Swastika Symbol (स्वास्तिक चिह्न)

The swastika (as a character 卐 or 卍) is a geometrical figure and an antiquated religious symbol from the way of life of Eurasia, where it has been and remains an image of heavenly nature and otherworldliness in Indian religions and East Asian religions.The word swastika derives from the Sanskrit root swasti, of su, ("good, well") and asti ("it is, there is").

Swastika is the oldest, the most ancient symbol of a particular school of adepts.

Some of the earliest archaeological evidence of the swastika in the Indian subcontinent can be dated to 3,000 BCE. Investigators have also found seals with "mature and geometrically ordered" swastikas that date to before the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300–1300 BCE). Their efforts have traced references to swastikas in the Vedas at about that time. The investigators put forth the theory that the swastika moved westward from India to Finland, Scandinavia, the British Highlands and other parts of Europe.

Faience button seal (H99-3814/8756-01) with swastika motif found on the floor of Room 202 (Trench 43).

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Almost everyone thinks that Hitler took the symbol, inverted it, tilted it and then used it as an Aryan supremacist symbol. No. It’s the ancient symbol. Nazis just tilted it and color-coded it. Rest is history.

 

Corn Palace, Year1905

You might be wondering then how a sacred symbol with lot of positivity might be banned in some countries like Germany and Poland. It is one of the most hatred symbol meaning Nazism, evil, death in Jewish community. There are some people who lost there family members in Nazi movement. They shudder and don’t want to even see that emblem.

The Corn Palace of Mitchell, South Dakota in 1905 with a swastika on the front.
It does have a swastika on the front but the photo is from 1905, So it is a non-nazi swastika.

When you visit the corn palace, it states on that specific image that the sign is actually first and foremost known as a good luck symbol by the Native Americans. And was placed on the corn palace before the Nazi's adopted it, basically giving it the opposite meaning.

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For instance, the cross refers by Christ: some say it is a remnant of the swastika. On its long journey to distant lands this is what has remained of the swastika.

The swastika was a symbol like aum. Swastika is the symbol of the first. Therefore, the picture of the swastika is dynamic. Its give the effect of motion; it is rotating all the time. The ordinary world means that which is moving all the time. So the swastika was the symbol of the first and aum that of the last. There is no movement in aum, everything is at a standstill but Swastika there is movement.

Swastika Symbol across the world

All kinds of changes take place, and when something separates from its original source, it is difficult to discern its place of origin, how it came to be and what happened to it.

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In various European languages, The hakenkreuz (a swastika, especially in its clockwise form as a Nazi symbol) is a very very old symbol. German word, from Haken ‘hook’ + Kreuz ‘cross’.
Shirer says it appears on even ancient relics from Troy and in relics of ancient Egypt and China as well as India.

Dated as early as about 10,000 BC

The earliest swastika known has been found in Mezine, Ukraine. It is carved on late paleolithic figurine of mammoth ivory, being dated as early as about 10,000 BC. It has been suggested this swastika may be a stylized picture of a stork in flight and not the true swastika that is in use today. Mirror-image swastikas (clockwise and anti-clockwise) have been found on ceramic pottery in the Devetashka cave, Bulgaria, dated 6,000 B.C. It appear in Neolithic China in the Majiabang, Dawenkou and Xiaoheyan cultures.