Yes, Rider, except sigma never looks like the relatively symmetrical Latin "S", so IHS is macaronic, and also a bacronym.
I see you didn't recognize that this particular IHS (sun, cross, three nails) is actually the logo of the Jesuits, so the image is intended to group them in too.
The hexagram is not the star of Remphan according to my TMI because nobody used the hexagram in Judea when Amos or Stephen used the idioms. It wasn't adopted at all anywhere in Judaism until hesitantly after 300. If not, show us!
My link also shows that the hexagram, while having nothing to do with Moloch worship, had both decorative and arbitrary meanings in several other cultures without tie to human trafficking or satanism.
Your narrative about conversion or destruction has no referent in 14th-century reality. It certainly doesn't reflect 10th-century Khazaria if that's where you're going with it, and I don't think Khazaria was big on hexagrams (they preferred that Ukrainian trident). The hexagram actually became more widespread among the other Jews due to the Muslims, who first called it Solomon's seal.
Thank you for replying to my original comment with such vehemence that admins got to you before I did, thus allowing me to help straighten out this more detailed thread.
just an observer since I really have little knowledge of the subject;) but I did find this interesting, from the link...
"because hexagrams are not associated with Judaism early enough and the Biblical reference is understood as to a heavenly body and its guardian demon rather than to geometric symbology."
I was just wondering about this^
we recently visited a grotto built by a priest, and it had many symbols;
Very nice! Christians can freely use hexagrams purely to mean their grafting into the covenant people, alongside David, and their communion with God. To the pure, all things are pure; the hexagram has many histories and we don't need to know about the history hijackers to use symbols to mean what we want them to mean. It just doesn't go back in covenant history before 300 AD (I'll be happy to hear a counterexample), though it's much older in secular history.
Yes, Rider, except sigma never looks like the relatively symmetrical Latin "S", so IHS is macaronic, and also a bacronym.
I see you didn't recognize that this particular IHS (sun, cross, three nails) is actually the logo of the Jesuits, so the image is intended to group them in too.
The hexagram is not the star of Remphan according to my TMI because nobody used the hexagram in Judea when Amos or Stephen used the idioms. It wasn't adopted at all anywhere in Judaism until hesitantly after 300. If not, show us!
My link also shows that the hexagram, while having nothing to do with Moloch worship, had both decorative and arbitrary meanings in several other cultures without tie to human trafficking or satanism.
Your narrative about conversion or destruction has no referent in 14th-century reality. It certainly doesn't reflect 10th-century Khazaria if that's where you're going with it, and I don't think Khazaria was big on hexagrams (they preferred that Ukrainian trident). The hexagram actually became more widespread among the other Jews due to the Muslims, who first called it Solomon's seal.
Thank you for replying to my original comment with such vehemence that admins got to you before I did, thus allowing me to help straighten out this more detailed thread.
u/sueanon2017
just an observer since I really have little knowledge of the subject;) but I did find this interesting, from the link...
"because hexagrams are not associated with Judaism early enough and the Biblical reference is understood as to a heavenly body and its guardian demon rather than to geometric symbology."
I was just wondering about this^
we recently visited a grotto built by a priest, and it had many symbols;
some of them were the star of David...
https://www.westbendgrotto.com/
Very nice! Christians can freely use hexagrams purely to mean their grafting into the covenant people, alongside David, and their communion with God. To the pure, all things are pure; the hexagram has many histories and we don't need to know about the history hijackers to use symbols to mean what we want them to mean. It just doesn't go back in covenant history before 300 AD (I'll be happy to hear a counterexample), though it's much older in secular history.
yes, it was awesome, would definitely recommend to anyone visiting the area. and thanks for the details!
and 'To the pure, all things are pure' really makes sense, will have to remember that.