Non-Jewish Hexagrams

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31 Jan 2020, 7:14 pm

Today, I wanted to share how hexagrams aren't strictly associated with Israeli political iconography. As a Jew myself, I was pretty surprised.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Croatia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Northern_Ireland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Slovenia

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02 Feb 2020, 3:19 pm

Ethiopian imperial standard of Haile Selassie I (front)

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02 Feb 2020, 3:26 pm

It was the original emblem for Dodge Brothers automobiles--

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02 Feb 2020, 3:53 pm

LonelyJar wrote:

Ethiopian imperial standard of Haile Selassie I (front)

The hexagram/Star-of-David is also called the Seal of Solomon, and I believe the Ethiopian emperors use it because they claim descent from Solomon, so whether that's a "non-Jewish" use could be debated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_of_Solomon

There's also a common plant called Solomon's Seal, which has a hexagram-like design in the stem I believe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonatum

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02 Feb 2020, 5:55 pm

Hexagrams in heraldry:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... n_heraldry

Star of David in heraldry:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... n_heraldry

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23 Feb 2020, 5:05 pm

There's also the symbol for the infamous Raëlian movement.

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