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Swastika
Hitler took his 'swastika' symbol from a sacred Native American symbol.
( this is a blatantlie. itcame from ancient depictions sacred to all
pagan people in ancient times)
The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit words su,
meaning "well," and asti,
meaning 'to be.'
An ancient symbol, the swastika was used in various forms
by many civilizations all over the world.
It was the sign of Thor's hammer for Scandinavians.
It was used by early Christians as an alter
ative cross to avoid persecution,
and by later Christians as a decorative emblem.
It was widespread among Native American peoples.
It appeared in ancient Oriental, Egyptian, and Irish cultures.<
br> Its origins are unknown, but its first use might have been as a solar calendar illustration.
Indians associate the swasti
ka with good luck and protection from wrath.
They mark it on doors, walls, shrines, and their own bodies.
It can represent the sun, the god Vishnu,
or the 'world-wheel.' It is one of the 24 auspicious marks in Jainism.
In the late nineteenth century, the swastika symbolized a movement celebrating Germanic culture, heritage, and nationalism.
By 1912, this movement began to take on anti-Semitic undertones.
Later, Adolph Hitler chose the swastika to be the symbol of the Nazi Party.
The Nazi swastika was a clockwise pointing swastika,
whereas most Buddhist versions are counterclockwise.
There are many other historically documente
d uses of the swastika
as a totem, a decoration, or a good luck "charm"
in ancient civilizations including the Mesopotamians,
Hindu, Native Americans (both North and South) and Sca
ndinavians.
In ancient times, the direction of the swastika was
interchangeable as can be seen on an ancient Chinese silk drawing.
Some cultures in the past had diff
erentiated
between the clockwise swastika and the counter-clockwise sauvastika.
In these cultures the swastika symbolized health and life
while the sauvastika took on a mystical meaning of bad-luck or misfortune.
But since the Nazis use of the swastika,
some people are trying to differentiate the two meanings
of the swastika by varying its direction -
trying to make the clockwise, Nazi version of the swastika
mean hate and death while the counter-clockwise version
would hold the ancient meaning of the symbol, life and good-luck.
-
Swastika - (Sanskrit "good luck" o
r "well-being", literally "it is good").
The name and first use of the swastika was first mentioned
in the Vedas, the holy texts of Hinduism.
However, while its n
ame is Vedic, it appears in art and design
throughout human history, symbolising many different things;
such as luck, Brahma, the Hindu concept of samsara,
or Surya (the sun).
The swastika is used primarily as a symbol by Hindus,
but trans
ferred to followers of other Indic religions like Buddhists Jainists.
In the West, the Swastika is most easily identified
as the symbol of the Nazis,
who believed that the early Aryans of India,
from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang
, were the prototypical white invaders, and thus saw fit to co-opt the sign
as a symbol of white unity.
It has come to signify fascism outside of India due to its history
in World War II. - Continued ...Wikipedia
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From The Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters
The swastika symbol represents the path of the migrations of the Hopi clans.
The center of the cross represen
ts Tuwanasavi or the Center of the Universe which lay in what is now the Hopi country in the southwestern part of the US. Tuwanasavi was not the geographic center of North America, but the magnetic or spiritual center formed by the junction of the North-South and the East-West axws along which
the Twins sent their vibratory messages and controlled the rotation of the planet.
Three directions (pasos) for most of the clans were the same: the ice locked back door to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Only 7 clans-the Bear, Eagle, Sun, Kachina, Parrot, Flute and Coyote clans-migrated to South America to the southern paso at it's tip. The rest of some 40 clans, having started from somewhere in southern Mexico or Central America, regarded this as their southern pa
so, their migration thus forming a balanced symbol.
Upon arriving at each paso all the leading clans turned right before retracing their routes.
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The Swastika Stone
The Swastika Stone is an Iron Age - Rock Carving.
The stone is found in the moors near Ilkley in West Yorkshire.
The stone overlooks the valley of the River Wharfe, and is identical to some of the 'Camunnian Rose' d
esigns in Val Camonica, Italy - nine cup-marks in a cross shape, surrounded by a curved swastika-shaped groove. The Ilkley carving also has an 'appendage' off the east arm - a cup surrounded by a curved hook-shaped groove. It is unique on the moor (which is covered in hundreds of cup-and-ring type carvings) although there is an unfinished swastika design (more angular, without cups) on the nearby Badger Stone.
One of the lines of cups on the Swastika Stone is less than a
degree off magnetic north-south. One naturally looks north from the stone, as it is on a rocky outcrop on the north side of the moor. Was it associated with the Pole Star with which its c
ups align? Why then does its shape describe a clockwise motion, whereas the stars turn anti-clockwise around the pole?
Perhaps the design relates to the shamanic practice of ascent up the 'Pillar of the World' (to use the Lapp term). Numerous Siberian and northern European peoples documented by Mircea Eliade see the Pole Star as the summit of
a pole holding up the sky (seen as a tent). Eliade notes similar beliefs about the Pole Star in Ancient Saxon, Scandinavian and Romanian myths. If, then, one imagines the Swastika design to be the base of a Pillar of the World, the implicit motion of the design makes sense. Something that appears to turn anti-clockwise when looking up from the bottom of a pole will, if it slides down the pole and is viewed from above, appear to turn clockwise.
[color=
red]The Swastika Stone may map the turning sky down onto the ground, forming the bond between 'levels' that is so central to shamanic cosmology.
Also, the 'appen
dage' cup, in relation to the central cup, would have only been a couple of degrees off the summer solstice sunrise during the period 2000BCE - 100CE (covering most of the likely times at which the glyph was carved. The 'hook' groove, if imagined to turn with the swastika, would 'haul' the cup-sun across the sky. This seems to strengthen the swastika-sky connection. [/color]
(I
should note that I do not support the idea that cup-and-ring patterns are maps of stellar constellations. Perhaps some involved rudimentary attempts at this, but no one has found accurate correspondences in any existing patterns. They seem to me to be more generally concerned with access points to alternate realities).
With the Pole Star/Pillar of the World ideas in mind, one could see some cup-and-ring markings as bei
ng related. The 'tail' grooves could be the Pillar reaching up to the cup-pole, surrounded by rings of revolving stars. Some local cup-and-ring markings, like those on the
Panorama Stone, have 'ladders' instead of 'tail' grooves. This image further supports the shamanic interpretation of the petroglyphs, as ladders are among the most frequently occurring representations of shamanic ascent to other worlds. Human figures atop ladders appear in !Kung San rock art related to trance-state ascension.
Cup-and-ring style petroglyphs in the British Isles are usually dated to the
Bronze Age (because some are included in, or in the proximity of, Bronze Age burials) or the Neolithic (because of comparable carvings on Irish passage graves from that period - see also Richard Bradley's recent work 'Signing the Land' for arguments dating this style of prehistoric art to the Neolithic).
The Swastika Stone is arguably associated with this style of rock art, due to its use
of cup-marks, but I have recently come to see it as most likely originating in the Iron Age, or even during Roman occupation. This is because of Verbeia, a Romano-Celtic godd
ess revered by the Roman troops stationed in Ilkley (then Olicana). Verbeia is often accepted as being a version of the Celtic spring/fire goddess Brigid, who is still associated with swastika-like symbols in Ireland. Also, the Roman cohort which set up her altar were recruited from the Lingones, a Gaulish Celtic tribe.
Apparently Romano-Celtic coins have been found in Gaul bearing swastika-like designs. It seems tempting to think that t
he Lingones cohort carved the Swastika Stone when they were here, but this would surely be unusual. Or perhaps the recruited Celtic/Roman troops were influenced in their choice of 'genuis loci', Verbeia, by the native Celts of West Yorkshire, the Brigantes (whose name derives from the goddess Brigantia, related to Brigid), who may have already carved the stone.
The Swastika may map
the turning sky down onto the ground, forming the bond between 'levels' that is so central to shamanic cosmology.
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http://www.crystalinks.com/swastika.html
Swastika
Hitler took his 'swastika' symbol from a sacred Native American symbol.
( this is a blatantlie. itcame from ancient depictions sacred to all
pagan people in ancient times)
The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit words su,
meaning "well," and asti,
meaning 'to be.'
An ancient symbol, the swastika was used in various forms
by many civilizations all over the world.
It was the sign of Thor's hammer for Scandinavians.
It was used by early Christians as an alter
ative cross to avoid persecution,
and by later Christians as a decorative emblem.
It was widespread among Native American peoples.
It appeared in ancient Oriental, Egyptian, and Irish cultures.<
br> Its origins are unknown, but its first use might have been as a solar calendar illustration.
Indians associate the swasti
ka with good luck and protection from wrath.
They mark it on doors, walls, shrines, and their own bodies.
It can represent the sun, the god Vishnu,
or the 'world-wheel.' It is one of the 24 auspicious marks in Jainism.
In the late nineteenth century, the swastika symbolized a movement celebrating Germanic culture, heritage, and nationalism.
By 1912, this movement began to take on anti-Semitic undertones.
Later, Adolph Hitler chose the swastika to be the symbol of the Nazi Party.
The Nazi swastika was a clockwise pointing swastika,
whereas most Buddhist versions are counterclockwise.
There are many other historically documente
d uses of the swastika
as a totem, a decoration, or a good luck "charm"
in ancient civilizations including the Mesopotamians,
Hindu, Native Americans (both North and South) and Sca
ndinavians.
In ancient times, the direction of the swastika was
interchangeable as can be seen on an ancient Chinese silk drawing.
Some cultures in the past had diff
erentiated
between the clockwise swastika and the counter-clockwise sauvastika.
In these cultures the swastika symbolized health and life
while the sauvastika took on a mystical meaning of bad-luck or misfortune.
But since the Nazis use of the swastika,
some people are trying to differentiate the two meanings
of the swastika by varying its direction -
trying to make the clockwise, Nazi version of the swastika
mean hate and death while the counter-clockwise version
would hold the ancient meaning of the symbol, life and good-luck.
-
Swastika - (Sanskrit "good luck" o
r "well-being", literally "it is good").
The name and first use of the swastika was first mentioned
in the Vedas, the holy texts of Hinduism.
However, while its n
ame is Vedic, it appears in art and design
throughout human history, symbolising many different things;
such as luck, Brahma, the Hindu concept of samsara,
or Surya (the sun).
The swastika is used primarily as a symbol by Hindus,
but trans
ferred to followers of other Indic religions like Buddhists Jainists.
In the West, the Swastika is most easily identified
as the symbol of the Nazis,
who believed that the early Aryans of India,
from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang
, were the prototypical white invaders, and thus saw fit to co-opt the sign
as a symbol of white unity.
It has come to signify fascism outside of India due to its history
in World War II. - Continued ...Wikipedia
-------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------
From The Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters
The swastika symbol represents the path of the migrations of the Hopi clans.
The center of the cross represen
ts Tuwanasavi or the Center of the Universe which lay in what is now the Hopi country in the southwestern part of the US. Tuwanasavi was not the geographic center of North America, but the magnetic or spiritual center formed by the junction of the North-South and the East-West axws along which
the Twins sent their vibratory messages and controlled the rotation of the planet.
Three directions (pasos) for most of the clans were the same: the ice locked back door to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Only 7 clans-the Bear, Eagle, Sun, Kachina, Parrot, Flute and Coyote clans-migrated to South America to the southern paso at it's tip. The rest of some 40 clans, having started from somewhere in southern Mexico or Central America, regarded this as their southern pa
so, their migration thus forming a balanced symbol.
Upon arriving at each paso all the leading clans turned right before retracing their routes.
---------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------
The Swastika Stone
The Swastika Stone is an Iron Age - Rock Carving.
The stone is found in the moors near Ilkley in West Yorkshire.
The stone overlooks the valley of the River Wharfe, and is identical to some of the 'Camunnian Rose' d
esigns in Val Camonica, Italy - nine cup-marks in a cross shape, surrounded by a curved swastika-shaped groove. The Ilkley carving also has an 'appendage' off the east arm - a cup surrounded by a curved hook-shaped groove. It is unique on the moor (which is covered in hundreds of cup-and-ring type carvings) although there is an unfinished swastika design (more angular, without cups) on the nearby Badger Stone.
One of the lines of cups on the Swastika Stone is less than a
degree off magnetic north-south. One naturally looks north from the stone, as it is on a rocky outcrop on the north side of the moor. Was it associated with the Pole Star with which its c
ups align? Why then does its shape describe a clockwise motion, whereas the stars turn anti-clockwise around the pole?
Perhaps the design relates to the shamanic practice of ascent up the 'Pillar of the World' (to use the Lapp term). Numerous Siberian and northern European peoples documented by Mircea Eliade see the Pole Star as the summit of
a pole holding up the sky (seen as a tent). Eliade notes similar beliefs about the Pole Star in Ancient Saxon, Scandinavian and Romanian myths. If, then, one imagines the Swastika design to be the base of a Pillar of the World, the implicit motion of the design makes sense. Something that appears to turn anti-clockwise when looking up from the bottom of a pole will, if it slides down the pole and is viewed from above, appear to turn clockwise.
[color=
red]The Swastika Stone may map the turning sky down onto the ground, forming the bond between 'levels' that is so central to shamanic cosmology.
Also, the 'appen
dage' cup, in relation to the central cup, would have only been a couple of degrees off the summer solstice sunrise during the period 2000BCE - 100CE (covering most of the likely times at which the glyph was carved. The 'hook' groove, if imagined to turn with the swastika, would 'haul' the cup-sun across the sky. This seems to strengthen the swastika-sky connection. [/color]
(I
should note that I do not support the idea that cup-and-ring patterns are maps of stellar constellations. Perhaps some involved rudimentary attempts at this, but no one has found accurate correspondences in any existing patterns. They seem to me to be more generally concerned with access points to alternate realities).
With the Pole Star/Pillar of the World ideas in mind, one could see some cup-and-ring markings as bei
ng related. The 'tail' grooves could be the Pillar reaching up to the cup-pole, surrounded by rings of revolving stars. Some local cup-and-ring markings, like those on the
Panorama Stone, have 'ladders' instead of 'tail' grooves. This image further supports the shamanic interpretation of the petroglyphs, as ladders are among the most frequently occurring representations of shamanic ascent to other worlds. Human figures atop ladders appear in !Kung San rock art related to trance-state ascension.
Cup-and-ring style petroglyphs in the British Isles are usually dated to the
Bronze Age (because some are included in, or in the proximity of, Bronze Age burials) or the Neolithic (because of comparable carvings on Irish passage graves from that period - see also Richard Bradley's recent work 'Signing the Land' for arguments dating this style of prehistoric art to the Neolithic).
The Swastika Stone is arguably associated with this style of rock art, due to its use
of cup-marks, but I have recently come to see it as most likely originating in the Iron Age, or even during Roman occupation. This is because of Verbeia, a Romano-Celtic godd
ess revered by the Roman troops stationed in Ilkley (then Olicana). Verbeia is often accepted as being a version of the Celtic spring/fire goddess Brigid, who is still associated with swastika-like symbols in Ireland. Also, the Roman cohort which set up her altar were recruited from the Lingones, a Gaulish Celtic tribe.
Apparently Romano-Celtic coins have been found in Gaul bearing swastika-like designs. It seems tempting to think that t
he Lingones cohort carved the Swastika Stone when they were here, but this would surely be unusual. Or perhaps the recruited Celtic/Roman troops were influenced in their choice of 'genuis loci', Verbeia, by the native Celts of West Yorkshire, the Brigantes (whose name derives from the goddess Brigantia, related to Brigid), who may have already carved the stone.
The Swastika may map
the turning sky down onto the ground, forming the bond between 'levels' that is so central to shamanic cosmology.
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