"So, where do we first see it? Yeah. So, it's very, very old. And we see it in lots of places. And we don't see it exclusively used by Jews. It's a very pleasing geometric symbol. There's a YouTuber whose videos I like to watch, and he, I don't know, sometimes talks about, I think it's called vexillology, the study of flags. And he has a whole thing of, like, really great flags can be recreated. I think his test is by, like, an eight-year-old doodling in class. And he's very mixed on the American flag. But the Israeli flag, and more simply, the Star of David, is very easy for even young children to draw. Yeah. I mean, from a graphic design perspective, it's one of those things where, if you saw a graphic designer come up with it today, you'd be like, wow, this is perfect. Yeah. It's great. This is Frank Lloyd Wright, you know, from a design perspective. It's a very pleasing geometric figure, because it's very simple to make with two triangles, but there's a whole bunch of elements to it that creates six smaller triangles. There's the center part. There's the individual thing. It points in different directions. So it's very easy to come up with tons of meaning that we can, like, then ascribe to it. But the most basic theory of its origin is that it's just a very pleasing geometric symbol that, like, was in pretty widespread usage. Again, it's a very pleasing geometric figure. It's a very pleasing geometric figure. It's a very pleasing geometric figure. It's a very pleasing geometric figure. It's a very pleasing geometric figure. It's a very pleasing geometric figure. It's a very pleasing geometric figure. There's plenty of really old Jewish artifacts from, like, the sixth, seventh century BCE that have this symbol, but not exclusively, meaning alongside other symbols. And there are plenty of non-Jewish artifacts that also make use of this symbol, like, going back. So it's just kind of a decorative flourish that looks nice. Exactly. Like, the same way you might see a fleur-de-lis or an asterisk or something that's, you know, one of the top symbols in Microsoft Word that's just something that people put on stationery because it looks nice underneath their name. Yeah. Yeah. Very much so. There's this ancient synagogue, I think it's pronounced Capernaum, that has survived in pretty good shape. So we see a lot of the decorative materials in it. And we see this Star of David a bunch of times, but not exclusively. There's a whole bunch of other, like, exactly what you're describing, there's also a motif of grapes and grapevines as a decorative element. There's also a pentagram, a five-pointed star, which was also, you know, commonly used alongside it. And another geometrically pleasing symbol that you certainly would not see on any synagogues today, but also has a long history of just as a geometric decorative symbol. A swastika. A swastika, I don't know, which, like, was not invented in the 20th century and was used, Right. in a lot of different traditions as just a pleasing, easy-to-draw shape. Right. So we know now, historically, the swastika has been imbued with a particularly heavy meaning since the 1920s, 1930s. Prior to then, it was used in a whole host of areas having nothing to do with Jews or antisemitism. So it seems like this hexagram, was similarly used. So when is its 1920s, 1930s moment? Like, when does it switch over? Yeah. As far as we can tell, the sort of, like, origin of it being sort of exclusively associated with Jewish identity starts in 1354 in Prague. Okay."

"It's on the synagogue in a Czech city called Budweis, which is from the early 16th. Like Budweiser? Exactly like. So yeah, I was like, whoa, this is obviously the synagogue of Budweis and its prominent Star of David. That's the number one most famous thing about the city of Budweis."