the false messiah, 17 CE |
| Rothschild incorporated it into his family coat of arms, Germany, 17 CE |
| On the Jewish community seal, Vienna, 17 CE |
| On a medallion and as part of the community's seal, Amsterdam, 17 CE |
| On wedding stones in synagogues, Germany, 17 CE |
| Alchemists began calling it the shield of David, Europe, 18 CE |
| Tombstone, Bordeaux, 18 CE |
| As a specific Jewish sign in a satirical anti-Semitic engraving, 18 CE |
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| Heinrich Heine signed his letters with a Magen David instead of his name, Paris, 19 CE |
| On the walls of a synagogue which was built from the remains of an ancient synagogue, Peki'in, 19 CE |
| The symbol of the first Zionist groups Bilu, Hovevei Zion etc. Europe, 19 CE |
| The Jewish Gauchos of the Pampas, Argentina, 19 CE |
| On the first edition of Herzl's newspaper Die Welt, 19 CE |
| Ephraim Moses Lilien's "From Ghetto to Zion" postcard, Bazel, 19 CE |
| On Edler von Lamel School building, Jerusalem, 20 CE |
| On a poster for the recruitment to the Jewish Legion, 20 CE |
| On the badge of the Zion Mule Corps soldiers, Turkey, 20 CE |
| Franz Rosenzweig wrote the Star of Redemption, 20 CE |
| On the old Technion building, Haifa, 20 CE |
| Yellow badges in the Holocaust, Europe, 20 CE |
| Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia, Birobidzhan , 20 CE |
| On Jewish Money, Ghetto Lodz , 20 CE |
| On the Israeli flag, Israel , 20 CE |
| Gershom Scholem wrote his prominent, research about the Star of David, Israel , 20 CE |
One of the ways I keep in touch with my readers is through the Site Meter. In the past 3 months since I started this blog it had 1,571 visits (including my 500), average per Day was 23 visitors, average visit length was 3:19 minutes. These figures meet my humble expectations.
I also collect Key Words that retrieved articles that had a good position on the main search engines. So here is my collection for the last few days, just to share with you my excitement when I find out that a certain article "made it" and is situated in the first ten results that readers get when they want to know something.
| Search Engine | Place | Out of | Date | Key Words |
| MSN | 2 | 10,619,727 | 06/06/2006 | star of David |
| Google | 1 | 49.900 | 06/06/2006 | Magen David lily |
| MSN | 1 | 1,623,643 | 06/06/2006 | meaning of star of David |
| Yahoo | 3 | 29,300 | 07/06/2006 | 3 dimensional star of David necklace |
| Google | 3 | 372,000 | 07/06/2006 | Photoshop star of David shape |
| Google | 9 | 7,020,000 | 07/06/2006 | Jewish gangs |
| Google | 3 | 84 400 | 07/06/2006 | FOA TOBIAS |
| Yahoo | 6 | 6,860,000 | 08/06/2006 | pink star of David |
| Google | 10 | 14,000 | 08/06/2006 | Lilien, Ephraim |
| Google | 2 | 174,000 | 11/06/2006 | 6 pointed sheriff badge |
| Google | 2 | 20,100 | 11/06/2006 | Christian hexagrams |
| Google | 3 | 539,000 | 11/06/2006 | brewer's star |
| Google | 4 | 6,140 | 12/06/2006 | Yachin an Boaz |
| Google | 1 | 26,600 | 13/06/2006 | kagome crest |
| Google | 7 | 538,000 | 13/06/2006 | star of David pagan origins |
| Google | 5 | 11,900,000 | 13/06/2006 | Jews star mean |
| Google | 5 | 9,020,000 | 13/06/2006 | Jewish gangs |
| xtraMSN | 2 | 19,683,091 | 13/06/2006 | star of David |
| xtraMSN | 2 | 840 | 13/06/2006 | Smadar Yaaron |
| Google | 10 | 294,000 | 14/06/2006 | origins Star of David pagan symbol |
| Google | 4 | 36,700 | 14/06/2006 | flag of Zion Mule Corps |
| Yahoo | 1 | 2,150,000 | 15/06/2006 | images where the star of David appears |
| Google | 3 | 4,350,000 | 15/06/2006 | Origin of Star of David in India |
| Google | 1 | 257.000 | 15/06/2006 | Jewish soldiers ww2 |
| Google | 4 | 8,800,000 | 15/06/2006 | star of David 1 dollar bill |
| Google | 1 | 97,200 | 15/06/2006 | Marc Chagall painting Star |