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.
In the Kali yantra, the goddess is represented by the eight-petalled lotus, which stand for the eight elements : earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect and ego-sense.
Photo is courtesy of Hayim Shtayer who bought this figurine in the Jewish Ethiopian community of Chatzrot Yasaf, caravan site in northern Israel, which was dismantled afterwards. The Lion of Judah and the six-pointed star are emblems of former Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie, therefore it is not clear if the artist made this figurine because he was Ethiopian or because he was Jewish.
This is one of four stamps issued by Yugoslavia on January 1, 1942 to mark the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade. These stamps show Yugoslavia crushing the Masonic-Communist-Jewish plot to dominate the world… The above stamp shows Masonry wearing an apron wuth the Star of David bending in fear from a strong ray of light.
Photo of swastika along with Moslem seal of Solomon and other religious symbols on a mosaic from the period of Mughal emperor Akbar (1542 – 1605) is courtesy of "sparklechops" who published it on Flickr.
Currently I’m designing my new book and above you see its opening page. My Friend Dvorit Ben Shaul said that it looks like a Star of David. You have to imagine a triangle that goes down from the apex (to the word “no” on the left and to the word “or” on the right) and another one that goes from bottom to the edges of the book’s name.
It seems like I’m so absorbed in this emblem that it influences my page designs subconsciously…
