There is one graphic sign that has an ancient history and deepest meaning, but which was very unlucky with its fans, as a result of which it was discredited for many decades, if not forever. In this case, we are talking about the swastika, which occurred and separated from the image of the symbol of the cross in deep antiquity, when it was interpreted as an exclusively solar, magical sign.

Solar symbols.

Sun sign

The word “swastika” itself is translated from Sanskrit as “welfare”, “welfare” (the Thai greeting “Savatdiya” comes from the Sanskrit “su” and “asti” “). This ancient solar sign- one of the most archaic, and therefore one of the most effective, since it is imprinted in the deep memory of mankind. Swastika - is an indicator of the apparent movement of the Sun around the Earth and dividing the year into 4 seasons. In addition, it includes the idea of ​​the four cardinal points.

This sign was associated with the cult of the Sun among many peoples and is found already in the Upper Paleolithic era and even more often in the Neolithic era, first of all in Asia. Already from the 7th - 6th centuries BC. NS. it is included in Buddhist symbolism, where it means the secret doctrine of the Buddha.

Even before our era, the swastika is actively used in symbolism in India and Iran and ends up in China. This sign was also used in Central America by the Maya, where it symbolized the circulation of the Sun. Around the time of the Bronze Age, the swastika entered Europe, where it became especially popular in Scandinavia. Here she is used as one of the attributes of the supreme god Odin. Almost everywhere, in all corners of the Earth, in all cultures and traditions swastika used as a sun sign and a symbol of well-being. And only when she got into Ancient Greece from Asia Minor, it was changed so that its meaning also changed. Having turned a swastika that was alien to them counterclockwise, the Greeks turned it into a sign of evil and death (in their opinion).

Swastika in the symbols of Russia and other countries

In the Middle Ages, the swastika was somehow forgotten and remembered already closer to the beginning of the twentieth century. And not only in Germany, as one might expect. For some, this may be surprising, but the swastika was used in official symbols in Russia. In 1917, in April, new banknotes in denominations of 250 and 1000 rubles were issued, on which there was an image of a swastika. The swastika was also present on Soviet banknotes of 5 and 10 thousand rubles, which were in use until 1922. And in some parts of the Red Army, for example, among the Kalmyk formations, the swastika was part of pattern of the sleeve sign.

During the First World War, the swastika was applied to the fuselages of the famous American squadron Lafayette. Her images were also featured in the P-12 Briefings, which were in service with the US Air Force from 1929 to 1941. In addition, this symbol was featured on the chevron of the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army from 1923 to 1939.

It is especially worth talking about Finland. This country is currently the only one in the world in which the swastika is present in the official symbols. It is included in the presidential standard and is also included in the country's military and naval flags.

The modern flag of the Finnish Air Force Academy in Kuahava.

According to the explanation given on the website of the Finnish Defense Forces, the swastika as an ancient symbol of the happiness of the Finno-Ugric peoples was adopted as a symbol of the Finnish Air Force back in 1918, that is, before it was used as a fascist sign. And although according to the terms of the peace treaty after the end of World War II, the Finns had to abandon its use, this was not done. In addition, the explanation on the website of the Finnish Defense Forces emphasized that, unlike the Nazi one, the Finnish swastika is strictly vertical.

In modern India, the swastika is ubiquitous.

Note that there is one country in the modern world where images of the swastika can be seen almost at every step. This is India. In it, this symbol has been used in Hinduism for more than one millennium and no government can prohibit it.

The swastika of the fascists

It is worth mentioning the common myth that the Nazis used an inverted swastika. Where he came from is completely incomprehensible, since german swastika the most common is in the direction of the sun. Another thing is that they portrayed her at an angle of 45 degrees, and not vertically. As for the inverted swastika, it is used in the Bon religion, which many Tibetans still follow today. Note that the use of an inverted swastika is not such a rare occurrence: its image is found in ancient Greek culture, in pre-Christian Roman mosaics, medieval coats of arms, and even in the logo of Rudyard Kipling.

An inverted swastika in a Bon monastery.

As for the Nazi swastika, it became the official emblem of the Nazi fascist party in 1923, on the eve of the "beer coup" in Munich. Since September 1935, it has become the main state emblem of Nazi Germany, included in its coat of arms and flag. And for ten years the swastika was directly associated with fascism, turning from a symbol of goodness and well-being into a symbol of evil and inhumanity. Not surprisingly, after 1945, all states, with the exception of Finland and Spain, in which the swastika was in symbolism until November 1975, refused to use this symbol as compromised by fascism.

I was forced to turn to this topic by lengthy observations and reflections on some stable forms in architecture, religious and state symbols, folk celebrations and everything that usually falls under the concept of "tradition". Traditions are passed down from generation to generation and persist for centuries and millennia, sometimes they survive the states, languages ​​and ethnic groups that created them. Traditions carry historical information no less, and possibly even more, than ancient papyri and books, but we are not yet able to extract this information.

Tradition four

Swastika or Kolovrat

The swastika was found on clay vessels from the territory of modern Iraq, which date back to the 5th millennium BC, and in ornaments on ceramics of the South Ural Andronovo culture. The left- and right-sided swastika is found in pre-Aryan culture in the Indus River basin and in ancient China around 2000 BC (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D1%E2%E0%F1%F2%E8%EA % E0).

In 1874, Heinrich Schliemann discovered images of the swastika during excavations in Homeric Troy. In the Celtic period, the swastika was depicted on the altars of Druidic cults, it was often used in religious rituals. The history of this symbol is rooted in the depths of millennia, to the times of Ancient Egypt and India. It is interpreted as an ancient symbol of fertility, and as a symbol of the sun, and as the hammer of Thor - the god of thunder, storm and fertility.

The concept of building a single brick of the Universe was developed, which is used in all hierarchical structures of the Universe, regardless of its size, be it a photon, an atom or a Galaxy. According to this concept, any hierarchical structure should have symmetry - it should be simultaneously located in two proper spherical spaces: left- and right-handed, between which exchange processes take place. In this case, one of the spaces (right) is emitting dynamic, and the other (left) is absorbing. These spaces are not mirror images of each other, they are asymmetrical.

According to Tao, the Universe is powered by the energy of two principles: an active radiating masculine Yang (in our case, this is the right space) and a passive absorbing female Yin (left space).

One gets the impression that the division of Nature into living and inanimate is a human invention. Nature itself does not make such distinctions: in both, the same type of metabolic processes take place. An example of this is the ancient mysterious sign of the Swastika - it is both a symbol of the Universe and Eternity, and a symbol of the movement of matter at all hierarchical levels of its existence - be it an atom, a galaxy, a mineral, living cell or a person.

However, due to the interpretations of medieval European scholastics, as well as the criminal actions of the fascists, there was a gross injustice: the swastika was dishonored and survived its spiritual death, turning from a symbol of Eternal Life into a force of destruction. But let's hope that this phenomenon is temporary and justice will prevail.

Translated from Sanskrit, "swastika" means "a symbol of pure existence and well-being." In India, Tibet, Mongolia and China, swastika signs still adorn the domes and gates of temples. Hitler, when he decided to make the swastika a state symbol, hoped that the swastika would bring him and the Third Reich good luck, but in his deeds he clearly did not move towards the Rule (the right-hand direction of the swastika), so the swastika led the Third Reich to defeat.

In society after the Second World War, an extremely strong negative attitude to the swastika, for some reason the peoples of the world considered that the fault of this war was not Adolf Hitler and his party, but the swastika - a symbol that was widespread during the times of the Aryans.

Poor swastika! So you were defiled by the fascists with their delusional ideas and their criminal actions!

But a lot of time has passed since the Soviet soldiers planted the red flag of victory in the Reichstag, there are already few surviving veterans of that war, for whom the swastika is just fascist sign and nothing more. But the swastika, or Kolovrat, is the oldest Aryan symbol, most likely a talisman, not a sign of aggression. This is a Russian sign, and it is no less Russian than German, because the ancestral home of the Aryans is the territory of the European part of Russia-Russia, and the Aryans of Western Europe and the Aryans of India and Pakistan are those who left the ancestral home of their ancestors in search of the promised lands.

Therefore, it turns out that fascist Germany in 1941 attacked its own, albeit distant, but relatives who turned out to be more faithful to the customs of distant Aryan ancestors than the Germans. So maybe the kolovrat in the military uniform of the fascists did not help them, but helped us - the Russians-Russian-Soviet? It is in this issue that we will try to figure it out now.

It turns out that the sleeve emblems of soldiers and officers of the Red Army of the Southeastern Front in 1918 were also decorated with a swastika with the abbreviation RSFSR. This symbol is often found in ancient Russian ornaments in the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions, he traditionally adorned the dwellings and clothes of the Rus. Found by archaeologists in 1986 in the Southern Urals ancient city Arkaim had the structure of a swastika. Having studied the spread of the swastika in space and time, I became convinced that this symbol is even more ancient than the Aryan past, otherwise how could it be among the Indians of North America?

In ancient times, when in Russia runes were still used for writing, the swastika meant "Come from Heaven." It was the rune SVA - Heaven (Svarog - Heavenly God). (Information from the site: http://planeta.moy.su/blog/svastika)

Galaxies can also be twisted in different directions. In the photo on the left, the galaxy is rotating to the left, and in the photo on the right, it is rotating to the right. What is the reason for this is still unknown. It can only be assumed that the ejection of matter from a black hole located in the center of the Galaxies is asymmetric, more and at a higher speed are ejected in one direction. Both photos were taken from the NASA website.

The swastika continues to be used in the United States to this day. In Squaw Valley in 2000, they tried to accuse a cattle owner of sympathizing with Nazism solely on the grounds that he branded cattle with the swastika that he inherited from his fathers and grandfathers.

In 1995, in the town of Glendale, California, a group of anti-fascists tried to force the city authorities to replace 930 lamp posts installed on the streets of the city in 1924-1926, since their cast-iron pedestals of these posts are surrounded by a swastika ornament. The local local lore society had to prove that the pillars, purchased at one time from a metallurgical company from Ohio, had nothing to do with the Nazis, and therefore in no way could offend anyone's feelings, and the swastika design was based on local traditions Navajo Indians (http://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html).

The swastika with a lily in the center on Boy Scouts' gratitude badges was depicted until 1940. The founder of the scout movement Robert Baden-Powell then explained that it depicts a schematic map of Atlantis with 4 rivers flowing from a single center.

Objects with the image of the swastika are often found by archaeologists during excavations in different parts Europe and Asia. Sometimes a swastika adorns weapons, and more often completely peaceful things like pots and combs.

The left-handed swastika in the royal family in Russia was used as a talisman and as a symbolic display of the Tsar's personality. Before her execution in 1918, the former empress drew a swastika on the wall of the Ipatiev house. The owner of the photograph of this swastika was General Alexander Kutepov. Kutepov kept the icon found on the body of the former empress.

Inside the icon was an entry in which the Green Dragon Society was commemorated. The Green Society, akin to the Thule Society, is still in Tibet today. Before Hitler came to power in Berlin, lived a Tibetan lama, nicknamed "the man in green gloves." Hitler visited him regularly. This lama allegedly told the newspapers three times without errors how many Nazis would be in the elections to the Reichstag. The initiates called the lama "the holder of the keys to the kingdom of Agharti."

In 1926, colonies of Tibetans and Hindus appeared in Berlin and Munich. When the Nazis gained access to the finances of the Reich, they began sending large expeditions to Tibet; these studies were not interrupted until 1943. On the day when Soviet troops ended the battle for Berlin, among the corpses of the last defenders of Nazism, about a thousand bodies of people from Tibet were found.

Ignorant London reviewers of the film about the Romanovs called Empress Alexandra Feodorovna "the fascist Brunhilde." And the empress only consecrated the house of Ipatiev with a "talisman" according to the ancient Aryan tradition, anticipating the end of life.

Once the ancient Aryans, who moved from the regions of the Russian Plain in a southern and southeastern direction, brought the swastika to Mesopotamia, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - this is how the swastika got into the cultures of eastern peoples. She was depicted on painted dishes of ancient Susiana (Mesopotamian Elam on the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf in the III millennium BC). So the swastika, perhaps, entered the most ancient cultures of non-Indo-European peoples. A little later, the Semitic peoples began to use the swastika: the ancient Egyptians and Chaldeans, whose state was located on the western coast of the Persian Gulf.

Today the swastika is considered by the Indians as a symbol of movement and eternal rotation of the world - "the cycle of samsara". This symbol was allegedly imprinted on the heart of the Buddha and therefore is sometimes called the "Seal of the Heart". It is placed on the chest of initiates in the secrets of Buddhism after their death.

Later, the swastika penetrated into Tibet, then into Central Asia and China. A century later, it appeared in Japan and Southeast Asia, along with Buddhism, which made it its symbol. In Japan, the swastika is called manji. Here she can be seen on the flags, armor and family crests of the samurai.

The swastika was used not only by the Sumerians, Etruscans, ancient Greeks, Romans, it is known not only in Hinduism and Buddhism. This symbol can be found among Christians and even among Jews in synagogues.

According to legend, Genghis Khan wore on right hand a ring with the image of a swastika, into which was set a magnificent ruby ​​- a sun stone. In the oldest synagogue in Israel, the Swastika is depicted on the floor, although it is believed that the Jews are almost the only tribe that does not consider the swastika a sacred symbol.

It was unexpected for me to learn that the swastika was used not only by the Aryan peoples. It was also known by the Indians in North America, and they knew and used it long before the arrival of Europeans. Where did the Navajo Indians get the swastika?

The ancient Aryans captured the Kolovrat-swastika in the Neolithic on the tusks of mammoths. Under the golden Kolovrat on a scarlet banner, Prince Svyatoslav went to Constantinople and the Khazars. This symbol was used pagan magi in rituals associated with the ancient Slavic Vedic Faith, and to this day it is embroidered by Vyatka, Kostroma, Arkhangelsk and Vologda needlewomen.

After some period of oblivion, the swastika again became popular in European culture in the 19th century as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. But this is her modern interpretation rather than its significance in religious cults.

As for the origins of the swastika, we can unequivocally say that this is a very ancient sign, unfortunately, discredited in the 20th century by the German fascists. I think that he undoubtedly has Aryan roots and at one time was scattered by the Aryan tribes throughout the Earth. It happened probably at least 12-15 thousand years ago. Then on the globe there were two civilizations - the Atlanteans (or the peoples of the sea) and the Aryans (or the peoples of the land). Relations between them were not at all peaceful. If the Atlanteans influenced different ethnic groups, seizing the sea coasts, where they had numerous fortress cities, and of them interacted with the local population, then the Aryans lived in the interior of the continents, where they could not be greatly disturbed by the Atlanteans.

Plato mentions this when he writes that the ancestors of the ancient Greeks opposed the Atlanteans in the eastern Mediterranean. The Aryan origin of the ancient Greeks is beyond doubt. But the eastern Mediterranean, Mediterranean and atlantic coast Africa and the Atlantic coast of Europe were probably completely controlled by the Atlanteans.

When Atlantis plunged into the abyss of the sea, only its colony cities and those Atlanteans and Atlanteans half-breeds with the aborigines who inhabited these colonies survived.

The civilization of the Aryans in the global catastrophe probably suffered less, especially on the high plateaus, where the wave of the catastrophic tsunami (global flood) did not reach. But the distant descendants of the Atlanteans and Aryans for several millennia forgot about whose symbol the trident was, and whose symbol was the swastika, and began to use both. I do not exclude the fact that already in Atlantis itself, before the catastrophe, both symbols were used. How else would the swastika get to the Indians of North America?

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Crosses on the wings will also come down ...

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Many believe that the main symbol of the Third Reich - a black swastika on a red background - was invented by Hitler himself or people from his inner circle. But in fact, such an opinion is nothing more than a delusion. The Nazi shrine, like, incidentally, other attributes of Nazi Germany, existed long before the possessed Fuhrer came to power and did not initially carry such a sinister meaning.

The main emblem of the Third Reich has a long history. It was widespread in Iran already in the 6th millennium. BC NS. Later, the swastika was found in the Far East, in Central and Southeast Asia, in Tibet and Japan. It was also widely used by pre-Hellenic Greece. In Kievan Rus this sign, called "Kolovrat", was also very popular. The swastika did not pass by the indigenous inhabitants of the American continents. And the peoples of the Caucasus and the Baltic Pomors used it as an element of ornamentation even at the beginning of the 20th century.

Naturally, all this time, no one associated the cross with curved ends with mass murder, destructive war and crimes against humanity. By the way, historical information that this sign was used by the ancient Germanic tribes, no. The fascists who came to power were looking for a suitable emblem for the Nazi state and, without hesitation, opted for the swastika, christening it with an ancient German, or even an Aryan symbol.

Meaning of this symbol not exactly established. There is a version that it was one of the varieties of a cross with broken ends, symbolizing, according to historians, the inner world of a person - the space located between perpendicular intersecting lines. However, the most common view of the swastika is that it is seen as a solar, that is, a sun sign. Ethnographers consider it to be just a harmless symbol of the movement of the heavenly body and the changing seasons.

For some reason, Adolf Hitler saw something fundamentally different in her. In his opinion, the cross with curved ends personified the superiority of the Aryans over other peoples. What guided the German Fuhrer in making such an assessment is a mystery.

Moreover, it is reliably known that the idea to use the swastika as an emblem did not come to Hitler's head. The main symbol of the Third Reich was "presented" by ... the German masonic lodge! More precisely, its successor is the secret organization "Tule". Initially, this society was engaged in the study and popularization of ancient history and folklore. However, its members kept their nose to the wind and gladly responded to Hitler's ideas. Thule's ideology began to be based on the concept of German racial superiority, anti-Semitism and the Pan-German dream of a powerful new German Reich. All this was densely "seasoned" with occultism: members of the society performed special ceremonies and magic rituals. Among the symbols used in these rituals was the swastika.

Hitler, who was always interested in the occult, liked this sign, and he first decided to make it the emblem of his party. The leader of the NSDAP slightly modified the swastika, and in the summer of 1920 a symbol was born that, two decades later, terrified all of Europe: a black cross with curved ends inscribed in a white circle on a red background. The red symbolized the social ideals of the party, while the white symbolized the nationalist ones. The cross indicated the victory and supremacy of the Aryan race.

After Hitler came to power, the swastika became an indispensable attribute of the state, official, military and corporate symbols of Germany. The Germans treasured this "sign of superiority" so much that in 1935 a special decree was even issued "On prohibiting Jews from hanging a flag with a swastika." Apparently, the Nazis believed that by their touch, "racially impure" elements would desecrate their shrine.

During the years of the Third Reich, the swastika was used everywhere: on banknotes, dishes, souvenirs. The streets of German cities were hung with flags and banners with this sign during any festivities, and they were hung so tightly that passers-by began to ripple in the eyes. However, sometimes the Nazi shrine was not used for its intended purpose: ladies' dress was considered the squeak of fashion, the fabric of which was decorated with an ornament of thousands of small crosses.

Perhaps the swastika would have remained a symbol of the sun, fire and fertility. If not for the Second World War, with the beginning of which, thanks to Hitler, it definitely ceased to be "sunny".

More organic and appropriate from the point of view of racial theory was the use of the runes by the Nazis, which were the basis of the writing of the ancient Germanic and Scandinavian peoples. As you know, since ancient times, runic signs were not only letters, but also had a magical meaning - they were used for fortune telling and as protective amulets. Historians believe that, introducing runes into everyday life, Hitler and his entourage tried not only to develop patriotism among the inhabitants of Germany, but also hoped to use runic signs as a magic weapon. True, the Fuehrer interpreted them selectively: he left only those values ​​that corresponded to his worldview. So, the Zig rune, the double image of which became the "logo" of the SS, in the canonical interpretation meant the desire for light and the enrichment of the spiritual world, as well as the flourishing creativity... Naturally, the valiant SS men did not need such qualities, therefore, in Hitler's interpretation, the "lightning" rune meant thunder, lightning and, again, the superiority of the Aryan race.

The "rented" symbols also include the eagle and oak branches. The authorship of these signs dates back to the Roman Empire. Decorating the coat of arms of the German Reich, Hitler swung, no less, at the most common attributes of the power of the Roman Caesars.

Such an ominous insignia as a skull ("death's head"), the Nazis borrowed from the near-Masonic order - the Rosicrucians. And at first this gloomy image symbolized, in the opinion of its "discoverers", the victory of spirit over mortal matter. Remember the medieval philosophers who pondered with a skull in their hands on the topic: "Poor Yorick ..."? But in the hands, more precisely, on the fingers of the SS officers, who placed the "dead head" on silver rings, this sign acquired a completely different meaning. He became the embodiment of cruelty, destruction and death.

So do not be mistaken: the Nazis did not themselves come up with the symbolism of the "millennial" Reich. All signs and attributes used by them have existed for a long time and were used for much more humane purposes.