[Zhna]

It's the star of Raphan! Yahweh or Ahriman as we Zhna know it is the father of all Daevas including Raphan and jews.

[Paul Noise]

As far as symbols go, it's one of the koolest. I mean compared to other symbols. Like the cross is a pretty lame symbol. "Hey you killed my savior with one of these, so...so I'm gonna wear one to show my belief in him..." It's like Jackie Onassis wearing an NRA pin. I think the symbol for pi is kinda neat. Straight line, straight line, wavy line. I like Om, but it's a word, not really a symbol... Star of David is good though.

[Rosewin]

mklsgl, on 07 November 2009 - 04:21 PM, said:

The Star/Shield of David predates the Seal of Solomon.

Not true as far as I know the Seal of Solomon is older and the most powerful symbol in some forms of magic. The Arabs used the Seal of Solomon long before it was adopted as a Jewish one. If you have information to the contrary it would be appreciated.

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However, this happened in Christian circles where Byzantine amulets of the sixth century already use the "seal of Solomon" as the name of the hexagram. In many medieval Hebrew manuscripts elaborate designs of the hexagram are to be found, without its being given any name. The origin of this use can be clearly traced to Bible manuscripts from Muslim countries (a specimen is shown in Gunzburg and Stassoff, L'ornement hèbraïque (1905), pl. 8, 15). From the 13th century onward it is found in Hebrew Bible manuscripts from Germany and Spain. Sometimes parts of the masorah are written in the form of a hexagram; sometimes it is simply used, in a more or less elaborate form, as an ornament. Richly adorned specimens from manuscripts in Oxford and Paris have been reproduced by C. Roth, Sefarad, 12, 1952, p. 356, pl. II, and in the catalog of the exhibition "Synagoga," Recklinghausen, 1960, pl. B. 4.

In Arabic magic the "seal of Solomon" was widely used, but at first its use in Jewish circles was restricted to relatively rare cases.

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The notion of a "shield of David" with magical powers was originally unconnected with the sign. It is difficult to say whether the notion arose in Islam, where the Koran sees David as the first to make protective arms, or from inner traditions of Jewish magic. From earlier times there is only one instance connecting the hexagram with the name David on a sixth-century tombstone from Taranto, southern Italy. There seems to have been some special reason for putting the hexagram before the name of the deceased. The oldest text mentioning a shield of David is contained in an explanation of a magical "alphabet of the angel*Metatron" which stems from the geonic period and was current among the *Ḥasidei Ashkenaz of the 12 th century.

http://www.jewishvir...13_0_12997.html

This post has been edited by Rosewin: 14 November 2009 - 12:45 PM

[mklsgl]

I just thought that David must have had a shield before Solomon had a seal.

[unit]

mklsgl page 1.. good post..