06-12-2004, 01:34 PM
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Insane
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Originally posted by zxello
I believe that the 'good luck' swastika was reversed, hitler reversed the original to denote the nazi-fascist government he had created.
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Nah, Good Luck Swastikas went both ways. There is an amazingly detailed article on Wikipedia on the history of the symbol.
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The swastika (Sanskrit "good luck" or "well-being", literally "it is good") is a symbol which commonly appears throughout history. The name and first use of the swastika was first mentioned in the Vedas, the holy texts of Hinduism. However, while its name 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 transferred to followers of other Indic religions like Buddhists and 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 and many countries in East Asia due to its history in World War II.
<i>From Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia</i>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
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