Thursday, January 25, 2007

Bracha Lavee –Brym

Bracha Lavee –Brym jewish starMagen David in Bracha Lavee –Brym's painting.
Bracha Lavee –Brym was born in Poland in 1948 and arrived in Israel in 1957…she enrolled in the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem.
The city of Jerusalem and stories from the Bible provide her with endless sources of inspiration.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

First Pentagram Drawer


The green leaves' angles do not obey exactly the rules of drawing a pentagram (Solomon’s seal), but I think that the first pentagram drawer might have been influenced by this innocent vegetable...

Monday, January 22, 2007

Gaulish Mosaics-5

Detail from the previous Gaulish Mosaic posting . The symbol on the bottom left looks like a swastika.
Source:
Inventaire de mosaique de la Gaule et de L'Afrique, Edition Leroux, Paris, 1922

Gaulish Mosaics-4

Hexagram at the upper left corner of a Gaulish mosaic floor as one of few symbols. Usually researchers say that geometric symbols serve a decorative purpose, but IMHO they serve a religious purpose and I hope to prove it in the near future. 
Source: Inventaire de mosaique de la Gaule et de L'Afrique, Edition Leroux, Paris, 1922. 299, Nimes, d'apres ARTAUD.

Basilica Mosaic at Shiloh, Israel

Mosaic Shiloh hexagram
A Star of David was discovered in the year 1927...The first archeological excavations began in the years 1922-1932 by a Danish expedition. The finds were placed in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen…
Picture is courtesy of Israel Medad

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Fishes Swimming in a Hexagram

I already published two photos of the mosaics at Casale near Piazza Armerina, Sicily. This one is a close-up on a detail from a bigger mosaic. Picture is courtesy of uromattox who published it on Flickr.

Robert Graves Poem

Robert Graves wrote a Poem titled Solomon's Seal which is actually about the 3D six pointed star which he calles "doubled pyramid":

Under each pyramid lies inverted
Its twin, the sister-bride to Pharaoh,
And so Solomon's seal bears witness.
Therefore we neither plead nor threaten
As lovers do who have lost faith-
Lovers not riven together by an oath
Sworn on the very brink of birth,
Nor by the penetrative ray of need
Piercing our doubled pyramid to its bed.
All time lies knotted here in Time's caress,
And so Solomon's seal bears witness.