this is called ‘Bierstern’ (beer star) or ‘Brauerstern’ (brewer’s star).
A six-point star is used as an identifying mark of the Folk Nation.
The main runways and taxiways of Heathrow Airport are arranged roughly in the shape of a hexagram..
A hexagram in a circle is incorporated prominently in the supports of Worthing railway station’s platform 2 canopy (UK).
Other hexagrams
Other hexagrams can be constructed as a continuous path.
unicursal hexagram
Two uniform star-polyhedra have hexagram vertex figures
One star polyhedra has hexagram faces
D2 symmetry
D3 symmetry
Vertex-transitive
D3 symmetry
Edge-transitive
Ditrigonal dodecadodecahedron
Great ditrigonal icosidodecahedron
Great triambic icosahedron
See also
Pentagram
Star of Bethlehem
Heptagram
The thelemic Unicursal hexagram
Pascal’s mystic hexagram
References
Grnbaum, B. and G. C. Shephard; Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., (1987), ISBN 0-7167-1193-1.
Grnbaum, B.; Polyhedra with Hollow Faces, Proc of NATO-ASI Conference on Polytopes … etc. (Toronto 1993), ed T. Bisztriczky et al., Kluwer Academic (1994) pp. 4370.
Graham, Dr. O.J. The Six-Pointed Star: Its Origin and Usage 4th ed. Toronto: The Free Press 777, 2001. ISBN 0-9689383-0-2
Wessely, l.c. pp. 31, 112
Footnotes
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^ sivasakti.com: Iintroduction to Yantra
^ The Chakra Bible, Patricia Mercier, Octopus Publishing Group Ltd., 2007, p. 199
^ “The History and Practice of Magic” (Secaucus, NJ: University Books, published by arrangement with Lyle Stewart, 1979), Vol. II, p.