Photo of Star of David on a plate ornamented with flowers and with the Hebrew names of the twelve tribes is courtesy of Tzfat artist Ron CohenCopyright: Ron Cohen 2007
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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.
Photo of Star of David on a plate ornamented with flowers and with the Hebrew names of the twelve tribes is courtesy of Tzfat artist Ron Cohen
Photo of Star of David on a plate ornamented with flowers is courtesy of Ron Cohen (b. in Haifa in 1957)
Photo of six Yellow Badges which stand for the zeroes in the number Six Million on the smoke that arises from the Nazi concentration camps chimneys is courtesy of illustrator and artist Sabina Saad.
Photo of a hexagram at the entrance to the small Hanuman temple at Janadapura is courtesy of "Steve Weary Family" who published it on Flickr and wrote to me: This photo comes from a Hindu temple in Kerala, South India dedicated to Hannuman, a monkey god. The Star of David is quite common in Hindu iconography but it is called something else, I think the double star.
Tetraktys is a mystical counting system graphically represented by a pyramid composed of dots arranged in rows. The Tetraktys of the number ten is made of ten dots arranged in four rows representing the numbers 1-4 (1+2+3+4=10).
Photo of light in the shape of Hexagram in the hermit’s lantern is courtesy of Tali Rabinovich, Tasha Gallery, 42 Frishman, Tel Aviv, Phone: 972-50-6565552 who wrote to me that the hermit is lead by the Star of David. This card recommends us to get out of the present reality and see the right way without others' intervention.
Photo of Hexagram on the belt of the magician is courtesy of Tali, Tasha Gallery, 42 Frishman, Tel Aviv, Phone: 972-50-6565552 who wrote to me that the magician is focused and lucid and that’s why he controls his life.