Sunday, March 18, 2012

The six pointed star of Armenia

Read the extensive  post by peopleofar

Harichavank Monastery, Armenia, 13th century
Source Wikipedia entry-  Harichavank Monastery
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Armenia, Goshavank monastery, XII-XIII
Source Wikipedia entry-  Goshavank Monastery
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Hasan-Jalal_coat_of_arms from 1214
Bottom: Hexagram framing the wheel of eternity symbol
 Source Wikipedia entry-  House of Hasan-Jalalyan
Wheel of eternity on the Tombstone of Hasan Jalal-Vahtangian
(1214-1261)
Source Wikipedia

Wheel of eternity on the Tombstone of Hasan Jalal-Vahtangian
(1214-1261)
Source Wikipedia
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Hexagrams on the walls of 13th Century Noravank monastery  
Source Wikipedia entry-Noravank

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Bell Tower of Santa Maria in Strada Church

Christian star of David at the 
Bell Tower of Santa Maria in Strada Church
 Monza  ITALY 1421

Friday, March 09, 2012

Non Jewish Six pointed Star

Six pointed Star from Feb. 18, 1861
commemorating the exact place
on the Capitol steps in Montgomery Alabama where 
 Jefferson Davis stood when inaugurated President of the
Confederate States of America
Photographer: silviac44 from Flickr


Monday, March 05, 2012

Finger Tattoo

Star of David Finger Tattoo 
Courtesy of Joshua Samuels

Thursday, March 01, 2012

More Stars of David in the Genizah Project

I already wrote in 2006-7 about two manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah which include Stars of David, but now that The Friedberg  Genizah Project is online it is a whole new game. I salute the organizers of this web site for their extraordinary achievement. It took me sometime to register and install Java, but eventually I found a few more Genizah manuscripts which include Stars of David:
T-S AS 54.138 (1v) shows a fine Star of David made from small lines. There's also  a rhombus in the same page.
T-S Misc 1.75 is a page from Psalms 64-66 and it has on the right side a small vertical floral ornament which ends with a tiny Star of David made from one line.
T-S 125.94 has two small Stars of David and one which is larger and in it some Hebrew words from which I recognized the Hebrew words (in capital letters): Morasha Kehilat Ya'acov. In one of the two small Stars of David I recognized one of the two cursive Hebrew words - Tor.
T-S 135.169 has on the first from four leafs two Stars of David, one with a point in its center. On the second leaf there are 5 jotted  Stars of David and in the center of the sixth there's a point in the center.
T-S 150.195 has at its bottom a few lines filled with small Stars of David.
T-S 297.90 – according to its description it has a Star of David in a magical context in Arabic but I couldn't see the image.
Cambridge, CUL: Or.1080 1.63 2v1 Arabic letters Magic many stars of David on rows 2,4,5  Source of information: Gideon Bohak, Head of FGP Magic team

Cambridge, CUL: T-S Ar.53.21 - Arabic letters; Margins contain some jottings and drawings of the Star of David and other symbols
Cambridge, CUL: T-S K1.5 Aramaic Hebrew, Magic, contain some drawings of the Star of David
Cambridge, CUL: T-S K1.62 Large star of David surrounding and surrounded by names of God
Source of information: Gideon Bohak, Head of FGP Magic team
The Cairo Genizah documents were written from about 870 C.E. to 1880 C.E. so it is hard to know when each of these Stars of David was drawn. Anyhow we have so few instances of Stars of David from that period that this treasure adds a lot of interesting content for research.  

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Israeli Arabs can salute Magen David as Muslim symbol

Jerusalem Post published an article on August 18, 2009 under the title: Oren: Israeli Arabs can salute Magen David as Muslim symbol . "I would hope that Israeli Arabs would also feel a sense of loyalty to a flag that has a symbol on it, a star, which is also actually an Islamic symbol, not just an exclusively Jewish symbol," Oren said...

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Jew Watch

 Jew Watch is the most famous anti semitic website 
 It's Logo includes a colorful star of David above Hammer and Sickle 
the former USSR Coat of Arms 
hinting that Jews were behind the invention of Communism