Not
Guilty as Charged
An
example of a kind of nasty attacks against the Star of David is an
article titled "The
Six-Pointed Star, The Mark Of The Beast, Part II, History Of The Six-Pointed Star",
where the author quotes selectively from "Signs and Symbols of Primordial
Man, being an explanation of the Evolution of Religious Doctrines from the
Eschatology of the Ancient Egyptians" (1910) By Albert Churchward (1852-1925).
Quote:
"Six Triangles...is the Egyptian hieroglyphic for the ...Land of the
Spirits." (Churchward, p. 177)
In the original text the Six Triangles do not comprise a Star of David, as you may have assumed by the
title of the article – they are illustrated as 3 pairs of hourglasses.
3 pairs of hourglasses
Quote: "Ancient Egyptian Seal of Solomon"
(Churchward, p. 188)
The original text is:
"and has by some been named Seal of
Solomon (see origin of triangles.
The illustration on the left of this sentence is marked as Figure 85. It shows not a Star of David, or a Seal of Solomon (which is another name for the
six pointed star) but a rhomb surrounded by four triangles).
A rhomb surrounded by four triangles
Quote: "This (6-pointed star) was the first sign or hieroglyphic of
Amsu" (p. 65)
The words (6-pointed
star) are an addition of the author. The original phrase is:
"This, as far as we can trace, was the first sign or hieroglyphic
of Amsu"
More than that: on page 314 Churchward wrote that the shape of the first two triangles mentioned above as 3 pairs of hourglasses "is much more ancient than the latter" (marked as Fig. 85)
and we can not find any reason for Brother Gould calling it "Solomon's Seal". Solomon was not born when this was first used as a sacred sign, and as far as our researches go we have not been able to trace any facts or reasons to support the assertion that Solomon ever used it as a seal".
This quote does not appear in the Watch.Pair article mentioned above...
