Ceiling frescos in Gothic Catholic Church
of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome
Many gold stars of David on the triangles
looks like Cosmatesque Style
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CC image by "sparkovonovinski" from Flickr
Saturday, March 24, 2012
US Army Jewish Chaplain insignia 1943
US Army Jewish Chaplain insignia 1943
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Source: en.wikipedia entry -Religious_symbolism_in_the_United_States_military
Hexagram - Designs and Meanings
Otto Friedrich August
Meinardus was a German Coptologist and pastor (1925 – 2005). He
wrote an article titled The
Hexagram or the Magen David in Byzantine Art (in the Bulletin of the Christian
Archeological Society 8 (period IV)(1975-1976) p. 97-100). In this article he claims
that the current meaning of the hexagram as representing the House of David or the
Jewish heritage in Christendom is too dominant and leads to misconception. In
the past the hexagram acceptance was wider than today, and its main function
was ornamental.
Meinardus mentions several
hexagram designs
a- The Capernaum Synagogue
type with straight lines which eventually became the symbol of the state of
Israel.
b- The Eshtemoa Synagogue type with curved lines
[1], which is most frequently found on Byzantine ornamentation.
c- The six rayed
star [2] influenced by the I for Jesus and X for Christos
d- The six rayed star which "clearly signified
the heavenly body, as, for example, in the case of the upper part of the
Barberini Diptych in the Louvre"
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[1] My teacher, Ze'ev Goldmann, thought that this Tri-loop symbol (which appears
twice on the Capernaum Lintel) is frequent Samaritan one, but appears also on a
Jewish Massoretic design in micrographic writing that has in its center a piece
of paper with text of the Tri-partite blessing of the Cohanim. It appears also
on Neo-Paphos Mosaic Floor along with Crosses and the Swastika sign.
About 40 years ago Dr. Asher Eder took a picture of this Tri-Loop symbol on a
relief in the ruins of an Herodian building in Beth-El, north of Ramallah.
a.
Capernaum - straight lined star -4th century C.E.
Credit:
Gabi Goldman
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b.
Capernaum - curved lined star -4th century C.E.
Credit:
Gabi Goldman
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c.
Constantinople Christian sarcophagus
with XI monogram, circa 400 C.E.
Archaeological
Museum in Istanbul
Source:
CC image, English Wikipedia entry: Sarcophagus
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d.
Barberini Diptych in the Louvre -6th century C.E.
Source: CC image, English Wikipedia entry: Justinián_I.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Hexagram from the Gallo-Roman Period
Hexagram (top right) and 6-petaled flowers (bottom left)
from the Gallo-Roman Period 123 BCE - 486 CE
Exhibited at The Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie
(Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology)
in the French city of Besançon
CC Image by "heroesbed" from Flickr
Six pointed star on an ancient Roman Coin
Six pointed star on an ancient Roman coin from Apulia, Luceria
225-217 B.C.E. Roman Coin
Teruncius, a very small brass coin
Source: wikimedia entry
Luceria_Aes_Grave_Teruncius_85000747.jpg
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Albert Churchward's opinion about the Star of David
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...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Throne of St Peter
Six pointed star engraved in
13th Century marble throne of St Peter of Castello in Venice, Italy.
13th Century marble throne of St Peter of Castello in Venice, Italy.
Comes from Antioch. Inscribed with words from the Koran
Probably an ancient Muslim gravestone
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