Monday, February 12, 2007

Car Air Freshener

Magen David, Peace Dove, Car Air Freshener, white and blue as the Israeli flag, and on the bag there is also a Jewish Prayer For The Road- all these for 5 NIS. No wonder I see it on many cars. The Hebrew white on blue letters say: I haven't got another country.

Rock Art Images

Jack H. Doty (Retired Professor, Missoula, Montana) wrote on the ARARA (American Rock
Art Research Association) 2002 Conference Program that he took pictures of Six-Pointed Star of David  in Saudi Arabia which is dated prior to the advent of Islam.

Zeev Raban

In the catalogue of "Zeev Raban Exhibition" that was held in the Tel Aviv Museum, 2002, appears a gate with repeated Magen David design. Zeev Raban came to Palestine in 1912 to help Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel School. He frequently used traditional Jewish motifs along with oriental, Classical Greek, and Art Nouveau elements.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

My Blog Report By Category

ART = 40 postings including paintings, poems, architecture
BIBLIOGARPHY = 1 posting
GROUPS- Non-Jewish who use the Star of David = 72 postings
HISTORY = 98 postings
ISRAEL = 20 postings
JEWISH = 82 postings
LOGO = 5 e.g. Customs, Zim
MEANING =123 postings
NAME = 2 postings
ORIGIN = 21 postings e.g. tabernacle menorah, salt, compasses
SHAPE = 58 postings e.g. hex alpha, inside a circle. 3 rhombs
USAGE 145 postings e.g. lampshade, necklace, vase
ZIONISM 21 postings
Total: 682 postings

Finlandian Armorial Banner


In Finland there’s a province called Häme (Tavastia) which has an armorial banner with three six pointed silver stars. Picture is copied from Wikipedia.

Cactus


This cactus Hexagram  is growing in the Botanic Gardens, St. Andrews, Scotland but SecretAgent99 wrote to me that she's actually not sure what this type of cactus is actually called. 
I believe that importing this cactus to Israel might be a prosperous enterprise, because many people would welcome it in their gardens, just to show their neighbors how patriotic they are...
Picture is courtesy of "SecretAgent99" who published it on Flickr

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Nomidia

There's a photo of an interlaced hexagram with round edges in the Catalogue des Mosaiques Romaines et Paleochretiennes du musee du Louvre, Paris, 1978 by Francois Barette p. 32.
This hexagram is inside a medallion which is part of a mosaic pavement of 8X7 meters together with 35 other medallions found in Roman Nomidia.