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  2. Star of Ishtar - Wikipedia

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    The star of Inanna usually had eight points, [1] though the exact number of points sometimes varies. [2] Six-pointed stars also occur frequently, but their symbolic meaning is unknown. [3] The eight-pointed star was Inanna's most common symbol, [1] and in later times became the most common symbol of the goddess Ishtar, Inanna's East Semitic ...

  3. Octagram - Wikipedia

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    In Unicode, the "Eight Spoked Asterisk" symbol is U+2733.; The spikes are specially visible around Jupiter's moon Europa (on the left) in this NIRCam image.. The 8-pointed diffraction spikes of the star images from the James Webb Space Telescope are due to the diffraction caused by the hexagonal shape of the mirror sections and the struts holding the secondary mirror.

  4. List of symbolic stars - Wikipedia

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    Druze star, a symbol of the Druze religion; Marian star, a six-pointed star used as a Roman Catholic symbol of celestial objects; Rub el Hizb, a common Islamic symbol; alQuds Star, a star representing 'alQuds' (Jerusalem) Haykal, a five-pointed star that represents the Bahá'í Faith; Nine-pointed star, a common symbol of the Bahá'í Faith ...

  5. Rub el Hizb - Wikipedia

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    The symbol was used as a cultural symbol in the time of Al-Andalus in the ... An Ottoman flag with an eight pointed star (after 1844) Flag of the Emirate of ...

  6. Star (glyph) - Wikipedia

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    eight-pointed black star : U+2734 eight-pointed pinwheel star U+2735 eight-pointed rectilinear black star U+2737 heavy eight-pointed rectilinear black star U+2738 circled open center eight-pointed star U+2742 eight-pointed cuneiform star ð’€­: U+1202D rub-el-hizb: Ûž: U+06DE Bamum script (Phase D) ngkyee U+16913

  7. Star of Bethlehem - Wikipedia

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    Christmas sweater featuring multiple black 8-pointed Star of Bethlehem designs. In European textiles a common eight-pointed star design is known as the Holy Star of Bethlehem. The design has been used in stone, metal, wood-work and embroidery in the Middle East since antiquity and is one of the oldest patterns in patterns in Palestinian tatreez ...

  8. The waving symbol, ... “The navy swallowtail on the left forms the abstract shape of Minnesota, and right in the centre of our state is an eight-pointed star…seen in the art of the Dakota ...

  9. Auseklis - Wikipedia

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    Auseklis is also the name of the eight-pointed star (an isogonal octagram). It is also known as one of the crosses of Lietuvēns (a malevolent spirit). The other cross of Lietuvēns is the pentagram, which symbolizes Venus in other cultures, suggesting that both signs might have originally been symbols of Auseklis. In more modern times, the ...