
I focus locked my camera, set it up on the tripod, set the shutter to 15 seconds, and drew an imaginary star of David!
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.
I focus locked my camera, set it up on the tripod, set the shutter to 15 seconds, and drew an imaginary star of David!
It is not clear who made this hexagram and why but to find this symbol on a German soil is always interesting...
Despite the star of david, Henschel und Sohn AG (see the HuS letters inside the star) are not a jewish manufacturer.
Well, the use of the six cornered star is not unusual in Hessen (I am living in south of Hessen, Kassel is in the north of Hessen).
E.g. both beer breweries are using this kind of star - and they are definitely not Jewish.
polly.jayne commented on evissa picture:
Looks almost like a dreamcatcher: just shows how one symbol can mean many things to many people.
Do you know what is the Hebrew Tetragrammaton inside aHe answered:
Star of David doing on this stained glass in St Ann's
Church, Manchester, England?
Yes both Queen Victoria and her son Edward VII are said to have been supporters of British Israelism. It is also said that Prince Albert (father of Edward VII) was really the son of a Jew Baron Moysen who was the lover of his mother.