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STARMAN
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|  Posted 14-03-2005 at 19:23
For many millenia, before it was appropriated by the Nazis, the swastika was a symbol of good luck and prosperity. Almost every race, religion and continent honored the swastika -- a perfect example of the universal spread of a symbol thru the collective unconscious used by American Indians, Hindus, Buddhists, Vikings, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Mayans, Aztecs, Persians, Christians, and neolithic tribes. There are even Jewish swastikas found in ancient synagogues side-by-side with the star of David!
The swastika was associated with the hammer of Thor which returned to him like a boomerang, the footprints of Buddha, the emblem of Shiva, Apollo, Jupiter, and even Jesus Christ! The swastika was the first Christian symbol and is found in the catacombs in Rome. Hindus and Buddhists to this day still revere the swastika as their sacred sign. Jains make the sign of the swastika similar to the Christian sign of the cross
In the early part of the twentieth century Rudyard Kipling used the swastika as his coat-of-arms, Coca Cola made a swastika-shaped lucky watch fob,American pilots used it on their planes when they fought for the French in World War One, it was the symbol for the Ladies Home Journal sponsored Girls' Club and the Boy Scouts. A town in Ontario was named Swastika in 1911 because of a lucky gold strike.
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Jimit
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|  Posted 15-03-2005 at 14:00
It is a tragedy that the Nazis appropriated this ancient symbol for their evil purposes and thereby destroyed its ancient meaning 
The origin of the name seems to come from Sanscrit....Svastikah (Sign of good luck)...Svasti (well being).
Other names are Fylfot (E)..Filling the foot of a window(?)...Cramponnee (F)...Gammadion (G) and Hakenkreuz(Ger).
More information on this site (among many).... http://www.heraldica.org/topics/swastika.htm
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Zenmonk
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| Posted 15-03-2005 at 19:50
Jimit,
Do you know any online sanskrit dictionaries? I have learned that each ashkara has it's own meaning which is unchanging, and I'd like to know them all, as there are only something like 58 ashkaras, I find this interesting.
e.g. guru, gu = darkness ru = act of removal (I could have it wrong way round) hence guru = teacher, one who removes darkness.
So I would like to know what each ashkara means in the word svastika
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Thorgrim
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| Posted 15-03-2005 at 20:22
Yes the swastika is an ancient sun sign and as Jimit says - it's a tragedy that the Nazis turned it into a symbol of evil. They reversed its direction of course. Just another example of the absurdity of Nazi dogma - they preached racial purity and declared that the Nordic people were the master race - the Aryans as they called them. Yet not only did they adopt and corrupt an Indian symbol as their badge, but the original Aryans were the Sanskrit speaking people of India. The blond, blue eyed master race that they sought to selectively breed back to, never existed. Such evil folly and so much suffering!
Whatever the original meaning of the swastika, I do hope that no one will carve it or anything else on our ancient stones.
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