Hand of El Shadai really, the source of the Chamsa...
My issue in posting this to the blog was whether to label it as a "Picture", as in an image out of Nature, or as an "Abstract". The later Jewish deity was definitely abstract, but El Shadai seems to have been rather more anthropomorphic...
Because I don't believe in gods, except as metaphors, I have gone for Abstract.
For those who like to deconstruct these matters, the fourth finger is a Moslem minaret, the middle finger a Hindu mandir, and the thumb and fifth fingers are Christian and Protestant spires respectively. The second finger was originally Greek Orthodox, but later converted to Reform Judaism.
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