Akiva Kenneth Segan, Mosaic

Photo of Star of David mosaic/drawing is courtesy of Seattle artist Akiva Kenneth Segan
Title: Life & Death In The Ghetto.
Created in August - December, 2005.
Mosaic made from colored glass and ceramic plates, bowls and cups.
The drawing media is ink, gouache & colored pencil.
Size: 3 feet x six feet.
Copyright: Akiva Kenneth Segan 2007
PO Box 1721, Seattle, WA 98111 U.S.A.
Phone: (206) 624-4154 e-mail: underwings@connectexpress.com

Knot Rope

An amazingly successful design of a knot rope in the shape of a Star of David on the Israeli scouts jubilee Stamp.

Window Grill Istanbul

Photo of a peculiar rounded Star of David in a window grill at the Beit Israel small synagogue, in Istanbul's Sisli neighborhood; courtesy of Doc Kozzak who published it on Flickr. The synagogue was the target of a terrorist attack on November 15 2003. Completely destroyed at the time of the attack, it was almost rebuilt since. The district is mainly Christian, but Jews and Moslems live there too.

Aviva Beigel, Infusion

Photo of a yellow badge in a detail from a work by Artist Aviva Beigel titled infusion is courtesy of the artist.
Title:Blood connection
Iron grid, plastic wires, and ceramic figures.
The work deals with the connection between people, what do one give to the other, especially if they belong to a family. Each figure has a characterization of its own and one figure has a yellow badge as a characterization of its nation. The figures are bound to steel – they are not free.

http://www.avivabeigel.com
972-3-6478445
Copyrights: Aviva Beigel 2007

British Nigeria

This is how the flag of British Nigeria looked between 1 Jan 1900 - 1 Oct 1960

vegreville egg

Photo of six pointed stars on the vegreville egg is courtesy of "striatic" who published it on Flickr.
Vegreville is a town in central Alberta, Canada. …The July Pysanka (Ukrainian Easter egg) Festival showcases Ukrainian culture in Alberta. A large percentage of Vegreville's population is of Ukrainian Canadian descent. The world's largest pysanka was created to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1974 and to celebrate Vegreville's ethnic heritage.

The Sacred Symbols of Mu

James Churchward wrote in his book (The Sacred Symbols of Mu By , 1933) that  the two triangles within a circle enable 12 divisions representing the 12 gates to heaven Each gate represents  a virtue : Love, Faith, Hope Charity etc. Churchward claims that Mu was a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean, which was destroyed  tens of thousands of years ago; He tells that while serving with the British Army for thirty years he befriended a priest, who revealed to him ancient tablets written in an unknown language and taught him how to read this language, Naacal. The tablets were discovered in Mexico by an explorer named William Niven.