I was forced to turn to this topic by long-term 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 are preserved for centuries and millennia; sometimes they outlive the states, languages ​​and ethnic groups that created them. Traditions carry historical information no less, and perhaps even more, than ancient papyri and books, but we do not yet know how 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. Left- and right-sided swastikas are 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 of Homer's Troy. During the Celtic period, the swastika was depicted on the altars of druidic cults, and it was often used in religious rituals. The history of this symbol goes back thousands of years, 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, storms 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 must have symmetry - it must simultaneously be located in two of its own spherical spaces: left-handed and right-handed, between which exchange processes occur. In this case, one of the spaces (right) is radiating 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: the active radiating male principle Yang (in our case, this is the right space) and the passive absorbing female Yin (left space).

It seems that the division of Nature into living and nonliving is a human invention. Nature itself does not make such distinctions: the same type of metabolic processes occur in both. 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 person.

However, due to the interpretations of medieval European scholastics, as well as the criminal actions of the fascists, a blatant injustice has occurred: The swastika was dishonored and experienced 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 “symbol of pure existence and well-being.” In India, Tibet, Mongolia and China, swastika signs still decorate 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 actions he clearly did not move towards the Right (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 negative attitude towards the swastika strengthened; for some reason the peoples of the world believed that the fault of this war was not Adolf Hitler and his party, but the swastika - a symbol that was widespread during the time of the Aryans.

Poor swastika! So the fascists spoiled you with their crazy ideas and their criminal actions!

But a lot of time has passed since Soviet soldiers planted the red flag of victory at the Reichstag; there are few veterans of that war left alive, for whom the swastika is just a fascist sign and nothing more. But the swastika, or Kolovrat, is the oldest Aryan symbol, most likely a talisman, and not a sign of aggression. This is also 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 Rus'-Russia, and the Aryans Western Europe and the Aryans of India and Pakistan are those who left the ancestral homeland of their ancestors in search of the promised lands.

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

It turns out that the sleeve emblems of soldiers and officers of the Red Army of the South-Eastern Front in 1918 were also decorated with a swastika with the abbreviation RSFSR. This symbol is often found in ancient Russian ornaments in Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions, it traditionally decorated the homes and clothes of the Rus. Found by archaeologists in 1986 on Southern Urals The ancient city of Arkaim had a swastika structure. Having studied the distribution 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 have ended up among the Indians of North America?

In ancient times, when runes were still used for writing in Rus', the swastika meant “Coming 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 this is connected with is still unknown. One can only assume that the ejection of matter from a black hole located in the center of galaxies is asymmetrical; more of it is ejected in one direction and at a higher speed. Both photos are 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 one cattle owner of sympathizing with Nazism only on the grounds that he branded his cattle with a swastika brand, 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 lampposts installed on the city streets in 1924-1926, since their cast-iron pedestals of these pillars were surrounded by swastika ornaments. The local history society had to prove that the poles, purchased at one time from a metallurgical company from Ohio, had nothing to do with the Nazis, and therefore could not offend anyone’s feelings, and the swastika design was based on the local traditions of the Navajo Indians (http ://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html).

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

Items with the image of a swastika are often found by archaeologists during excavations in different parts of Europe and Asia. Sometimes swastikas decorate weapons, and more often very 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 reflection of the personality of the king. Before her execution in 1918, the former empress drew a swastika on the wall of Ipatiev’s 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 there was a note that commemorated the Green Dragon society. The Green Society, akin to the Thule Society, is still located in Tibet today. Before Hitler came to power, there lived a Tibetan lama in Berlin, nicknamed “the man with green gloves.” Hitler visited him regularly. This lama allegedly reported to the newspapers three times without error how many Nazis would be elected to the Reichstag. The initiates called the lama “the holder of the keys to the kingdom of Agartha.”

In 1926, colonies of Tibetans and Hindus appeared in Berlin and Munich. When the Nazis gained access to Reich finances, 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, about a thousand bodies of people from Tibet were found among the corpses of the last defenders of Nazism.

Ignorant London reviewers of the film about the Romanovs called Empress Alexandra Feodorovna a “fascist Brünnhilde.” And the empress just consecrated Ipatiev’s house with a “talisman”, according to the ancient Aryan tradition, anticipating the end of her life.

Once upon a time, 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 entered the cultures of the eastern peoples. She was depicted on painted pottery from ancient Susiana (Mesopotamian Elam on the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf in the 3rd millennium BC). So the swastika may have entered into ancient cultures non-Indo-European peoples. Somewhat later, the swastika began to be used by Semitic peoples: the ancient Egyptians and Chaldeans, whose state was located on the western shore of the Persian Gulf.

Today, the swastika is considered by Indians to be a symbol of movement and the eternal rotation of the world - the “circle of samsara.” This symbol was supposedly imprinted on the Buddha's heart and is therefore sometimes called the "Seal of the Heart". It is placed on the chest of those initiated into the mysteries of Buddhism after their death.

Later, the swastika spread to Tibet, then to Central Asia and China. Another century later, it appeared in Japan and in South-East Asia together with Buddhism, which made it its symbol. In Japan, the swastika is called manji. Here it can be seen on samurai flags, armor and family crests.

The swastika was used not only by the Sumerians, Etruscans, ancient Greeks, and 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 his right hand a ring with the image of a swastika, into which was set a magnificent ruby ​​- the sun stone. In the oldest synagogue in Israel, a 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. The Indians in North America also knew it, and they knew and used it long before the Europeans arrived there. Where did the Navajo Indians get the swastika?

The ancient Aryans imprinted the Kolovrat-swastika on the tusks of mammoths back in the Neolithic. Under the golden Kolovrat on a scarlet banner, Prince Svyatoslav marched against Constantinople and the Khazars. This symbol was used pagan wise men in rituals associated with ancient Slavic Vedic Faith, and it is still embroidered by Vyatka, Kostroma, Arkhangelsk and Vologda needlewomen.

After a 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 its modern interpretation, and not its significance in religious cults.

As for the origins of the swastika, we can definitely say that it is a very ancient sign, unfortunately, discredited in the 20th century by the German fascists. I think that it undoubtedly has Aryan roots and at one time was spread by Aryan tribes throughout the Earth. This probably happened at least 12-15 thousand years ago. Then on Globe there were two civilizations - the Atlanteans (or peoples of the sea) and the Aryans (or peoples of the land). The relationship between them was not at all peaceful. If the Atlanteans influenced different ethnic groups, capturing the sea coasts, where they had numerous fortified cities, and from 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 resisted 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 sank into the depths of the sea, only its colony cities and those Atlanteans and half-breeds of Atlanteans and aborigines who inhabited these colonies survived.

The Aryan civilization probably suffered less during the global catastrophe, especially on the elevated 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 was the trident and whose symbol was the swastika, and began to use both. It is also possible that both symbols were used in Atlantis itself before the disaster. Otherwise, how would the swastika get to the Indians of North America?

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The swastika, that is, a cross with curved ends, has been known to many peoples, including the Slavs, for a long time. The ends of the swastika can be bent either clockwise or counterclockwise. Its color may be different, there is different variants shapes and location. Banned fascist swastika at the Nuremberg trials, as Nazi symbols. Our Red Army soldiers also once wore a swastika on their uniforms.

This symbol, the swastika, has been used by the ancient Aryans, Slavs and other peoples since time immemorial. Hitler simply made the swastika a symbol of his party, and when he came to power, a symbol of the Third Reich.

Denotes the symbol of the Sun, Solstice.

The swastika is one of the most widespread graphic symbols, which has been used by many peoples of the world since ancient times. This symbol was present on clothing, coats of arms, weapons, and household items. In Sanskrit, svasti means happiness. In America these are four letters L, four words Love, Life, Luck, fate, luck, Light.

Hitler made the swastika a symbol of Nazi Germany and since then the attitude towards it has changed. She became a symbol of Nazism, barbarism, and misanthropy. The Nazi swastika was a black hoe-shaped cross with ends pointing towards right side and rotated at an angle of 45 degrees. After the Second World War, the image of the swastika was banned in a number of countries.

The German swastika appeared during the reign of Hitler. He approved it as a symbol of the Aryan nation.

But the swastika appeared before Hitler’s Germany, and among many peoples it symbolized the symbol of the Sun, solar energy. True, these two swastikas differ in that the corners of the cross are turned in the other direction.

A swastika is a cross with continued sides, both clockwise and counterclockwise.

It gained great popularity after the Second World War, when the Nazis made the swastika with the sides turning clockwise their symbol and became famous throughout the world...

In fact, the swastika appeared a very long time ago and was a symbol among many peoples, mainly from the positive side - it meant movement, the sun, or both: the movement of the sun, as well as light and, in many ways, well-being...

Germany acquired this symbol in the summer of 1920, then Hitler approved it as a symbol of the party of which he was the leader...

By the way, Hitler thought that this symbol, the swastika, actually reflected the struggle of the Aryans and as a celebration of the victory of the Aryan race...

The swastika represents the oldest graphic symbol? or?, which was used by almost all nations in the world, but Nazi Germany used the swastika as a sign of Nazism and because of this coincidence everyone thinks that it is banned.

The German swastika is not just any swasti used by all nations as a symbol of the Sun and prosperity.

The Nazi swastika has distinctive features - it is a quadrangular cross with corners bent at 45 degrees and turned to the right. For comparison, the suasti (Kolovrat among the Slavs) is turned to the left. Well, the color scheme different nations to indicate the symbol of the sun is different

The Nazis took the idea of ​​the swastika from Indian culture.

In India, the swastika is a visual embodiment of the sound Om:



The Nazis, without the knowledge of the Hindus, took the idea of ​​this sign from them and distorted the meaning of the symbol.

Even the word Aryan is taken from the Indian Arya, which means supreme, pure.

In India, this word was used in a positive sense: polite, sophisticated, learned, and the Nazis called the Aryans the highest class of people.

Many Germans behaved somewhat like Indians. Himmler practiced yoga, called himself a Kshatriya (the second most important caste in India) and claimed to have fought a just war.



The Nazis received new spiritual knowledge from India from the spy Savitri Devi. She conveyed to Hitler all the information about the customs of India, and the SS leader remade everything to suit his tune.



Repeating the traditions of the Hindus in his country, Hitler wanted to become the last avatar of Vishnu - Kalki. God in this incarnation had to destroy everything unclean and repopulate the planet. This was Hitler’s key idea - he wanted to remove the unworthy and leave people of the highest rank on the planet - the Aryans.

Is swastika prohibited?

The swastika is now prohibited only in the Hitlerite version. I’m from Kyiv, and I once saw how people gathered in front of the Verkhovna Rada building strange people in identical outfits with an image very similar to a swastika. It turns out that these were fans of Hinduism. In this way, they showed that you can come to terms with everything, and that you need to be wiser (I talked to them).

And you should never blindly believe in anything! The Germans believed Hitler, and what did this lead to? Analyze, don’t be fooled and be fair. No philosophy or idea is worthy of existence if it divides people.

The German swastika is the opposite symbol of the sun. It is not prohibited everywhere. I know for sure that it is still prohibited in Germany. In many computer games the swastika was replaced by another symbol, especially for Germany.

In general, the swastika is a symbol of the Sun, good luck, happiness and creation. It has been used at all times and by all peoples, but it probably began to be banned after the Nazis began to use it.

The swastika is a graphic symbol. Different peoples had their own images of the swastika at different times. The most commonly used is the 4-pointed swastika. The German swastika was approved by Hitler himself as a symbol of the workers' party. She represented

Many legends and speculations have accumulated around this ancient symbol, so someone may be interested in reading about this ancient solar cult symbol.


In fact, I, who grew up in the USSR, had a prejudiced attitude towards the swastika as a fascist sign. But is this really so? The swastika is one of the most archaic sacred symbols, found among many peoples of the world. Swastika symbols were used to designate calendar signs back in the days of the Scythian kingdom.

Many people nowadays Swastika associated with fascism and Hitler. This has been hammered into people's heads for the last 70 years. It's time to fix the situation.
IN modern schools, and in lyceums and gymnasiums in Russia, modern children are told a rather crazy hypothesis that the Swastika is a German fascist cross made up of four letters “G”, denoting the first letters of the leaders of Nazi Germany: Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels (sometimes it is replaced by Hess ). Well, variations on this theme, Germany Hitler Goebbels Himmler. At the same time, few children think about the fact that in German surnames: HITLER, HIMMLER, GERING, GEBELS (HESS), there are no Russian letters “G”. I don’t know what they pass off as truth in Western schools, but I’m more than sure that there, too, the swastika is primarily a fascist symbol.Unfortunately, the true meaning of this runic symbol has been overwritten by this stereotype over the past 70 years. At the same time, from time immemorial, the swastika was an integral part of the Slavic ornament.

Moreover, without wanting to look into the depths of centuries, you can find more intelligible examples. Not many people remember that the Swastika was depicted on Soviet money in the period from 1917 to 1923 as a legalized state symbol; not immediately noticeable, but it is a fact. She's in the center.

As you can see, Soviet power is already 18.

Have no doubt, before the stars she was no less popular.

And not only on Russian money it was. Here are the Lithuanian five litas.

They also forgot that the sleeve patches of soldiers and officers of the Red Army during the same period also had the Swastika in laurel wreath, and inside the Swastika were the letters R.S.F.S.R. And how can we remember when almost 100 years have passed since then? That is, one must not remember, but know.

There is a hypothesis that the Golden Swastika-Kolovrat was given to Adolf Hitler by Comrade I.V. Stalin himself as a party symbol in 1920. But this may have already been invented, I’m not sure.

Well, for balance, American troops of the 1930s. 45th Infantry Division.

And the famous Lafayette flying division.



There were also Finnish, Polish and Latvian swastika patches. If you are interested, you can find them all on the Internet yourself.

A thoughtful and not stupid person will always distinguish a swastika painted on the grave of a veteran from a swastika in an ethnic ornament.

The antics of neo-fascists and just bastards who paint black crosses on the tombstones of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Riga cannot in any way be attributed to ethnic rituals. And yet, with all my uncompromising attitude towards fascism and the results of the war and a rather biased attitude towards the swastika, I decided to dig up information on this topic. But since we’ve touched on the most famous interpretation of this symbol today, let’s talk about fascism itself.
The term Fascism comes from the Latin "fascio" ligament, bundle. In Russian, a similar word is fascina - a bunch of branches, twigs. Fashina symbolizes something strong, reliable, created from something weak and fragile. Remember the parable about the fingers, which are each weak on their own, but when clenched into a fist they represent strength. Or historical example, when you can easily break each arrow, but it is impossible to do this with a whole bunch.

“The Roman soldiers of Julius Caesar, who conquered Egypt, began to call themselves the first fascists. (In many ways, their methods were quite fascist in the modern sense) In the image of the Medjays, the Romans believed that they were bringing order and law to the barbarian country. The symbol of the emperor’s power was considered a military "an ax covered with a bunch of rods and intertwined with ribbons, which was called fascina. The symbolism is that around strong power (axe), through small restrictions (ribbon), peoples (rods) will grow stronger." (c) But let’s return to the swastika sign, the runic solar symbol.

We will return to the symbolism of the Third Reich towards the end of the publication. In the meantime, let's look at the swastika without shudder or prejudice. Let's try to get rid of the contemptuous look at this ancient symbol of eternal rotation.

I decided to distance myself from the presentation of this topic by new Russian preachers. It is impossible to deny the fact that the ancient Slavic traditions used the solar sign of the swastika, but their approach was very intrusive. In order not to slide into the opposite direction of misconceptions, let’s look at the swastika a little more broadly.

Considering that not everyone can handle long texts, I decided to show the collected examples to rehabilitate the sign itself. Let's just pay attention to the diversity of swastikas in the cultures of different peoples. This should be enough to understand the essence.

Let's start, perhaps, with the universe. Find Ursa Major, and to the left of it you will see a constellation in the form of the Swastika. I don’t know if this is true, but now it is excluded from their atlases starry sky. This is what they say in the articles. I haven't checked it myself, it's not that important.


Doesn't it look like a spiral galaxy?
And here are the runic symbols of the ancestors. There are also many examples and interpretation options.

And India, where the swastika is very common.

Even in the jungle you can find a swastika.

What do you think is in the picture? This is a fragment of the robe of an Orthodox priest of the highest church rank.

Do you still believe that the swastika was invented by the fascists of Nazi Germany?

Do you recognize anyone in this picture? The Russian Emperor hurries to his car.

But you are not looking at the king, but at the hood of the car. Found it? The appearance of the swastika at the court of the last Russian Tsar is associated with the name of his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna. Perhaps here the influence of the doctor Pyotr Badmaev on the empress was manifested. Buryat by origin, Lamaist, Badmaev preached Tibetan medicine and maintained connections with Tibet. There are known images of the gammatic cross on hand-drawn postcards of the Empress.

“The left-sided swastika had a special meaning in the royal family and was used as a talisman and as a symbolic reflection of the king’s personality. Before the execution, the former empress drew a swastika on the wall of Ipatiev’s house and wrote something. The image and inscription were photographed and then destroyed. The owner of this photograph was the leader of the white movement in exile, General Alexander Kutepov. In addition, Kutepov kept an icon found on the body of the former empress. Inside the icon there was a note in which the Green Dragon society was mentioned. Strange telegrams signed “Green” were received from Sweden by Grigory Rasputin. Society " The Greens," akin to the Thule Society, is located in Tibet. Before Hitler came to power, there lived a Tibetan lama in Berlin, nicknamed the "man with green gloves." Hitler regularly visited him. The Lama reported to the newspapers three times without error how many Nazis would be elected to the Reichstag. The initiates called the lama “the holder of the keys to the kingdom of Agharti.” In 1926, still small colonies of Tibetans and Hindus appeared in Berlin and Munich. When the Nazis gained access to the Reich's finances, they began to send large expeditions to Tibet, this vital connection was 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 death volunteers, people of Tibetan blood, were found. (c)

In July 1918, immediately after the execution royal family, the troops of the White Army occupied Yekaterinburg. First of all, the officers hurried to the Ipatiev House - the last refuge of the august persons. There, among other things, they saw signs familiar from the icons - crosses with curved ends. It was a left-turning, so-called collective swastika - “amulet”. As it turned out later, it was painted by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

It is for these signs that ignorant London reviewers of the film about the Romanovs will later dub her the “fascist Brünnhilde,” unaware of the ancient Christian Indian traditions of leaving the swastika where the attributes of any holiday are removed after its completion, so that evil does not penetrate there. The Empress consecrated the house with an “amulet”, anticipating the end of the celebration of life...(c)

And this photo shows Jackie Bouvier, the future Jackie Kennedy, in a festive costume associated with culture American Indians.

The geography is expanding.
In India, the Swastika is a symbol of esoteric Buddhism. According to legend, it was imprinted on the heart of Buddha, for which it received the name “Seal of the Heart.”

Let's look into the history of the spread of the swastika.
"Together with one branch of the Indo-European tribes that moved from the southern regions of the Russian Plain in a southeastern direction and reached through Mesopotamia and Central Asia to the Indus Valley, the swastika entered the cultures of the eastern peoples.
It was common on painted dishes of ancient Susiana (Mesopotamian Elam on the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf - 3rd millennium BC) - on bowls, where it was placed in the very center of the composition. This is perhaps a typical example when the swastika was used by the most ancient non-Indo-European people. The signs were symmetrically located relative to a rectangle crossed out by an oblique cross indicating the ground.
Somewhat later, the swastika began to be used by Semitic peoples: the ancient Egyptians and Chaldeans, whose state was located on the western shore of the Persian Gulf.

If desired, you can even find a combination of a swastika and the six-pointed star of Magendovid in the ornament.

With the same wave of Indo-Europeans in the middle of the second millennium BC. The swastika penetrated into the culture of North India. There it successfully existed until our time, but acquired a mystical meaning.

In the most general interpretation, the swastika is considered by Indians to be a symbol of movement and the eternal rotation of the world - the “circle of samsara.” This symbol was supposedly imprinted on the Buddha's heart and is therefore sometimes called the "Seal of the Heart". It is placed on the chest of those initiated into the mysteries of Buddhism after their death. It is carved on every rock, temple, and wherever the founders of Buddhism left their milestones.

Later, the swastika penetrates into Tibet, then into Central Asia and China. Another century later, the swastika came to Japan and Southeast Asia along with Buddhism, which made it its symbol."

Together with Buddhism from India, the swastika penetrated into Tibet and Japan. In Japan, the swastika symbol is called Manji. Manji can be seen on samurai flags, armor, and family crests.

Along with North America and the east of Eurasia is marked with a solar sign and a Japanese man wearing a manji-decorated helmet.

Japanese print from the 18th century

Japanese roof

Here is the facade of a building in Kathmandu decorated with a swastika.

And here is Buddha himself.

At this point it was possible to put an end to it. For a general understanding that there is nothing bad in the swastika itself, these examples are already enough. But we'll look at a few more. The East generally preserves its history more carefully and observes traditions. Pagoda tower with golden swastika, solar sign.

Another Buddha
Isn’t this an example of the fact that the solar Kolovrat is not just an ornament of a decorative nature, but a sacred symbol with a deep meaning? sacred meaning. That’s why we can see it on a Buddhist mandala.

And on the sacred stupa

Modern Nepal

The Kolovrat swastika is also imprinted on the tusks of mammoths. Under the golden Kolovrat on a scarlet banner, the legendary Prince Svyatoslav marched on Constantinople and beat the Khazars. This radiant symbol was used by pagan Magi (priests) in rituals associated with the ancient Slavic Vedic Faith, and is still embroidered by Vyatka, Kostroma,
Vologda needlewomen.

In early Christianity, the swastika was known as a gamma cross; until the end of the Middle Ages it was one of the emblems of Christ; it could often be found on Orthodox icons. As an example, a swastika on a headdress Mother of God icons called "Sovereign". Remember the ornament on the festive robe of the Orthodox priest above? From there.

According to legend, Genghis Khan wore on his right hand a ring with the image of a swastika, into which was set a magnificent ruby ​​- the sun stone. In the oldest synagogue in Israel, a 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.

The Swastika again became popular in European culture in the 19th century. It began to be used everywhere in ornamentation as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. There has even been an interpretation that the Swastika symbol must be understood as an abbreviation of four words starting with Latin letter“L”: Light - Light, Sun; Love - Love; Life - Life; Luck - Fate, Luck, Happiness. This is already its modern interpretation, without signs of a pagan cult.

The swastika currently appears on the Finnish presidential standard.

Created in 1921 according to the sketches of Adolf Hitler, the party symbols and flag of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) subsequently became the state symbols of Germany (1933-1945). It is possible that Hitler, when choosing the swastika as an emblem, was guided by the theory of the German geopolitician Karl Haushofer, who believed that the swastika was a symbol of thunder, fire and fertility among the ancient Aryan magicians.

It was Haushofer who came up with the expression: “Space as a factor of force,” which Hitler borrowed from him. In the mind of Hitler himself, the swastika symbolized the “struggle for the triumph of the Aryan race.” By this time, the Swastika was already actively used by Austrian anti-Semitic organizations.

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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, as well as other attributes of Nazi Germany, existed long before the possessed Fuhrer came to power and initially did not 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 e. Later the swastika was found on 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 spare the indigenous people of the Americas either. And the peoples of the Caucasus and the Baltic Pomors used it as an element of ornaments even at the beginning of the 20th century.

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

The meaning of this symbol is not precisely established. There is a version that it was one of the varieties of the cross with broken ends, symbolizing, according to historians, inner world human - the space located between perpendicularly intersecting lines. However, the most common view of the swastika is that it is seen as a solar sign. Ethnographers consider it just a harmless symbol of the movement of the heavenly body and the change of seasons.

For some reason, Adolf Hitler saw in her something fundamentally different. In his opinion, the cross with curved ends personified the superiority of the Aryans over other peoples. What guided the German Fuhrer when 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 mind. Main symbol The Third Reich was “given” by... the German Masonic Lodge! More precisely, its successor is the secret organization “Thule”. 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 responded with pleasure to Hitler's ideas. The Thule ideology began to be based on the concept of German racial superiority, anti-Semitism and the pan-German dream of a new powerful German Reich. All this was heavily “seasoned” with the occult: members of society performed special rituals and magical 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 color symbolized the social ideals of the party, and the white symbolized the nationalist ones. The cross indicated victory and the 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 valued this “sign of superiority” so much that in 1935 they even issued a special decree “On the prohibition of Jews from hanging a flag with a swastika.” Apparently, the Nazis believed that “racially unclean” elements would desecrate their shrine with their touches.

During the existence of the Third Reich, the swastika was used everywhere: on banknotes, dishes, and souvenirs. During any celebrations, the streets of German cities were hung with flags and banners with this sign, and they were hung so densely that the eyes of passers-by began to ripple. However, sometimes the Nazi shrine was used for other purposes: a lady’s dress, the fabric of which was decorated with an ornament of thousands of small crosses, was considered fashionable.

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 by the Nazis of runes, which formed the basis of the writing of the ancient Germanic and Scandinavian peoples. As is known, since ancient times runic signs were not only letters, but also had magical meaning- used for fortune telling and as protective amulets. Historians believe that by introducing runes into everyday use, Hitler and his entourage tried not only to develop patriotism among the inhabitants of Germany, but also hoped to use runic signs as a magical weapon. True, the Fuhrer interpreted them selectively: he left only those meanings that corresponded to his worldview. Thus, the Zig rune, the double image of which became the “logo” of the SS, in the canonical interpretation meant the desire for light and enrichment spiritual world, as well as the flourishing of creative abilities. Naturally, the valiant SS men had no need for 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 aimed at nothing less than the most common attributes of the power of the Roman Caesars.

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

So make no mistake: the Nazis did not themselves come up with the symbols of the “thousand-year” Reich. All the signs and attributes they used had existed for a long time and were used for much more humane purposes.