Shabtai Zvi Star of David Symbols

The Shabtai Zvi Star of David Symbols

In the explanation of the exhibition Nechama Lvendel - Nadav Bloch "Dönmeh - Following Shabtai Zvi" at the "Tova Osman" gallery in Tel Aviv it was written that the municipal gallery of Ulcin (Monte Negro State, formerly part of Yugoslavia on the border with Albania) has a a niche on the third floor surmounted by two Star of David symbols carved in stone. According to locals this place was a gathering place of Shabtai Tzvi and his followers. Shabtai Zvi was exiled to Ulcin and had been buried there. His grave is located indoors and is considered a holy place.

Copyright: Nechama Levendel and Nadav Bloch, Israeli Artists.

Impossible Sculptures par Francis TABARY Francis

Copyright: Francis TABARY 2009

Copyright: Francis TABARY 2009

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Copyright: Francis TABARY 2009

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Copyright: Francis TABARY 2009

Brewers' Star Marks a brewery in Germany

Picture courtesy of Soul of Beer from Flickr

Hamsa- Hand of Fatima- with Hexagram

Taken by: SaReGaMa 2009
Hexagram on a hamsa door knob
at a Jewish house in Haifa

Taken by: SaReGaMa 2009

Fatimid Solomon’s Seal

Fatimid Solomon’s Seal on coin - courtesy of PHGCOM from Wikipedia entry Al-Mustansir (Caliph in Cairo from 1226 to 1242).

Thanks to Dr. Muboriz Amonbekov for his email:

Official Dinar of the Fatimid Empire of Egypt minted during the reign of the Caliph-Imam Al-Mustansir Billah in Sicily in the 1050s.  For additional information you can check this link from British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1857-0101-3. 

Thanks to Dobush for referring me to this picture

New Xmas celebration downtown Amsterdam

Thanks to Jordan who Sent me this Christian Hexagram picture from his iPhone

Star of Bethlehem

Star of Bethlehem Candlestick

Made in Bethlehem, Israel

Copyright: Zako 2009

Star of David Cures Colds

Thanks to Jason Gordon from Pondside, Jamaica Plain

who sent me this add which was published in 1851

Star of David on an armband of a Kapo

Courtesy of Norlu from Wikipedia entry: Kapo (concentration camp)

Thanks to SaReGaMa for referring me to this picture

Serpent God Indian Hexagram

18th century depiction of the awakening of kundalini force - the serpent of Shiva

My new Star of David Bookmark

Star of David Shaped Tombstone

Star of David Shaped Tombstone at the

United Jewish Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio

first burial in 1850

Courtesy of elycefeliz from Flickr

Indian Hexagrams and snakes

18th century depiction of the Birth of the World. Hexagrams appear above the shoulders of the central blue figure.

Star of David Watch

The points of the Star of David show the even numbers (hours) 12, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10

The angles between the points show the odd numbers (hours) 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11

Christian-Hexagram

Christian-Hexagram above crosses

Copyright: Zako 2009

Star of David Lod Mosaic

Stars of David as a framework for animals on a Roman Mosaic Floor from the 3-4 th century C.E. discovered in Lod, Israel, by Miriam Avissar in 1996.Size: 19x9 square meters.
Although the star seems round note the hexagon surrounded by six triangles, which is a form that is acually seen in every “empty" Star of David which is composed of two equilatteral triangles, but here a Guilloche separates between the hexagons and the triangles.
Photos are published here courtesy of Oded Israeli and all rights are reserved to him.

Zimtsterne

Zimtsterne is a traditional German Cinnamon Christmas cookie and it has the shape of a mostly six sometimes 5-pointed star .

Picture is courtesy of franziskas garten from Flickr

and I found it thanks to my friend Gideon

Star of David on Jewelry by David Weitzman

Designed by David Weitzman from Ka Gold Jewelry

Hebrew: Birkat Kohanim (Priestly Blessing)

Designed by David Weitzman from Ka Gold Jewelry

Berber Six pointed Stars

Six pointed Stars above mysterious marks carved on a Berber stone lamp bought recently by David Mimon while visiting the Sahara Desert, Morocco. If you can decipher this writing you are invited to write to Eli Eshed, who published an article about this lamp in his blog: "the universe of Eli Eshed". It seems to me that the Hebrew word on the right is "cancer".

elieshe@zahav.net.il

http://www.notes.co.il/eshed/60481.asp

Leningrad Codex Carpet Page with David Shield

Detail from Leningrad Codex Carpet Page with David Shield painted and not drawn from micrographic writing.

Copied from L'ornament Hebreu, the edition which Vladimir Stassof & David Gunzburg issued in 1905

Codex Leningrad 1905- David Star

From: L'ornament Hebreu, Vladimir Stassof & David Gunzburg, 1905

Purity in Politics banner with Stars of David

This banner is hanging in the headquarters of the League of Women Voters in Washington DC

Copyright: Kathy P. Chiron 2009

Star of David on a Birthday Card

Star of David on a Birthday Card

Macro Photography

Bronze Star of David Sculpture

Bronze Star of David Sculpture by Yoel Ziv from Kibbutz Kalia.

All rights reserved to Yoel Ziv 2009

Star of David on Fragrant Candles

Nationalistic blue and white candles

Solomon Seals at Iran Tabriz Blue Mosque

Picture is courtesy of Eliza_Tasbihi from Flickr

Tabriz Blue Mosque was built in 1465, damaged in an earthquake in 1779, rebuilt in 1973

Translation of Star of David into different languages

German Davidstern
Arabic ">نجمة داوود Czech Davidova hvězda
Danish Davidsstjerne
Spanish Estrella de David
Finnish Daavidint
French Etoile de David
Italian Maghen David
Dutch Davidster
Polish Gwiazda Dawida
Portugese Estrela de Davi
Rumanian David Steaua

Russian Звезда Давида
Swedish Davidsstjärna
Chinese 大衛星
Turkish Davud'un Kalkani
Japanese ダビデの星

Russian Yellow Badge Inquiry

Copyright: Marianne G Petrino-Schaad 2009

Marianne wrote to me:

I was wondering if you have seen an authentic yellow star patch with the word for Jew in Russian embroidered on it?
I wondered why someone would make a patch that uses Russian?

I got this patch in June at an antique show. The seller had it in her possession for 30 years. She had bought it from a man in Carlisle, PA, whose father was in WWII and a member of the Nazi party. I have donated it to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. They believe it is a fake patch.
I wonder why anyone would make a fake patch using Russian, instead of German, so it got me to thinking:
could there be an original model?
If so, where would it have come from?

Six Pointed Star on an Ancient City Wall

If a city is an organic entity, its walls are like the skin of a human being, and inscriptions on this wall are like tattoos. There are 4 Six-pointed star on the walls of Jerusalem, Israel, and one on the wal of Byblos, Lebanon. Here we see another one on the city wall of Diyarbakır, largest city in southeastern Turkey,

which was built before the Roman era, but it is not clear when was this star inscripted.

Courtesy of kurdistan کردستان from Flickr

Moroccan Solomon Seal

Marrakech, Mosque

Courtesy of "only alice" from Flickr

Fes Mosaic

Courtesy of Pixelmaniac from Flickr

Anti Semitic Attack

The star of David makes it easy for anti- Semites to identify Jewish targets. In this case we see a burnt tombstone at Undercliffe Cemetery (founded in 1854) North of England

Picture is courtesy of lant_70 from Flickr

Jewish Star Arm Tattoo

Picture is courtesy of Hadi Orr

Picture is courtesy of Hadi Orr

Six Pointed Star Fortress

Architectura of fortresses, Strasbourg 1589By Daniel Hamstead, (1536-1589), 

military engineer, engineer and cartographer

Karlovac, Croatia 1774

A whole town inside a fortress, which was built

in the shape of a six-pointed star

against the advancing Turks

Karlovac is named after Austro-Hungarian tsar Carl

Picture was uploaded to Wikimedia by Neoneo13 (Thanks Neoneo13!)

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About 1680 Nové Zámky in Slovakia was built according to a similar plan

Picture uploaded to Wikipedia by Poganyp.

Star of David Sculpture at Gottingen, Germany

You"ll have to lay eyes on the picture until the shape of the Star will form in your mind.

Memorial created in 1973 by Conrad Cagli

Notice the additional star of David on the pavement!

Outside view of the above sculpture

Pictures were uploaded to Wikimedia by Daniel Schwen (thanks, Daniel!)

Shot at the Platz der Synagoge, Göttingen, Germany

Indian Hexagram on Cochin State Post Stationery

From:

India and Israel, Bombay 1951 p. 23-26, The shield of David

Door Knocker

Fatima Hand Chamsa with Six-pointed Stars

Shot at

Kefalonia Island, Greece

Picture is courtesy of "Tony Tea" from Flickr

I Think that this combination of Chamsa and Six-pointed Stars

is meant to act double efficiently against Evil Eye

The design of this door knocker has a commercial potential

Tattoo Showing Fatima Hand with David-Shield

Picture is courtesy of Shannon Archuleta from Fickr

Star of David as a Frame in a Tefillin Cover

The left Star of David frames the Hebrew word for head (meaning the tefillin for the head) while the right Star of David frames the Hebrew word for hand (meaning the tefillin for the hand).

Picture is courtesy of Sharon Pazner From Flickr.