Compounds · 3D
Star Tetrahedron
Merkaba · stella octangula
Two tetrahedra, one pointing up and one down, interpenetrating. Look straight down its axis and you see the hexagram.
- Tetrahedra
- 2
- Points
- 8
- Core
- octahedron
Turn it in your hands, strike it to hear the chord of its edges, slice it with a plane.
Facts
- Its eight points are the corners of a cube.
- Where the two tetrahedra overlap, an octahedron forms.
- Its shadow along the axis is exactly the Star of David.
- Kepler named it stella octangula in 1609.
History and meaning
In modern meditation teachings the “Merkaba” is a light-body of two counter-rotating tetrahedra (try the counter-rotation slider). The word comes from the Hebrew merkavah, the chariot of Ezekiel’s vision.
Across the dimensions
- Its shadow HexagramThe hexagram is the shadow of two interlocked tetrahedra: the star tetrahedron.
Learn it step by step
- Journey GenesisStep 8: The star
