The four-pointed swastika is a twenty-sided triangle with axial symmetry of the 4th order. The correct -ray swastika is described by a point group of symmetry (Schönflies symbolism). This group is generated by rotation of the th order and reflection in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation - the so-called “horizontal” plane in which the drawing lies. Due to the operation of reflecting the swastika achiral and doesn't have enantiomer(that is, the "double" obtained by reflection, which cannot be combined with the original figure by any rotation). As a result, in oriented space, right- and left-handed swastikas do not differ. Right- and left-handed swastikas differ only on the plane, where the design has purely rotational symmetry. When even, an inversion appears, where is a 2nd order rotation.
You can build a swastika for anyone; when you get a figure similar to the integral sign. For example, the symbol Borjgali(see below) is a swastika with . A swastika-like figure will generally be obtained if you take any region on a plane and multiply it by rotating it times about a vertical axis that does not lie in the vertical plane of symmetry of the region.
Origin and meaning
Illustration from ESBE.
The word "swastika" is a composite of two Sanskrit roots: सु, su, “good, good” and अस्ति, asti, “life, existence,” that is, “well-being” or “well-being.” There is another name for the swastika - “gammadion” (Greek. γαμμάδιον ), since the Greeks saw the swastika as a combination of the four letters “gamma” (Γ).
The swastika is a symbol of the Sun, good luck, happiness and creation. In Western European medieval literature, the name of the sun god of the ancient Prussians Swaikstixa(Svaixtix) is first found in Latin-language monuments from the beginning of the 17th century: "Sudauer Buchlein"(mid-15th century), "Episcoporum Prussiae Pomesaniensis atque Sambiensis Constitutiones Synodales" (1530), "De Sacrificiis et Idolatria Veterum Borvssorvm Livonum, aliarumque uicinarum gentium" (1563), "De Diis Samagitarum" (1615) .
The swastika is one of the ancient and archaic solar signs - an indicator of the visible movement of the Sun around the Earth and the division of the year into four parts - four seasons. The sign records two solstices: summer and winter - and the annual movement of the Sun.
Nevertheless, the swastika is considered not only as a solar symbol, but also as a symbol of the fertility of the earth. Has the idea of four cardinal directions, centered around an axis. The swastika also implies the idea of moving in two directions: clockwise and counterclockwise. Like “Yin” and “Yang”, a dual sign: rotating clockwise symbolizes male energy, counterclockwise - female. In ancient Indian scriptures, a distinction is made between male and female swastikas, which depict two female as well as two male deities.
The Encyclopedia of Brockhaus F.A. and Efron I.A. writes about the meaning of the swastika as follows:
| This sign has been used since time immemorial by Brahminists and Buddhists of India, China and Japan in ornaments and writing, expressing greetings and wishes for well-being. From the East the swastika moved to the West; Her images are found on some of the ancient Greek and Sicilian coins, as well as in the painting of ancient Christian catacombs, on medieval bronze tombstones, on priestly vestments of the 12th - 14th centuries. Having adopted this symbol in the first of the above forms, called the “gammed cross” ( crux gammata), Christianity gave it a meaning similar to what it had in the East, that is, it expressed to them the sending of grace and salvation. |
The swastika can be “correct” or “reverse”. Accordingly, a swastika in the opposite direction symbolizes darkness and destruction. In ancient times, both swastikas were used simultaneously. This has a deep meaning: day follows night, light replaces darkness, new birth replaces death - and this is the natural order of things in the Universe. Therefore, in ancient times there were no “bad” and “good” swastikas - they were perceived in unity.
One of the oldest forms of the swastika is Asia Minor and is an ideogram of the four cardinal directions in the form of a figure with four cross-shaped curls. The swastika was understood as a symbol of the four main forces, the four cardinal directions, the elements, the seasons and the alchemical idea of the transformation of elements.
Use in religion
In many religions, the swastika is an important religious symbol.
Buddhism
Other religions
Widely used by Jains and followers of Vishnu. In Jainism, the four arms of the swastika represent the four levels of existence.
Use in history
The swastika is a sacred symbol and is found already in the Upper Paleolithic period. The symbol is found in the culture of many nations. Ukraine, Egypt, Iran, India, China, Transoxiana, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, the Mayan state in Central America - this is the incomplete geography of this symbol. The swastika is represented in oriental ornaments, on monumental buildings and on household utensils, on various amulets and Orthodox icons.
In the Ancient World
The swastika was found on clay vessels from Samarra (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-handed swastikas are found in the pre-Aryan culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus River basin) and ancient China around 2000 BC.
One of the oldest forms of the swastika is Asia Minor and is an ideogram of the four cardinal directions in the form of a figure with four cross-shaped curls. Back in the 7th century BC, images similar to the swastika were known in Asia Minor, consisting of four cross-shaped curls - the rounded ends are signs of cyclic movement. There are interesting coincidences in the image of Indian and Asia Minor swastikas (points between the branches of the swastika, jagged thickenings at the ends). Other early forms of the swastika - a square with four plant-like curves at the edges - are a sign of earth, also of Asia Minor origin.
A stele from the kingdom of Meroe, which existed in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD, was discovered in Northeast Africa. e. The fresco on the stele depicts a woman entering the afterlife; a swastika also appears on the clothes of the deceased. The rotating cross also decorates golden weights for scales that belonged to the inhabitants of Ashanta (Ghana), and clay utensils of the ancient Indians, and Persian carpets. The swastika is often found on the amulets of the Slavs, Germans, Pomors, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvashs and many other peoples. The swastika is found wherever there are traces of Buddhist culture.
In China, the swastika is used as a symbol of all the deities worshiped in the Lotus School, as well as in Tibet and Siam. In ancient Chinese manuscripts it included such concepts as “region” and “country”. Known in the form of a swastika are two curved mutually truncated fragments of a double helix, expressing the symbolism of the relationship between “Yin” and “Yang”. In maritime civilizations, the double helix motif was an expression of the relationship between opposites, a sign of the Upper and Lower Waters, and also signified the process of the formation of life. On one of the Buddhist swastikas, each blade of the cross ends with a triangle indicating the direction of movement and crowned with an arch of the flawed moon, in which the sun is placed, like in a boat. This sign represents the sign of the mystical arba, the creative quaternary, also called the hammer of Thor. A similar cross was found by Schliemann during the excavations of Troy.
The swastika was depicted in pre-Christian Roman mosaics and on coins of Cyprus and Crete. An ancient Cretan rounded swastika made from plant elements is known. The Maltese cross in the shape of a swastika made of four triangles converging in the center is of Phoenician origin. It was also known to the Etruscans. According to A. Ossendovsky, Genghis Khan wore on his right hand a ring with the image of a swastika, into which a ruby was set. Ossendowski saw this ring on the hand of the Mongol governor. Currently, this magical symbol is known mainly in India and Central and East Asia.
Swastika in India
Swastika in Russia (and on its territory)
Various types of swastika (3-rayed, 4-rayed, 8-rayed) are present on the ceramic ornament of the Andronovo archaeological culture (South Urals of the Bronze Age).
The rhombic-meander swastika ornament in the Kostenkovo and Mezin cultures (25-20 thousand years BC) was studied by V. A. Gorodtsov. There is no reliable data yet about where the swastika was first used, but the earliest image of it was not registered in Rus'.
The swastika was used in rituals and construction, in homespun production: in embroidery on clothes, on carpets. Household utensils were decorated with swastikas. She was also present on the icons. Embroidered on clothing, the swastika could have a certain protective meaning.
The swastika symbol was used as a personal sign and amulet symbol by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Images of the swastika are found on hand-drawn postcards of the Empress. One of the first such “signs” was placed by the empress after the signature “A.” on a Christmas card drawn by her, sent on December 5, 1917 from Tobolsk to her friend Yu. A. Den.
| I sent you at least 5 drawn cards, which you can always recognize by my signs (“swastika”), I always come up with new ones |
The swastika was depicted on some banknotes of the Provisional Government of 1917 and on some Sovznak printed with the “Kerenok” cliche, which were in circulation from 1918 to 1922. .
In November 1919, the commander of the South-Eastern Front of the Red Army, V.I. Shorin, issued a document that approved the distinctive sleeve insignia of Kalmyk formations using a swastika. The swastika in the order is denoted by the word “lungtn”, that is, the Buddhist “Lungta”, meaning “whirlwind”, “ vital energy» .
Also, the image of a swastika can be seen on some historical monuments in Chechnya, in particular at ancient crypts in the Itum-Kala region of Chechnya (the so-called “City of the Dead”). In the pre-Islamic period, the swastika was a symbol of the Sun God among the pagan Chechens (Dela-Malkh).
Swastikas and censorship in the USSR
In the territory of modern Israel, images of swastikas were discovered during excavations in the mosaics of ancient synagogues. Thus, the synagogue on the site of the ancient settlement of Ein Gedi in the Dead Sea region dates back to the beginning of the 2nd century, and the synagogue on the site of the modern kibbutz Maoz Chaim on the Golan Heights operated between the 4th and 11th centuries.
In North, Central and South America, the swastika appears in Mayan and Aztec art. In North America, the Navajo, Tennessee and Ohio tribes used the swastika symbol in ritual burials.
Thai greeting Swatdi! comes from the word svatdika(swastika).
The swastika as an emblem of Nazi organizations
Nevertheless, I was forced to reject all the countless projects sent to me from all over by young supporters of the movement, since all these projects boiled down to only one theme: taking old colors and drawing a hoe-shaped cross on this background in different variations. […] After a series of experiments and alterations, I myself compiled a completed project: the main background of the banner is red; there is a white circle inside, and in the center of this circle is a black hoe-shaped cross. After much rework, I finally found the necessary relationship between the size of the banner and the size of the white circle, and also finally settled on the size and shape of the cross.
In the mind of Hitler himself, it symbolized the “struggle for the triumph Aryan race" This choice combined the mystical occult meaning of the swastika, the idea of the swastika as an “Aryan” symbol (due to its prevalence in India), and the already established use of the swastika in the German far-right tradition: it was used by some Austrian anti-Semitic parties, and in March 1920 During the Kapp Putsch, it was depicted on the helmets of the Erhardt brigade that entered Berlin (there may have been Baltic influence here, since many soldiers of the Volunteer Corps encountered swastikas in Latvia and Finland). Already in the 20s, the swastika became increasingly associated with Nazism; after 1933, it finally began to be perceived as a Nazi symbol par excellence, as a result of which, for example, it was excluded from the emblem of the scout movement.
However, strictly speaking, the Nazi symbol was not just any swastika, but a four-pointed one, with the ends pointing to the right and rotated 45°. Moreover, it should be in a white circle, which in turn is depicted on a red rectangle. This very sign was on the state banner of National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945, as well as on the emblems of the civil and military services of this country (although, of course, other options were used for decorative purposes, including by the Nazis).
Actually, the Nazis used the term to designate the swastika, which served as their symbol. Hakenkreuz ("hakenkreuz", verbatim "hook cross", translation options also - "crooked" or "arachnid"), which is not a synonym for the word swastika (German. Swastika), also circulating in German. It can be said that "hakenkreuz"- the same national name for the swastika in German as "solstice" or "Kolovrat" in Russian or "hakaristi" in Finnish, and is usually used specifically to refer to the Nazi symbol. In the Russian translation, this word was translated as “hoe-shaped cross”.
On the poster of the Soviet graphic artist Moor “Everything is “G”” (1941), the swastika consists of 4 letters “G”, symbolizing the first letters of the surnames of the leaders of the Third Reich written in Russian - Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Goering.
Geographical objects in the form of a swastika
Forest swastika
Forest swastika - forest planting in the shape of a swastika. They are found both in open areas in the form of appropriate schematic planting of trees, and in forest areas. In the latter case, as a rule, a combination of coniferous (evergreen) and deciduous (deciduous) trees is used.
Until 2000, the forest swastika existed northwest of the settlement of Zernikow, in the Uckermark region, in the state of Brandenburg in northwestern Germany.
On a hillside near the village of Tash-Bashat, in Kyrgyzstan, on the border with the Himalayas is the forest swastika "Eki Narin" ( 41.447351 , 76.391641 41°26′50.46″ n. w. 76°23′29.9″ E. d. / 41.44735121 , 76.39164121 (G)).
Labyrinths and their images
Buildings in the shape of a swastika
Complex 320-325(English) Complex 320-325) - one of the buildings of the naval landing base in Coronado (eng. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado ), in San Diego Bay, California. The base is operated by the United States Navy and is a central training and operating base for Special Forces and Expeditionary Forces. Coordinates 32.6761, -117.1578.
The Complex building was constructed between 1967 and 1970. The original design consisted of two central buildings for the boiler plant and relaxation area and a threefold repetition of the L-shaped barracks building with a 90-degree angle to the central buildings. The completed building was shaped like a swastika when viewed from above.
Computer symbol swastika
The Unicode character table contains the Chinese characters 卐 (U+5350) and 卍 (U+534D), which are swastikas.
Swastika in culture
In the Spanish TV series "Black Lagoon" (Russian version of "Closed School"), the Nazi organization, developing in the depths of a secret laboratory under a boarding school, had a coat of arms in which the swastika was encrypted.
Gallery
- Swastika in European culture
Swastika in a Roman mosaic from the 2nd century AD.
see also
Notes
- R.V. Bagdasarov. Radio broadcast “Swastika: blessing or curse” on “Echo of Moscow”.
- Korablev L. L. Graphic magic of the Icelanders. - M.: “Veligor”, 2002. - P. 101
- http://www.swastika-info.com/images/amerika/usa/cocacola-swastika-fob.jpg
- Gorodtsov V. A. Archeology. Stone period. M.; Pg., 1923.
- Jelinek Jan. Large illustrated atlas of primitive man. Prague, 1985.
- Tarunin A. Past - Kolovrat in Russia.
- Bagdasarov, Roman; Dymarsky Vitaly, Zakharov Dmitry Swastika: blessing or curse. "The Price of Victory". "Echo of Moscow". Archived from the original on August 23, 2011. Retrieved April 7, 2010.
- Bagdasarov, Roman.. - M.: M., 2001. - P. 432.
- Sergey Fomin. Materials for the history of the Tsarina's Cross
- Letters from the Royal Family from captivity. Jordanville, 1974. P. 160; Dehn L. The Real Tsaritsa. London, 1922. R. 242.
- Right there. P. 190.
- Nikolaev R. Soviet "credit cards" with swastikas? . Bonistics website. - the article was also published in the newspaper “Miniature” 1992 No. 7, p. 11. Archived from the original source on August 23, 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
- Evgeny Zhirnov. Grant the right to wear a swastika to all Red Army soldiers // Vlast magazine. - 01.08.2000 - No. 30 (381)
- http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/victory/559590-echo/ Interview with historian and religious scholar Roman Bagdasarov
- http://lj.rossia.org/users/just_hoaxer/311555.html LYUNGTN
- Kuftin B. A. Material culture Russian Meshchera. Part 1. Women's clothing: shirt, poneva, sundress. - M.: 1926.
- W. Shearer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- quote from the book by R. Bagdasarov “The Mysticism of the Fiery Cross”, M., Veche, 2005
- Discussion of the terms Hakenkreuz and Swastika in the LiveJournal community “Linguaphiles” (in English)
- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"
- Kern Hermann. Labyrinths of the world / Transl. from English - St. Petersburg: ABC-classics, 2007. - 432 p.
- Azerbaijani Carpets (English)
- Li Hongzhi. Zhuan Falun Falun Dafa
Literature
In Russian
- Wilson Thomas. Swastika. The oldest known symbol, its movement from country to country, with observations about the movement of some crafts in prehistoric times / Translation from English: A. Yu. Moskvin // History of the swastika from ancient times to the present day. - Nizhny Novgorod: Publishing House "Books", 2008. - 528 p. - P. 3-354. - ISBN 978-5-94706-053-9.
(This is the first publication in Russian of the best fundamental work on the history of the swastika, written by the curator of the department of prehistoric anthropology of the US National Museum, Thomas Wilson, and first published in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution (Washington) in 1896). - Akunov V. The swastika is the oldest symbol of humanity (selection of publications)
- Bagdasarov R.V. Swastika: sacred symbol. Ethno-religious essays. - Ed. 2nd, corrected. - M.: White Alva, 2002. - 432 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-7619-0164-1
- Bagdasarov R.V. The mysticism of the fiery cross. Ed. 3rd, add. and corrected. - M.: Veche, 2005. - 400 p. - 5000 copies. - (Labyrinths of occult science). -
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 even 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 he 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 as a party symbol was given to Adolf Hitler by Comrade I.V. Stalin himself 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 and 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 the Big Dipper, and to the left of it you will see the constellation in the form of the Swastika. I don’t know if this is true, but now it is excluded from their atlases of the 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 leader white movement in exile, General Alexander Kutepov. In addition, Kutepov kept the icon found on the body former empress. Inside the icon there was a note that commemorated the Green Dragon society. Grigory Rasputin received strange telegrams signed “Green” from Sweden. The Green Society, related 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 visited him regularly. 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 Agartha.” 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, about a thousand bodies of death volunteers, people of Tibetan blood, were found among the corpses of the last defenders of Nazism.
In July 1918, immediately after the execution of the royal family, the White Army troops 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-handed, 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 south-easterly direction and reached through Mesopotamia and Central Asia to the Indus Valley, the swastika entered the cultures 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 that has a deep 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 was even an interpretation that the Swastika symbol must be understood as an abbreviation of four words starting with the Latin letter “L”: Light - Light, Sun; Love - Love; Life - Life; Luck - Fate, Luck, Happiness. This is already hers modern interpretation, without signs of pagan cult.
Here is a very old "fossil" example of a swastika.
The swastika currently appears on the Finnish presidential standard.
And it can be found on the map of modern America...
Disputes about the origin of the swastika have not subsided for many years. Its fragments have been found on almost all continents in the cultures of Hinduism, Lamaism, and Christianity. Today it is believed that this sign originates from the ancient religion of the Aryans - Indo-Europeans. Its first images on Aryan altars and burials, Harappan seals and weapons, and Samarian bowls date back to the 30th century BC. It was excavated in the Urals, the same age as the pyramids of Egypt, with a street layout in the form of a round swastika mandala with an altar in the center.
What did the swastika mean? This is an Aryan symbol of unity heavenly powers fire and wind with the altar - the place where these heavenly forces merge with earthly ones. Therefore, the altars of the Aryans were decorated with swastikas and were revered as saints, protected from evil. The name "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit term "suasti" - "prosperity under the Sun", and the swastika mandala - from the concept of "wheel", "disk", or "circle of eternity", divided into sectors. In China and Japan, swastika characters mean wishes for longevity under the Sun.
In the mid-20th century, the swastika became one of the main tools in the confrontation between civilizations. And this was reflected not only in the mass use of the symbol as a “marker” of certain forces, but also in the active esoteric and mystical technology of application. This aspect was dealt with by special communities of the 3rd Reich, primarily the Ahnenerbe. The swastika was used as a universal tool for contact and remote mental coding of individuals and groups, volitional projection onto a geographic region, the formation of events (of a given type of future), etc. Not all manipulations with the swastika produced the expected effect, but the degree of effectiveness and nature of use are not generally known information. This side of the 2nd World War still keeps its secrets.
In general, there are a great many swastikas.
But how did the swastika become the personification of fascism?
Created in 1921 according to the designs of Adolf Hitler, the party symbols and flag of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) later became state symbols 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.
At the same time, the Nazi salute “Sieg” was adopted. “Ziga” (“sieg” - victory) is a gesture of greeting the Sun: from the heart to the Sun with the dear right hand, the palm of the left hand lies with the inner side on the stomach, forming a zig rune. After 1933, the swastika finally began to be perceived as a Nazi symbol, as a result of which it was excluded from the emblem of the scout movement. Kipling removed the swastika from the covers of his books."In the modern world, as before, a special toolkit - graphic symbolism - is widely used to purposefully influence the feelings, thoughts and desires of people. The history of the use of symbols is as deep as the history of homo sapiens. And in this history, a special place is occupied by the idea of searching for someone a universal key, a magical sign, having mastered it, it becomes possible to control not only a person, but also entire nations. How realistic is this idea?
The answer is related to the answer to another question: what does the world we live in consist of? It has been asked by outstanding thinkers for thousands of years, and it remains relevant in the modern world. In the era of antiquity, the idea was popular that behind the diversity of objects and phenomena there were only a few fundamental principles - the elements: fire, water, earth, air, and the quintessence of these elements - ether. According to ancient teachings, all known objects and phenomena are formed from these substances, and the system-forming process is the interaction of the world of ideas and the world of elements. The world of ideas in in this case is like "grand software" for the Universe. This interpretation of the structure of the world allows for the materialization of ideas into certain monads through a special substance - the substance of pure information - capable of modifying any object in the material world. Maybe this is how the meaning of the mysterious “philosopher’s stone” should be understood.
In this case, we define information as one of the primary principles, a kind of element. What are the elements of the world of ideas reflected in the form of substance? How will the human consciousness perceive them? Apparently, in the form of symbols and signs. It is likely that a person’s internal mental space can be represented in the form of living symbols combined into texts. Having at their core the same nature - a single world of ideas in the Universe, people, regardless of race, era, linguistic culture, habitat, have the same primary symbolic structures in their mental structure. This point of view allows us to understand why, throughout the known history of human civilization, there are similar and even completely identical symbols used in almost all regions of the planet by a variety of peoples." (c)
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There is one graphic sign that has an ancient history and the deepest meaning, but which was very unlucky with 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 originated and separated from the image of the symbol of the cross in deep, 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”, “well-being” (the Thai greeting “Sawatdiya” comes from the Sanskrit “su” and “asti”). This ancient solar sign is one of the most archaic, and therefore one of the most effective, since it is imprinted in the deep memory of humanity. The swastika is an indicator of the apparent movement of the Sun around the Earth and the division of the year into 4 seasons. In addition, it includes the idea of the four cardinal directions.
This sign was associated with the cult of the Sun among many peoples and was found already in the Upper Paleolithic era and even more often in the Neolithic era, primarily in Asia. Already from the 7th - 6th centuries BC. e. it is included in Buddhist symbolism, where it means the secret doctrine of the Buddha.
Even before our era, the swastika was actively used in symbolism in India and Iran and found its way to China. This sign was also used in Central America among the Mayans, where it symbolized the cycle of the Sun. Around the time of the Bronze Age, the swastika came to Europe, where it became especially popular in Scandinavia. Here it 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 solar sign and symbol of well-being. And only when it came to Ancient Greece from Asia Minor, it was changed in such a way that its meaning also changed. By turning the swastika, which was foreign to them, counterclockwise, the Greeks turned it into a sign of evil and death (in their opinion).
Swastika in the symbolism of Russia and other countries
In the Middle Ages, the swastika was somehow forgotten and remembered closer to the beginning of the twentieth century. And not only in Germany, as one might assume. This may be surprising to some, but the swastika was used in official symbols in Russia. In April 1917, new banknotes were issued in denominations of 250 and 1000 rubles, 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 an integral part of the design of the sleeve insignia.
During the First World War, swastikas were painted on the fuselages of aircraft of the famous American Lafayette squadron. Its images were also on the P-12 Briefings, which were in service with the US Air Force from 1929 to 1941. Additionally, this symbol was featured on the insignia of the US Army's 45th Infantry Division 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 military and naval flags of the country.
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 happiness of the Finno-Ugric peoples, was adopted as a symbol of the Finnish Air Force back in 1918, that is, before it began to be used as a fascist sign. And although, under the terms of the peace treaty after the end of World War II, the Finns were supposed to abandon its use, this was not done. In addition, the explanation on the website of the Finnish Defense Forces emphasizes that, unlike the Nazi one, the Finnish swastika is strictly vertical.
IN modern India The swastika is ubiquitous.
Let us note that there is one country in the modern world where images of swastikas can be seen at almost every step. This is India. In it, this symbol has been used in Hinduism for more than one millennium and no government can ban it.
Fascist swastika
It is worth mentioning the common myth that the Nazis used an inverted swastika. Where he came from is completely unclear, since German swastika the most common one is in the direction of the Sun. Another thing is that they depicted it 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 so a rare event: Her image appears in ancient Greek culture, in pre-Christian Roman mosaics, medieval coats of arms and even in Rudyard Kipling's logo.
An inverted swastika in the Bon monastery.
As for the Nazi swastika, then official emblem It became Hitler's fascist party in 1923, on the eve of the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. Since September 1935, it has become the main state emblem of Hitler's 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 good and prosperity into a symbol of evil and inhumanity. It is not surprising that after 1945, all states, with the exception of Finland and Spain, where the swastika was in the symbolism until November 1975, refused to use this symbol as compromised by fascism.
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Swastika symbolism, being the oldest, is most often found in archaeological excavations. More often than other symbols, it was found in ancient mounds, on the ruins of ancient cities and settlements. In addition, swastika symbols were depicted on various details of architecture, weapons, clothing and household utensils among many peoples of the world. Swastika symbolism is found everywhere in ornamentation as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. The swastika was often printed by E. Phillips and other postcard makers in the United States and Great Britain in the 1900s and 1910s, calling it the “cross of happiness”, consisting of the “four Ls”: Light (light), Love (love), Life ( life) and Luck (good luck).
The Greek name for the swastika is “gammadion” (four letters “gamma”). In post-war Soviet legends, there was a widespread belief that the swastika consists of 4 letters “G”, symbolizing the first letters of the surnames of the leaders of the Third Reich - Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Goering (and this is taking into account that in the German language these surnames began with different letters - “ G" and "H").
Because “the consequences of a barbaric attitude towards the swastika turn out to be very disastrous for modern culture Russian peoples. It is a known fact that during the Second World War, workers of Kargopolsky local history museum A number of unique embroideries containing the ornamental swastika motif were destroyed for fear of being accused of Hitler propaganda. To this day, in most museums, works of art containing swastikas are not included in the main exhibition. Thus, through the fault of public and state institutions that support “swastikophobia,” a millennia-old cultural tradition is being suppressed.”
An interesting case related to this issue occurred in Germany in 2003. The Chairman of the German Falun Dafa Association (Falun Dafa is an ancient system of improving the soul and life based on improving morality) unexpectedly received a notice of criminal proceedings from the German district attorney, where he accused of displaying an "illegal" symbol on a website (the Falun logo contains the Buddha's swastika in its image).
The case turned out to be so unusual and interesting that its consideration lasted more than six months. The final verdict of the court stated that the Falun symbol is legal and acceptable in Germany, and also stated that the Falun symbol and the illegal symbol are completely different in appearance and have completely different meanings. Excerpt from the court's decision: “The Falun symbol represents peace and harmony in the mind, which is what the Falun Gong movement firmly stands for.
There are Falun Gong followers all over the world. Falun Gong is now brutally persecuted in its country of origin, China. So far, 35,000 people have been arrested, and several hundred of them have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 2 to 12 years without providing any evidence of prosecution.” The prosecutor did not want to accept such a court verdict and filed an appeal.
After a thorough investigation of the District Court's verdict, the Court of Appeal decided to affirm the original verdict and refuse further appeals. A similar case occurred in Moldova, where a similar case was considered since September 2008, and only on January 26, 2009, a court decision was made with a verdict to completely reject the prosecutor's request and recognize that the Falun Dafa Emblem has nothing to do with the Nazi swastika.
The swastika became popular in European culture in the 19th century, in the wake of the fashion of the Aryan theory. English astrologer Richard Morrison organized the Order of the Swastika in 1869. It is found on the pages of Rudyard Kipling's books. The swastika was also used by the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell. In 1915, the swastika, having been widespread in Latvian culture since ancient times, was depicted on the banners of battalions (then regiments) of Latvian riflemen of the Russian army. Occultists and theosophists also attached great importance to this sacred sign. According to the latter, “the swastika... is a symbol of energy in motion that creates the world, breaking holes in space, creating vortices, which are atoms that serve to create worlds.” The swastika was part of the personal emblem of H.P. Blavatsky and decorated almost all printed publications of theosophists.
Suffice it to say that in the Middle Ages the swastika was never opposed to the six-pointed star as a supposedly specific symbol of Judaism. In the miniature for Alfonso Sabaean's "Canticles of Saint Mary", a swastika and two six-pointed stars are depicted next to a Jewish moneylender. Before World War II, a swastika mosaic decorated a synagogue in Hartford (Connecticut).
“Rainbow Swastika” by Hannah Newman, a person who stands on the positions of Orthodox Judaism. In her book, she exposes the so-called “Aquarius conspiracy,” which, in her opinion, is directed against world Jewry. She believes the main enemy of Jewry is the New Age movement, behind which are the mysterious occult forces of the East. For us, its conclusions are valuable because they confirm our ideas about war, confrontation, two forces - force present era, controlled by the Old Tower, the Black Lodge, and relying on the affirmation of material reality, and the power of the “dynamis”, the New Aeon, the Green Dragon or Ray, the White Lodge, striving to overcome this reality. It is very significant that according to Hannah Newman, Russia is under the control of a conservative Jewish-Christian alliance, preventing the destructive plans of the White Lodge. This explains the wars of the 20th century against Russia, as well as its inevitable “erosion” that we can see in our time.
“The book is called “The Rainbow Swastika”, its author is Hannah Newman. The first edition of the book appeared in March 1997 - the text was posted on the website of the University of Colorado by activists of the Jewish Student Union. Two years later, it was removed from the University of Colorado website without explanation. The full English text of the 2nd edition (2001) can be downloaded from the above address.
Written from the racist perspective of Orthodox Judaism, the book is quite detailed analysis philosophy and program of the NEW AGE movement, which the author identifies with the Illuminati and the forces behind the New World Order. In her opinion, Kabbalah is a foreign body in the doctrine of Judaism, a teaching closer to Tibetan BUDDHISM, destroying Judaism from within.
The tenets of the New Age are most clearly set out in the writings of the theorists of the Theosophical Society, founded by Helena Blavatsky (Khan) in 1875. The author traces the following ideological continuity: Helena Blavatsky - Alice Bailey - Benjamin Creme. Blavatsky herself claimed that her works were merely a recording of some esoteric teaching “under the dictation of the Tibetan Masters” named Morya and Koot Hoomi. Another Tibetan Master, Djwahl Kuhl, became Alice Bailey's guru. Almost all international organizations and structures are ideologically affiliated with the New Age, starting with the UN and UNESCO and ending with such as Greenpeace, Scientology, the World Council of Churches, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, the Bilderbergers, the Order of Skull and Bones, etc.
The religious and philosophical basis of NA consists of Gnosticism, Kabbalah, Buddhism, the doctrine of reincarnation and racial karma, with the addition of a hodgepodge of almost all known pagan cults. The main blow of the movement is directed against monotheistic religions. Its goal is the establishment of the satanic cult of Maitreya/Lucifer, the worship of “Mother-Goddess Earth” (Mother Earth, capital “E” - hence Enron, Einstein, the recently activated Etna, etc.), reducing the planet’s population to 1 billion people and the transfer of civilization from a materialistic to a spiritual and mystical path of development. The author calls the New Age movement the “Aquarian Conspiracy,” after the title of a 1980 book by Marilyn Ferguson. The final goal is even more incredible, I will talk about it below.
The more down-to-earth and concrete guidelines of the Aquarian Conspiracy (since 1975 it has become OPEN) are the following four main goals:
Overcoming the PROBLEM OF TERRITORIAL POSSESSIONS, that is, the elimination of sovereign national state entities.
Resolving the PROBLEM OF SEX or changing the motivation of sexual relationships - their only goal should be “the production of physical bodies for the reincarnation of souls.”
Rethinking and reducing the psychological VALUE OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE to carry out a GLOBAL CLEANING on the planet, eliminating all opponents of the New Age and carrying out a WORLD INITIATION into the cult of Lucifer.
The Final Solution to the Problem of the Jews and Judaism.
There are 5 World Control Centers in establishing the NEW WORLD ORDER: London, New York, Geneva, Tokyo and Darjeeling (India). Benjamin Krem called Mikhail GORbachev one of the “disciples of Maitreya.” (Hitler was also a New Ager; there is even a whole chapter dedicated to the occult connections of the Nazis. There is nothing new in it, however.)
Inevitable, according to the author, a world collision must occur both on the material and on the spiritual-mystical level due to the intensification of the confrontation between the WHITE AND BLACK LODIES in the era of the change from the ERA OF PISCES (0-2000) to the ERA OF AQUARIUS (2000-4000). Representatives of the Black Lodge (Black Lodge, Dark Forces) are supporters of the currently dominant concept of the material world and use the Jews as their tool for programming the consciousness of the masses in line with the dominant ILLUSION of physical reality. The White Lodge is a conductor of spirituality in the world and is under the leadership of a HIERARCHY of certain non-material ASCENDED MASTERS (Ascended Masters). Cosmology, mythology, eschatology and the NEW AGE program are detailed in the works of Blavatsky and Bailey. New Agers have their own TRINITY or LOGOS (apparently, this is the same LOGOS that was at the beginning of everything, according to the Gospel of John): Sanat Kumara (god-demiurge, creator of man), Maitreya-Christ (Messiah) and Lucifer (Satan, carrier light and reason). They form the Planetary Logos and embody the THREE MAIN COSMIC ENERGIES. A whole Hierarchy of masters, sages and teachers of humanity is built under them.
The outbreak of the Third World War is, according to the author, a manifestation on the material level of the clash of the White and Black Lodges (in other words, the clash of Gnostic Satanists with Jewish materialists). Russia is mentioned only once in the book, in the context of a quote from Alice Bailey, who considered it a completely controlled springboard of the BLACK LIE.
Plan.
The Tibetan teacher Alice Bailey (Jval Kul - DK) confirmed the prediction voiced at one time by Helena Blavatsky that the OPEN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN will begin no earlier than the “end of the 20th century.” It must be preceded by INFILTRATION of all layers of society by “agents of change”, the widespread spread of mystical practices, including those associated with the use of drugs to introduce adherents into a “stable state of altered consciousness.” What exactly should such a perversion of consciousness consist of? In the activation of intuition and REJECTION OF LOGICAL THINKING, and ultimately in the complete REJECTION OF OWN “I”, in dissolution in the COLLECTIVE EGREGOR. First, through the widespread cultivation of collective thinking (GROUP THINKING) and universal synchronization of consciousness, the construction of ANTAHKARANA is achieved - the mystical horizontal BRIDGE OF THE RAINBOW (“The Rainbow Bridge”). Upon completion of the construction of the horizontal BRIDGE, when the ALL-PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS is finally created, an attempt must be made to establish spiritual contact with the non-material representatives of the HIERARCHY (White Lodge), i.e., the construction of the VERTICAL ANTAHKARANA. The successful establishment of such contact by HUMANITY will be a prerequisite for its entry into a fundamentally new stage of development. According to one of the main ideologists of NEW AGE, candidate for US Vice President from the Democratic Party (1984) BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, the construction of the VERTICAL RAINBOW BRIDGE will be an irreversible change in the history of our civilization. According to other sources, the BRIDGE can only be established for a short period of time and will inevitably fall apart again.
Thus, the current process of GLOBALIZATION is nothing more than an attempt to build a mystical planetary RAINBOW BRIDGE to establish contact with the higher spiritual substances surrounding us. Karl Marx is resting!
All three substances of the LOGOS must sequentially materialize on Earth for the purpose of REACTIVATION OF THE PLAN: first Lucifer, then Maitreya and finally Sanat Kumara. Especially for the Jews, a scenario has already been developed for THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, which will have to finally dismantle JUDAISM and, possibly, organize the HOLOCAUST - the large-scale liquidation of the Jews as carriers of vicious racial karma.
The author gives numerous examples of the total infiltration of even Orthodox Jewish circles by New Agers. The scale of the AQUARIUS CONSPIRACY is staggering; many “non-religious Jews” take an active part in it, so that some researchers consider the NEW AGE movement to be one of the creations of Judaism. However, Hannah Newman is convinced that it is JUDAISM (together with Christianity and Islam) that will become its main victim. The main allies of Orthodox Jews in the fight against the Conspiracy are, in her opinion, Christian Evangelists, due to their ideological closeness to the Jews and the BIBLICAL FANATISM shared by both groups. "
“Ur-Ki” is the name of the oldest capital of the world; capitals of Russian, Jewish, Ukrainian, German, French, Italian, English, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Iranian, Iraqi, Indian, Chinese, Tibetan, Egyptian, Libyan, Spanish, American and almost all other peoples of the world .
“Ur-Ki” is the ancient name of Kyiv, which was initially located just down the Dnieper (in the Cherkassy region, where the ruins of the largest and most ancient city world), and now it is the capital of Ukraine, the sacred city of the first ancestors - Kyiv.
The name of the ancient capital of the world “Ur-Ki” consists of ancient Russian words - the word “Ur” and the word “Ki”. “Ur” is the name of the ancient Russian God the Son, his parents and creators of all things are considered to be God the Father (Almighty) and the Mother Goddess (Agni), who in the first element of fire (Sva) gave birth from the Unmanifested world of images to the Manifested world - that is, who gave birth God the Son of Ur, who is the entire visible Universe. The sacred texts of the Russian Religion say that Ur in its evolution reached the highest form - man. Man is Ur, that is, in form and content, man is the entire known and unknown Universe. Man is the entire immortal Universe and he is outside of time and space, he is infinite and eternal. Ur and Man are Light, One and Eternal. And as it is written in the Kyiv Rig Veda: “We came from the Light and will go into the Light...” This means that the ancient Rus believed that man would continue his evolution and “radiant humanity” would arise, where man would finally develop into the God-man Ur and in form will represent itself as thinking intelligent matter in the form of an immortal shining Light, capable of creating any form.
I have to stop there. Old Russian interpretation of the word “Ur” by what was briefly reported above. I will add that in ancient times (and in the East to this day, which not everyone knows) our self-name was “Urus” or often even simpler “Ury”. Hence the words: “culture” (cult of Ur); “ancestors” (ancestors); Ural (Ural); Uristan (stan of Ur) and thousands of other words in almost all languages of the world. The most ancient symbols of Ur have survived to this day: the battle cry of Russian warriors “Hurray!” and a rotating fiery swastika, elements of which are depicted in the surviving temples of Sophia - the Holy Old Russian Wisdom (in Kyiv, Novgorod, Baghdad, Jerusalem and thousands of other Russian cities on all continents of the world).
The word "Ki" in Old Russian means "land = territory", so the name of ancient Kyiv - "Ur-Ki" in modern Russian means "Divine Land of the First Ancestors". Thus, the origin of the modern word “Kyiv” is not at all from the legendary Prince Kiy, as the enemies of the Russian people deceive, and therefore until the Middle Ages (when the entire world history was falsified in favor of our enemies with the destruction of everything ancient Russian and the fabrication of false ancient “books” ", "monuments", etc.) in all ancient books in all languages, Kyiv was most often called the "Mother City". The expressions “Mother Earth” and “Kyiv Mother” have still survived to this day, contrary to the wishes of our enemies. And the expression: “Kyiv is the Mother of Russian cities!” every schoolchild in the world knows. I draw your attention to “Mother of Russian cities!” Otherwise, the enemies of the Russian people have falsified historical science so much that even those of them who consider themselves “historians” write books about the mysterious “ancestral homeland of the Aryans”, the mysterious “Indo-European proto-civilization”, “northern Hyperborea”, the incomprehensible “Tripoli culture”, unknown where did “Great Mongolia” come from (Great Tartary = Great Mogolia = Great Russia, etc.) and in all these “scientific works” there is no Kyiv, which means there is no MOTHER and no GOD.
As a result of Russian military campaigns in Europe, China, India, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Egypt, etc., there was a significant influence of our ancient culture on these peoples. In the art of many nations, the ancient Russian “animal style”, “cosmogonic cross”, “magic swastika”, the image of the “secret wheel of history”, horse heads in “vortex cosmic movement” appeared; image of a sword; an image of a horseman piercing a dragon with a spear, where the dragon symbolizes world evil; image of the “Mother Goddess”, where Agni was meant - “goddess of the Fiery Cosmos”; an image of a deer, symbolizing the spiritual beauty of nature, etc. It is not for nothing that modern archaeological scientists find an image of a Russian Ruthenian deer and Russian iron swords all over the world - from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic and from Egypt and India to the Arctic.
Since ancient times, swastika symbolism has been the main and dominant symbol among almost all peoples on the territory of Eurasia: Slavs, Germans, Mari, Pomors, Skalvi, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Indians, Icelanders, Scots and many others.
In many ancient Beliefs and religions, the Swastika is the most important and brightest cult symbol. Thus, in ancient Indian philosophy and Buddhism, the Swastika is a symbol of the eternal cycle of the universe, a symbol of the Buddha’s Law, to which all things are subject. (Dictionary “Buddhism”, M., “Republic”, 1992); in Tibetan Lamaism - a protective symbol, a symbol of happiness and a talisman.
In India and Tibet, the Swastika is depicted everywhere: on the walls and gates of temples, on residential buildings, as well as on the fabrics in which all sacred texts and tablets are wrapped. Very often, sacred texts from the Book of the Dead, which are written on funeral covers, are framed with swastika ornaments before cremation.
Swastika, which is the oldest figurative meaning it carries within itself what it has meant for many millennia and what it means now for the Slavs and Aryans and the many peoples inhabiting our Earth. In these media, alien to the Slavs, the Swastika is called either a German cross or a fascist sign and reduces its image and meaning only to Adolf Hitler, Germany 1933-45, to fascism (National Socialism) and the Second World War. Modern “journalists”, “is-Toriki” and guardians of “universal human values” seem to have forgotten that the Swastika is the oldest Russian symbol, that in past times, representatives of the highest authorities, in order to enlist the support of the people, always made the Swastika state symbols and placed her image on the money.
Nowadays, few people know that the matrices of the 250 ruble banknote, with the image of the Swastika symbol - Kolovrat against the background of a double-headed eagle, were made according to a special order and sketches of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. The Provisional Government used these matrices to issue banknotes in denominations of 250, and later 1000 rubles. Beginning in 1918, the Bolsheviks introduced new banknotes in denominations of 5,000 and 10,000 rubles, on which three Swastika-Kolovrat are depicted: two smaller Kolovrat in the side ligatures are intertwined with large numbers 5,000, 10,000, and a large Kolovrat is placed in the middle. But, unlike 1000 rubles of the Provisional Government, which had an image on the reverse side The State Duma, the Bolsheviks placed a double-headed eagle on banknotes. Money with the Swastika-Kolovrat was printed by the Bolsheviks and was in use until 1923, and only after the appearance of USSR banknotes were they taken out of circulation.
The authorities of Soviet Russia, in order to gain support in Siberia, created sleeve patches for the soldiers of the Red Army of the South-Eastern Front in 1918, they depicted a Swastika with the abbreviation R.S.F.S.R. inside. But the Russian Government of A.V. Kolchak did the same, calling under the banner of the Siberian Volunteer Corps; Russian emigrants in Harbin and Paris, and then the National Socialists in Germany.
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). In Mein Kampf, Hitler describes in detail how this symbol was chosen. He personally determined the final form of the swastika and developed a version of the banner, which became the model for all subsequent party flags. Hitler believed that the new flag should have the same effectiveness as a political poster. The Fuhrer also writes about colors for the party flag, which were considered, but were rejected. White “was not a color that captivates the masses,” but was most suitable “for virtuous old maids and for all kinds of Lenten unions.” Black was also rejected as it was far from eye-catching. The combination of blue and white colors was excluded because they were the official colors of Bavaria. The white and black combination was also unacceptable. There was no question of a black-red-gold banner, since it was used by the Weimar Republic. Black, white and red were inappropriate in their old combination due to the fact that they "represented the old Reich, which died as a result of its own weaknesses and mistakes." Nevertheless, Hitler chose these three colors because, in his opinion, they were better than all the others (“this is the most powerful accord of colors that is possible”). Not any swastika fits the definition of “Nazi” symbols, but only a four-pointed one, standing on an edge at 45°, with the ends directed to the right. This very sign was on the state banner of National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945, as well as on the emblems of civil and military services. Few people now know that in Germany the National Socialists did not use the Swastika, but a symbol similar to it in design - Hakenkreuz, which has a completely different figurative meaning - changing the world around us and a person’s worldview.
By the way, in the minds of the soldiers who saw crosses on Wehrmacht tanks during World War II, it was these Wehrmacht crosses that were fascist crosses and Nazi symbols.
For many millennia, different designs of swastika symbols had a powerful influence on people’s way of life, on their psyche (Soul) and subconscious, uniting representatives of various tribes for some bright purpose; gave a powerful surge of light divine forces, revealing the internal reserves in people for comprehensive creation for the benefit of their Clans, in the name of justice, prosperity and well-being of their Fatherland.
At first, only the clergy of various Tribal cults, creeds and religions used this, then representatives of the highest state authorities began to use swastika symbols - princes, kings, etc., and after them all kinds of occultists and political figures turned to the Swastika.
After the Bolsheviks completely captured all levels of power, the need for support of the Soviet regime by the Russian people disappeared, because it would be easier to confiscate the values created by the same Russian people. Therefore, in 1923, the Bolsheviks abandoned the Swastika, leaving only five-pointed star, Hammer and sickle.
In February 1925, the Kuna Indians expelled the Panamanian gendarmes from their territory, announcing the creation of the independent Republic of Tula, on the banner of which was. "Tula" is translated as "people", the self-name of the tribe, and the swastika is their ancient symbol. In 1942, the flag was slightly changed so as not to evoke associations with Germany: a “nose ring” was put on the swastika, “because everyone knows that Germans do not wear nose rings.” Subsequently, the Kuna-Tula swastika returned to its original version and is still a symbol of the independence of the republic.
Until 1933 (the year the Nazis came to power), the swastika was used as a personal coat of arms by the writer Rudyard Kipling. For him, she embodied Strength, Beauty, Originality and Illumination. Thanks to Paul Klee, the swastika became the emblem of the avant-garde artistic and architectural association Bauhaus.
In 1995, an incident occurred in Glendale, California, when a small group of anti-fascist fanatics attempted to force city officials to replace 930 (!) light poles installed between 1924 and 1926. Reason: the cast iron pedestals are surrounded by an ornament of 17 swastikas. The local Historical Society had to prove with documents in hand that the poles purchased at one time from the Union Metal Company of Canton (Ohio) had nothing to do with the Nazis, and therefore could not offend anyone’s feelings. The swastika design was based both on classical art and on the indigenous traditions of the Navajo Indians, for whom the swastika had long served as an auspicious sign. In addition to Glendale, similar poles were installed in other places in the county in the 1920s.
The main symbol of fascism is certainly the fascia (from the Latin fascis, a bunch), which Benito Mussolini borrowed from Ancient Rome. The fasces were rods tied with a leather belt, with a lictor's hatchet inserted inside. Such bundles were carried by lictors (servants under the highest magistrates and some priests) in front of the government official they accompanied. The rods symbolized the right of punishment, the ax of execution. Inside Rome, the ax was removed, since here the people were the highest authority for death sentences. When Mussolini founded his Italian Nationalist Movement in March 1919, his banner was the tricolor with the lictor's hatchet, symbolizing the unity of war veterans. The organization was called “Fashi di Combattimento” and served as the basis for the creation of the fascist party in 1922. It should be remembered that fasces are a common decorative element of the classicism style, in which many buildings of the 18th century were built. early XIX centuries (including in St. Petersburg and Moscow), therefore their use in the context of this style is not “fascist”. In addition, fasces with hatchets and a Phrygian cap became a symbol of the Great french revolution 1789.
In number Nazi symbols You can include specific emblems of the SS, Gestapo and other organizations operating under the auspices of the Third Reich. But the elements that make up these emblems (runes, oak leaves, wreaths, etc.) should not be prohibited in themselves.
A sad case of “swastikophobia” is the regular (since 1995) cutting down of larch trees in the public sector forest near Zernikov (60 miles north of Berlin). Planted in 1938 local entrepreneur, every autumn the larches formed a yellow swastika of needles among the evergreen pines. The swastika of 57 larches with an area of 360 m^2 could only be seen from the air. After the reunification of Germany, the question of felling arose in 1992, and the first trees were destroyed in 1995. By 2000, 25 of the 57 larches had been cut down, according to the Associated Press and Reuters, but authorities and the public are concerned that the symbol may still be visible. This is indeed a serious matter: young shoots are creeping out from the remaining roots. Pity here is caused, first of all, by people whose hatred has reached the brink of psychosis.
The Sanskrit exclamation “svasti!” translated, in particular, as “good!” and to this day sounds in the rituals of Hinduism, framing the pronunciation of the sacred syllable AUM (“AUM Tackle!”). Analyzing the word “swastika”, Gustav Dumoutier divided it into three syllables: su-auti-ka. ou root meaning “good”, “good”, superlative degree or suridas, "prosperity." Auti is the third person singular form in the present indicative mood of the verb as “to be” (Latin sum). Ka is a substantive suffix.
The Sanskrit name suastika, wrote Max Müller to Heinrich Schliemann, is close to the Greek “perhaps”, “possible”, “allowed”. There is an Anglo-Saxon name for the swastika sign, Fylfot, which R.F. Greg derived from fower fot, four-footed, i.e. "four-" or "many-legged". The word Fylfot itself is of Scandinavian origin and consists of Old Norse fiel, the equivalent of Anglo-Saxon fela, German viel (“many”) and fotr, foot (“foot”), i.e. "multipede" figure. However, in the scientific literature, both Fylfot and the above-mentioned “tetraskelis” with a gammatic cross, and the “hammer of Thor” (Mjollnir), erroneously identified with the swastika, were gradually replaced by the Sanskrit name.
According to M. Muller, the right-handed gamma cross (suastika) is a sign of light, life, holiness and prosperity, which corresponds in nature to the spring, waxing sun. The left-handed sign, suavastika, on the contrary, expresses darkness, doom, evil and destruction; it corresponds to the waning, autumn luminary. We find a similar line of reasoning in the Indologist Charles Beardwood. Suastika - daytime sun, active state, day, summer, light, life and glory; this set of concepts is expressed by the Sanskrit pradakshina, manifested through the masculine principle, protected by the god Ganesha. Suavastika is also the sun, but underground or nocturnal, passive, winter, darkness, death and obscurity; it corresponds to the Sanskrit prasavya, the feminine principle and the goddess Kali. In the annual solar cycle, the left-sided swastika is a symbol of the summer solstice, from which daylight begins to decrease, and the right-sided winter solstice, from which the day gains strength. The main traditions of humanity (Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, etc.) contain both right- and left-sided swastikas, which are assessed not on a “good-evil” scale, but as two sides of a single process. Thus, “destruction” is not “evil” in the dualistic sense for Eastern metaphysics, but only the other side of creation, etc.
In ancient times, when our Ancestors used the ‘Aryan Runes, the word Swastika was translated as Who Came from Heaven. Since Rune - SVA meant Heaven (hence Svarog - Heavenly God), - S - Rune of direction; Runes - TIKA - movement, coming, flow, running. Our children and grandchildren still pronounce the word tick, i.e. run. In addition, the figurative form - TIKA is still found in everyday words Arctic, Antarctic, mysticism, homiletics, politics, etc.
I’m closer to the traditional version of the Aryan decoding of the word.
Su asti ka: su asti is a greeting, a wish for good luck, prosperity, ka is a prefix denoting a particularly emotional attitude.