The Star of David

30 Degrees
Take a look at the symbol of the interlaced equilateral triangles inscribed within a circle, now commonly known as the Star of David, and notice that the points of the hexagram touch the circle 30 degrees, above and below the "equator" of the circle.

The Great Pyramid
Interestingly, the Great Pyramid rests only 2125 meters south of exactly 30 degrees north (29d 58' 51" N), just where the equilateral Star of David touches the circumference of the circle.
The faces of the Pyramid are not equilateral (featuring three 60 degree angles) but rather have base angles of 58 degrees 18 minutes. The tangent of 58'18" is 1.618, the limit which the Phi realtionship approaches.
The cross section of the Pyramid is 51 degrees 51 minutes, which is just right for the height of the structure to relate by multiples of Pi to the perimeter, as the radius of a circle or sphere relates to it's circumference.
You may recall that the circumference of a circle is equal to Pi times the diameter, or 2 Pi times the radius. Another way of saying this, is that Pi times the radius yields half the circumference of a circle.
The Great Pyramid is said to "square the circle", because the same relationship holds between the height and perimeter of that; that is, the perimeter of the pyramid is equal to 2 Pi times it's height, or Pi times the height yields half the perimeter as with the circle. Note that this only works because of the particular base angle of the pyramid.
51'51" is also very close to the latitude at which we find the Stonehenge.

23.5 Degrees
In an addendum to Peter Tompkin's "Secrets of the Pyramids" (p. 301), we see Z. Stechinni suggest that the "Star of David" symbol represents not only the (sexual) union of opposites, but also the earth, featuring the poles and the tropics (of Cancer/23.5 degrees north and Capricorn/23.5 degrees south). [While I am not supporting his thesis, it became a fruitful place to start a meditation.]
This of course means that the two triangles that make up the star cannot be equilateral triangles, with equal sides and equal (60 degree) angles [as it is usually depicted, above]; but would need to touch the circle at 23.5 degrees above and below the "equator". Leaving two points of the star at the poles and moving the others to 23.5 degrees yields an image like this.

Note that when the star is redrawn to represent the tropics, that the base angles of the triangles change from sixty to 56.75 degrees.

Looking at the image of the Stonehenge, we see this exact same figure depicted, with the cirlce of Aubrey stones representing the circumference of the globe, and the rectangle formed by the Station Stones marking the position of the tropics. This means of course, that the Station Stones were laid out to demark 23.5 and 47 degree angles on the ground.

Perspective
We can also use a "trick" of perspective to produce a Star of David with 47 degree angles. If we tilt the Star "backwards" (rolling it on the x, or horizontal axis), we will eventually arrive at an image of the Star that looks like this:

This is the same as keeping the width of the "star" the same, but reducing it's heighth to 74% of the original; which yields an image with the 23.5 degree angles of the tropics. Oddly enough this reduction also produces ~52 degree base angles like the cross section of the Great Pyramid (and the approximate degree of latitude where we find the Stonehenge located).

This of course changes the inscribed circle into an ellipse. Projecting the re-drawn star, with 52 degree base angles, onto the Stonehenge produces an image like this. Note especially the elliptical figure in the middle.

The Sri Yantra
Take a look at an image known as the Sri Yantra, which is composed of three sets of opposing triangles and one extra, and note that the largest of the pairs of triangles has ~52 degree base angles, just like the cross-section of the Great Pyramid and the re-drawn star image.

These frames, taken from an animation about the construction of the Sri Yantra, illustrate perfectly the notion of the (52 degree) pyramid "squaring the circle", spoken of above in the Pyramid section.

The rectangle A-B-C-D, is defined by the segment D-C of diameter (of the circle) bounded by the intersection of the two 52 degree triangles. A-D and B-C are half the length of D-C.

Since the Great Pyramid is also 52 degrees when seen in cross-section, we can overlay the pyramid onto the beginnings of the sri yantra. We have purposefully matched the Ground Level with the rectangle

As you can see, the pyramid is taller than half one side. Actually the relationship is a height of 7 related to a base (side) of 11, or a half side of 5.5.
The square that the rectangle generates now represents the perimeter of the pyramid at ground level. As stated before, we know that the height of the pyramid times Pi equals half it's perimeter; that is 7 X 3.1416 = 21.9912.

This image shows us both the side and top view of the pyramid.

We find this same shortened hexagram symbol in the DC (1793 planning) map, centered on the White House, with points (clockwise from the top) at Scott Circle, Mt. Vernon Square, the National Archive Bldg., the Washington M'mt., the Navy and Marine Surgical Center, and Washington Circle.

Note the ellipse just south of the White House.

Notice that the top of this "star" centering on the White House falls on Scott Circle (north of the White House), which also features 23.5 degree angles;

and which you will see consists of a shortened and "pinched" Star of David, with an ellipse, and a point in it's center.

Now, if we add the pentagram to the hexagram in the DC map, wee see that the downward point of the pentagram also forms a 52 degree angle, and the wide points form 23.5 degree angles.

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