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Deepa, Bharath (28 November 2022). "Faith groups seek to save sacred swastikas". Arkansas Online . Retrieved 27 January 2023. The positive and negative portrayals of the swastika symbol. (Author provided) 12,000 Years of Symbolism: The Origins of the Swastika Significance of Swastika in Diwali celebrations". indiatribune.com. 27 October 2010 . Retrieved 11 November 2018.

Svastika Mūsų protėvių lietuvių simbolis | Sarmatai". www.sarmatas.lt (in Lithuanian). 7 February 2010 . Retrieved 8 November 2018. The Swastika Laundry was a laundry founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin, Ireland. In the 1950s, Heinrich Böll came across a van belonging to the company while he was staying in Ireland, leading to some awkward moments before he realised the company was older than Nazism and totally unrelated to it. The chimney of the boiler-house of the laundry still stands, but the laundry has been redeveloped. [171] [172] Finland [ edit ] The national flag of Germany (1935–1945), which differs from the NSDAP flag in that the white circle with the swastika is off-center Among the predominantly Hindu population of Bali, in Indonesia, the swastika is common in temples, homes and public spaces. Similarly, the swastika is a common icon associated with Buddha's footprints in Theravada Buddhist communities of Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia. [252] In Latvia, public display of Nazi and Soviet symbols, including the Nazi swastika, is prohibited in public events since 2013. [223] [224] However, in a court case from 2007 a regional court in Riga held that the swastika can be used as an ethnographic symbol, in which case the ban does not apply. [225]and some less neutral ones that can get you fired at some places. Because, it's fine with me, but probably not so much with many social justice warriors and the politically correct. So think twice, my friend, think twice. 🤔 Anyways, while swastika had been a prominent sign in the West for ages thanks to it's great looks, it's not the place where it has been most used until Hitler decided to make it a symbol of Nazi Germany. Year-Old Ceramic Fragment with Signs, Symbols and Swastika May Be One of the Oldest Examples of Writing

Before the 1930s, the symbol for the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army was a red diamond with a yellow swastika, a tribute to the large Native American population in the southwestern United States. It was later replaced with a thunderbird symbol. The town of Swastika, Ontario, Canada, and the hamlet of Swastika, New York were named after the symbol. Freed, Stanley A. Research Pitfalls as a Result of the Restoration of Museum Specimens, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 376, The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections pp. 229–245, December 1981. The manufacture, distribution or broadcasting of the swastika, with the intent to propagate Nazism, is a crime in Brazil as dictated by article 20, paragraph 1, of federal statute 7.716, passed in 1989. The penalty is a two to five years prison term and a fine. [231]In Lithuania, public display of Nazi and Soviet symbols, including the Nazi swastika, is an administrative offence, punishable by a fine from 150 to 300 euros. According to judicial practice, display of a non-Nazi swastika is legal. [226] In Buddhism, the swastika was originally a symbol of good fortune, prosperity, abundance and eternity. It is directly related to Buddha and can be found carved on statues on the soles of his feet and on his heart. It is said that it contains Buddha’s mind. Left: the left-facing sauwastika is a sacred symbol in the Bon and Mahāyāna Buddhist traditions. Right: the right-facing swastika appears commonly in Hinduism, Jainism and Sri Lankan Buddhism. [51] [52]

An object very much like a hammer or a double axe is depicted among the magical symbols on the drums of Sami noaidi, used in their religious ceremonies before Christianity was established. The name of the Sami thunder god was Horagalles, thought to derive from "Old Man Thor" ( Þórr karl). Sometimes on the drums, a male figure with a hammer-like object in either hand is shown, and sometimes it is more like a cross with crooked ends, or a swastika. [108] Southern Europe [ edit ] Greco-Roman antiquity [ edit ] Various meander patterns, a.k.a. Greek keys Assasi, Reza (2013). "Swastika: The Forgotten Constellation Representing the Chariot of Mithras". Anthropological Notebooks (Supplement: Šprajc, Ivan; Pehani, Peter, eds. Ancient Cosmologies and Modern Prophets: Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture). Ljubljana: Slovene Anthropological Society. XIX (2). ISSN 1408-032X. Swastika Laundry (1912–1987)". Come here to me!. Comeheretome.wordpress.com. 26 April 2010 . Retrieved 3 October 2010. Swastika or Whirling Logs? Should the Ancient Native Symbol Stolen by the Nazis Be Reclaimed?". ICT News. 16 March 2015 . Retrieved 27 January 2023. The symbolic swastika originated in different locations and eras. Its ancient origins throughout the ages gives rise to certain questions. How and why did so many diverse countries and cultures, across many eras, use the same symbol and apparently with the same meaning?Cardona, George (1998). Pāṇini: A Survey of Research. Motilal Banarsidass. p.268. ISBN 978-81-208-1494-3– via Google Books. Thomas, Edward (1880). "The Indian Swastika and Its Western Counterparts". Numismatic Chronicle. Royal Numismatic Society. 20: 18–48. In the mountains of Iran, there are swastikas or spinning wheels inscribed on stone walls, which are estimated to be more than 7,000 years old. One instance is in Khorashad, Birjand, on the holy wall Lakh Mazar. [72] [73]