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.

Sunday, December 21, 2008

My Book Record in the Library

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Looking for keywords “Star of David” I was surprised to find my own book record in the results’ page of the Israel Antiquities Authority Lib...

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Shield and Star, King David and Hercules

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This Greek Terracotta Drinking Cup (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC), which is dated to ca. 560 B.C.E., shows Hercules fight...

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Friday, December 19, 2008

Free Masons’ hexagram

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Picture of Free Masons’ hexagram on the building of the lodge of Edinburgh in Scotland is courtesy of “tillwe” from Flickr.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Olive Wood Candlestick

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For Chanukah, which starts next week, Aviram Paz from Kibbutz Mishmar Ha'emek prepared in his amateur carpentry workshop this original o...

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

48 Triangles David Stars

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48 Triangles make 2 David Stars, one inside the other I created this Photoshop work influenced by the same pattern at the Ishak Bey Mosque,...

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Another Brewery Six Pointed Star From Iowa

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This is a Six Pointed Star from the floor of the Brewery at Dubuque, Iowa, USA. It continues a long chain of relationships between the hexag...

Monday, December 15, 2008

P. D. Ouspensky: Union of Space and Time

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Here's a new meaning of the six-pointed star, which no one mentioned [in this blog] until now: The six-pointed star which represented t...

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zeevveez: I Published 22 books - 10 in print and 12 online. The full list appears on my Flickr Profile. Among them: Star of David Album [English]; Star of David Black and White [Hebrew]; Yellow Badge Album [Hebrew] Thing's Name [Hebrew], I am Such a Brazilian Woman [Hebrew, Iton 77] with co-author Iara Czeresnia. I Initiated several art shows about the Star of David, about the yellow star and about the Old Testament

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