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Why's there a Star of David in the middle?
by tome 13y ago
Why's there a Star of David in the middle?
- quchen 13y agoa) The author is Jewish b) It's semantically relevant (Probably the latter. Same goes for the typo in the copyright notice in the end.)
- msvan 13y agoBoth semantically and semitically relevant, in other words.
- tome 13y agoI did consider a) but I'm pretty sure "Yusuke Endoh" is not Jewish.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- michaelmwu 13y agoHe's Japanese, and one of the authors of the Ruby programming language
- saraid216 13y agoBeing Japanese doesn't actually preclude you from being Jewish. It makes it highly unlikely... but not impossible.
- michaelmwu 13y agoTrue.. but you're more likely to find a Japanese Mormon than a Japanese Jew.
- anateus 13y agoIt's actually a transmutation circle symbol from the manga/anime Fullmetal Alchemist
- dragontamer 13y agoActually, the Ouroboros Tattoo on the villians Lust / Gluttony / Greed / etc. etc. from Full Metal Alchemist, of whom were created using the human transmutation circle (getting into the details of which would be spoilers...). Ex: Wrath's tattoo is in his eye: http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130406001619/fma/images/thumb/b/b2/7s_wrath.png/1000px-7s_wrath.png http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130406001619/fma/ima...
- felideon 13y agoWhy do people always ask this? Last time it was in the Visual Website Optimizer thread.
- zerr 13y agoWhy people shouldn't ask? Especially when it is not obvious how something is relevant.
- dragontamer 13y agoThe symbol of note is not "The Star of David", but instead Ouroboros, the eternal snake... symbolized by a snake eating his own tail. I believe he chose the symbol Ouroboros to represent the "immortality through change" of the code. In one story... Ouroboros was an immortal snake who constantly shed his skin, and took on many forms. Similarly, this code constantly changes form, yet is immortal. While it changes form, it manages to keep its identity. The Star of David is incidental. As far as I know... it was added to the Ouroboros symbol in the anime/manga Full Metal Alchemist, but that rendition is perhaps the most famous artistic rendition of Ouroboros in recent culture. Ouroboros had some connotations in the classical psudo-science of Alchemy as well. So perhaps there is an earlier version of Ouroboros + Star of David.
- recuter 13y ago> The Star of David is incidental. As far as I know... it was added to the Ouroboros symbol in the anime/manga Full Metal Alchemist, but that rendition is perhaps the most famous artistic rendition of Ouroboros in recent culture. Wheel of Time series begs to differ.
- dragontamer 13y agoThe Great Serpent Ring does seem to be Ouroboros indeed... but it does not have the Star of David on it. :-p
- airencracken 13y agoThe author, Yusuke Endoh, is Japanese though, so it stands to reason that he might be more exposed to a Japanese representation.
- toyg 13y agoThe "Star of David", like many Jewish symbols, has long been associated with alchemy and magic arts (and other less savoury enterprises) in classic European cultures. See for example [1] from a basic google search. This is likely why it was used in the anime, probably just to avoid the usual boring pentagram. [1] http://www.truthperfected.com/2012/12/seal-of-solomon.html http://www.truthperfected.com/2012/12/seal-of-solomon.html
- vacri 13y agoA fan of Chinese Checkers?