Bosnia and Herzegovina Stamp

Right stamp sports a Solomon’s Seal pattern

Michel #309-10 (interior painting on Mosque, Hadzi Sinan Tekija, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Muslim part, issue from 2003).

Sent to me by Chastven Miloje (c) From Ashdod, Israel

Hexagrams in Diwali Decorations

Happy Diwali

Diwali Light festival is celebrated on the first day of Kartika month

(on October or November)

The frequent usage of hexagrams as one of many star motives in Indian culture
seems to relate to the most basic connection between
 the shape of the stars in  the skies
and their light

  CC picture by pangalactic gargleblaster from Flickr

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Hexagrams in Indian Sandpainting

Hexagrams are only one of many motifs of the Indian geometrical sandpainting made usually with rice powder. It is created by millions of Hindu women every morning in front of their houses in order to bring prosperity to their families. Rice powder is used to invite ants and birds to eat it… the idea is to contribute to the harmony of the world.

Hexagrams in Indian Sandpainting

Courtesy of Raji.srinivas from Wikipedia entry Kolam

Other names for Indian Sandpainting are: Alpana, Aripana, Madana, Rangoli, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Chowkpurana, Muggu.

Kolam made from Lentils

Courtesy of preetamrai from Flickr

Hexagram made from elements ordered as palindrom rows: 1-4-3-4-1

 Courtesy of kalyan from Flickr

Hexagram Pattern - Indian Sandpainting

 Courtesy of arimoore from Flickr

Indian Hexagram and Swastika

pattern indian women use everyday to make pictures or rangoli/kolam in front of the house or near the diety

Courtesy of 

Nagashree Naveen who published this picture on Flickr

with the caption

sudarshana chakra/mandala

Algeria banning a Koran because it has a Star of David on it

David referred me to a news story about Algeria banning a Koran because it has a Star of David on it

and added  that

Comment number 9 is interesting, it says: They will have to demolish the Dome of the rock because it has Stars of David all over.Comment 8 says the Star of David is common in Islamic art

Thanks 

David 

Nessim Sibony: 700 Stars of David on youtube

Nessim Sibony collected over 700 Stars of David and displayed them on 33 posters. He created a cd-rom slideshow of his collection, and video-taped  a small part of it to display on youtube. 

Star of David on the wall of Jerusalem's Old City

Star of David appears on at least four reliefs in the wall of Jerusalem's Old City. Actually it is a six-pointed star which is called by Muslims Solomon's Seal. the wall was built from 1535 to 1538 by Turkish Sultan Suleiman I (the Magnificent), whose name is an Arabic translation of the Hebrew Biblical name Solomon. These reliefs are not the only reliefs which decorate the old city walls - there are more than one hundred designs, some of them showing other symbols such as the Octagram, the star with eight points.

Photographed by Zeev Barkan

Solomon's Seal opposite the entrance to the Rockefeller Museum

Its triangles turn at forty-five degrees

So that it leans at its base on two points. 

A flower with six petals appears in its center and

outwardly, there are three leaves between any two points

Solomon's Seal  at Lion’s Gate opposite the police station

On both sides there are Octagrams (stars with eight points(

In the center there’s a small Solomon's Seal surrounded by six arrows

Each of the six triangles apex is placed on the center of a circle

Thanks to Dobush who referred me to this Solomon's Seal

Solomon's Seal West to the New Gate

hexagon inside Solomon's Seal surrounded by  triangles that turn at a forty-five degrees

So that it leans at its base on two points

Solomon's Seal in the parking lot opposite the entrance to the Rockefeller Museum

The Stars’ shape is made of two parallel lines, just like in the Israeli flag - only 500 years before it…

A flower with six petals appears in its center

Solomon's Seal in Jaffa Gate
In the center
 Surrounded by another Solomon's Seal