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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is common for people to claim that the swastika is only a hindu symbol and that therefore Hitler was using a hindu symbol. While the indo-europeans did not call it the Swastika it is also an ancient indo-european symbol. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Swastika is a Hindu, Buddhist and Jain symbol.
In northern Europe, their traditional Solar Disk is shaped with curving edges and looks rather different from the Dharmic symbol of India. Generally, text books state that Hitler copied it from the Norwegian carrier (that Norwegian airways no longer bore the symbol after hitler had taken it for his party or after WWII, of course). I don't know whether the Norwegian carrier had designed it stylishly with cornered edges which would make it more like our symbol, or whether, when nazism took over the northern European symbol from whatever source (some Asatru today claim it was stolen from their reconstructionists), the nazis made the traditionally curved 'corners' of the European solar disc into sharp corners.
According to a book on this very simple to invent shape (which is known as the Swastika among Hindus, Jains and Buddhists), it is also found in the oldest synagogues in the Middle-East and in Eastern-Europe and the same shape was a sacred symbol to a number of North American native American communities. I think it was the Lakota, Nakota and/or Dakota communities. They have since relinquished this symbol because of the evil that Hitler put it to. This information could also be found on wackypedia - at least, it could be found there 3 years ago.
There is no call to think this symbol has anything to do with 'the Indo-Europeans', when it was ancient among native Americans in North America and found on the floor or wall tiles of very old synagogues.
<b>EDIT:</b> I see much of this is already in the acharya's post of a BBC article (post #3). Is it Finnish Airlines, not Norwegian? Maybe I got Scandinavian airlines mixed up. Didn't know some old churches also had the symbol etched somewhere. Maybe these were buildings constructed from left-overs of pagan shrines or of synagogues? After all, many old churches were.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Savitri Devi's book The Lightning and The Sun http://savitridevi.org/lightning-contents.html it should clear lies about nazism<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> http://koenraadelst.voi.org/articles/fasci...avitriDevi.html
Savitri Devi was a nazi who was only interested in India and Hinduism because she thought it had something to do with Oryans/Indo-Europeans. If she had lived today, she wouldn't touch us with a pole. Not a reliable character.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is common for people to claim that the swastika is only a hindu symbol and that therefore Hitler was using a hindu symbol. While the indo-europeans did not call it the Swastika it is also an ancient indo-european symbol. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Swastika is a Hindu, Buddhist and Jain symbol.
In northern Europe, their traditional Solar Disk is shaped with curving edges and looks rather different from the Dharmic symbol of India. Generally, text books state that Hitler copied it from the Norwegian carrier (that Norwegian airways no longer bore the symbol after hitler had taken it for his party or after WWII, of course). I don't know whether the Norwegian carrier had designed it stylishly with cornered edges which would make it more like our symbol, or whether, when nazism took over the northern European symbol from whatever source (some Asatru today claim it was stolen from their reconstructionists), the nazis made the traditionally curved 'corners' of the European solar disc into sharp corners.
According to a book on this very simple to invent shape (which is known as the Swastika among Hindus, Jains and Buddhists), it is also found in the oldest synagogues in the Middle-East and in Eastern-Europe and the same shape was a sacred symbol to a number of North American native American communities. I think it was the Lakota, Nakota and/or Dakota communities. They have since relinquished this symbol because of the evil that Hitler put it to. This information could also be found on wackypedia - at least, it could be found there 3 years ago.
There is no call to think this symbol has anything to do with 'the Indo-Europeans', when it was ancient among native Americans in North America and found on the floor or wall tiles of very old synagogues.
<b>EDIT:</b> I see much of this is already in the acharya's post of a BBC article (post #3). Is it Finnish Airlines, not Norwegian? Maybe I got Scandinavian airlines mixed up. Didn't know some old churches also had the symbol etched somewhere. Maybe these were buildings constructed from left-overs of pagan shrines or of synagogues? After all, many old churches were.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Savitri Devi's book The Lightning and The Sun http://savitridevi.org/lightning-contents.html it should clear lies about nazism<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> http://koenraadelst.voi.org/articles/fasci...avitriDevi.html
Savitri Devi was a nazi who was only interested in India and Hinduism because she thought it had something to do with Oryans/Indo-Europeans. If she had lived today, she wouldn't touch us with a pole. Not a reliable character.