Monday, October 09, 2006

Three Cubes

If you look carefully you'll see three cubes. The white square is on the top of each cube. As you can imagine I saw a lot of Star of David shaped objects during the making of this blog, but this one really surprised me! I think it is a brilliant design because it shows a recognized thing from an un recognized angle...
Picture is courtesy of "Vincent44" who published it on Flickr.
Readers who know why the symbol of the Norwood City Council is a hexagram are invited to comment...

Four Rivers

Picture is courtesy of "Vincent44" who published it on Flickr. 
Outside the circle are the Hebrew names of the four rivers that were in the Garden of Eden: 

The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold. The name of the second river is the Gihon; it is the one that winds all through the land of Cush. "The name of the third river is the Tigris; it is the one that flows east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates. 

(genesis 12)

The circle gives the user of this kabbalistic amulet protection from all directions and the same goes for the Star of David.

Jon Dee's Sigel


Picture of Alchemy hexagram sigel is courtesy of "Vincent44" who published it on Flickr.
John Dee (1527-1608) British alchemist, occultist, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

My Mobile

This is one of few Stars of David I got for my birthday from my family members. Since I started collecting Stars of David they thought that giving me such a birthday present will surely make me happy and they were right!

Fire Stand

Last week Film Director Aran Patinkin and I visited Moshe Genish in his tent in the Galilee and interviewed him for a documentary film about the Star of David that we want to suggest to the Israeli channel 8 T.V. If it will be accepted it should be screened on Independence Day 2008.
Moshe is enthusiastic about Stars of David and he even built a Fire Stand in this shape. I reckon this is the only one of its kind in the whole world and this I call originality!

origami

I started looking for Star of David origami a few years ago on the WWW but found nothing. Now it just fell into my hands with the new Hebrew book of Miri Golan and Paul Jeckson.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Raelian Hexagram

There was a chapter about Rael in the Wikipedia entry on Star of David but I asked the editor to transfer it to the hexagram entry and he did. Since I want to show what the Star of David IS NOT I decided to include it here in my collection, but remember that this shape here doesn't have the proper name and doesn't have any Jewish meaning.
Picture is courtesy of Kiel Bryant who published it on Flickr and wrote there:

Raelian logo, pre- and post-1991. 
Kiel Bryant wrote to me:
Creepy, isn't it? A bit ironic that my icon should be an Egyptian emblem . . .Anyhow: you do appear enchanted by the Star of David, and rightly so, it is a mesmerizing shape. My suggestion, as appreciator of art to kindred spirit, is that you look up "entrelac" and specifically -- though its title may repel you -- "Islamic entrelac." You should, doing this, discover varieties of David's star of such beauty and complexity and ultimately grace as to overwhelm.