This blog (by Zeev Barkan) is dedicated to the Star of David, its history, its various meanings and usages in different cultures. It includes thousands of pictures of Star of David, six-pointed stars, hexagrams, Solomon's Seals, Magen Davids and yellow badges,and served as a resource for three books and four art exhibitions.
One of the reasons why it is so hard to find new info about hexagrams is that it has so many synonyms:Mercury, like Venus has a shorter orbit than Earth; in the case of Mercury, very much shorter. Mercury completes three orbits in just under 50 weeks, so that there are six conjunctions three inferior and three superior in each year. If all six are marked on the circle of the zodiac and the three inferior joined by lines drawn 1-2-3-1 and the three superior joined 1-2-3-1. The result is a hexagram the Star of David or Seal of Solomon.
The information…came from: Movement and Rhythms of the Stars; SCHULTZ, Joachim (translated by John Meeks);
In 1917 the British forces that conquered (then) Palestine
included a contingent of Anzac soldiers. Among them was a Jewish soldier
from New Zealand named Louis Salek. While serving in Egypt he had made
contact with the local Jewish community and was given a Jewish flag, half
blue and half white, with a Star of David in the middle.
In December 1917, Allenby, the British commander, made his official entry
into Jerusalem on foot, through the Jaffa Gate. Corporal Louis Salek (Za"L)
who had prepared for the moment and had the flag in his backpack, quietly
detached himself from the soldiers and climbed up to the top of David's
Tower and flew the flag! As a result for the first 20 minutes of the
official ceremony in Jerusalem of the British conquest of Palestine, a
Jewish flag was flying from David's Tower.
