Friday, August 24, 2007

Megiddo

Megiddo history hexagram six-pointed star I took this photo from William Graham’s book, Culture and Conscience, Chicago University press, 1936, p. 245 and colored it a bit in Photoshop.
Graham wrote that it is incised on the side of a building of Megiddo. He thinks that this  symbol originated in astrology and referred to S.A. Cook, The religion of Ancient Palestine in the light of Archaeology, pp. 213.
S.A. Cook wrote there:
Distinctively Jewish are…the pentagram or seal of Solomon, and the hexagram, or Shield of David…they may be of astral origin (Hilprecht, Explorations in Bible Lands, p. 529).
I already mentioned that professor Michael Costa wrote in his Hebrew book about the Golden Section that this Magen David, same as we recognize it today, drawn in lines, is from the period of King Ahab(853 - 874 B.C).

Thursday, August 23, 2007

church door at Almeria, Spain

Photo of hexagram on a church door at Almeria, andalucia Spain, dated 1741 is courtesy of "evissa"

Carmelite Order

Photo of three hexagrams around a Carmelite Cross on a crest at Albox parish church, Almeria province, Spain, is courtesy of evissa who published it on Flickr. 
On a web page about THE CARMEL EMBLEM I saw a pentagram not a hexagram and the caption tells us that this is the star of Mary, but
Some think that the central star was originally thought of as an opening, not a star, which represented the cave in which Elijah sheltered when the Lord appeared to him as the still small wind.

Glass Mosaic

Photo of Glass Mosaic Star of David is courtesy of Felicia Poes from WeBeTilin' Studios Elmira, New York, who published it on Flickr and wrote to me:

I am a Mosaic Artist and this was an early piece of mine. It has hebrew text cut from an old hebrew childrens book decoupaged on the surface. It is then covered with hand cut stained glass tiles and grouted. The grout was sealed with a gold leaf finish.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Propaganda

Photo of a Star of David over the head of a poisonous snake representing the Jews is courtesy of "ji the pee" who published it on Flickr with the caption:
the da vinci code is fiction but i know of several people who are confused now about the status of Jesus Christ because of it. in the same way, the protocols
was a fictional account of a jewish conspiracy but a lot of people did (and perhaps still do) consider it kind of true.

Anti-Semitism and Zionism

Photo of Stars of David on Anti-Israel demonstration signs is courtesy of "El Marco" who published it on Flickr under the title
God Will Send Mushroom Cloud on Israel

There’s an interesting connection between Anti-Semitism and Zionism- they trigger each other:
Herzl started his Zionist activity as a direct result of Dreifus Affair, which he covered as a journalist. On the other hand The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion started as a result of the first Zionist congress in Bazel. (Which is mentioned in the last chapter there).
It is a known estimation that the state of Israel was founded as an answer to anti- Semitism in general and to the Holocaust in particular.
This connection between Anti-Semitism and Zionism goes back to the days of Pharaoh and the overwhelming answer to Anti-Semitism is supplied already there:
Exodus 1:12
But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread…

Book covers of The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion

Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion Magen David I intend to publish here, on this web site, Book-covers of The

Protocols of The Elders Of Zion

which contain the Star of David. I think such a collection will be a good demonstration to the Anti-Semites’ hate of the Star of David, which equals in its intensity the love of the Zionists and the Pro-Zionists to the same emblem.

On the cover of the edition of the Patriotic Publishing Co., 1934. Chicago, there’s a red Star of David with the Hebrew letters of the name of the LORD. (Photo is courtesy of Wikipedia).

On the cover of the Spanish-language edition published in Mexico City in 2005 there’s a Star of David in the center of a hand while on the fingers there are the signs of Dollar, Cross, Swastica, Communism, and Free-Masons.

Ota Ryu published in Tokyo, 2004 a Star of David above a crow with human face that looks like an Orthodox Jew.

On the fromtpiece of Nilus 1912 edition there’s a Star of David alongside occult symbols that read: "Thus we shall win", "Mark of antichrist", "Tetragrammaton", "INRI", "Tarot", "Great mystery".