Swastika in a circle meaning and image. "unknown swastika

Mikhail Zadornov reflects on Trekhlebov’s arrest in his blog.

Mikhail Zadornov

Remember how I once said that instead of taking the best from the Soviet past and our present, we did the opposite? The people who accuse him combine today's illiteracy, lack of education and the Soviet inquisitorial thinking of party workers.

Do they still not know what a swastika means? Hitler's Germany became Nazi not because it adopted the swastika - the ancient sign of the Sun, but because it declared itself the superior race! Tell me, if Hitler at that time had taken a double-headed eagle for Germany and for his party - too ancient symbol, – today’s managers would classify him as a Nazi symbol? You never know who among the power-hungry maniacs who dreamed of conquering the world used various ancient methods for their success and persuasion of the masses. magic symbols?

Of course, Trekhlebov told his students about the meaning of the swastika. After all, he taught ancient knowledge. Not only he, but all scientists in the world know about the swastika. Only our tourists, when they get to Buddhist monasteries in India, exclaim in horror: “What kind of disgusting thing is this?”, seeing numerous swastikas on the walls or pillars of the monastery.

The swastika is perhaps one of the few symbols as ancient as humanity.

The swastika has been found among many peoples since time immemorial.

This is the Sun!

At first the Sun was drawn as a circle. Then they began to draw a cross closed in a circle. This meant that people began to divide space into four parts of the world. They noticed four main days in the year - two solstices and two equinoxes. Days on which there is a constant ratio between day and night at any point on Earth: the most short night, the shortest day and two days when day is equal to night. And then one of the very ancient “Kulibins” thought of giving this cross rotation, thereby indicating eternal movement and development, depending on the sun. How can you understand that a drawn cross is spinning? Tie ribbons to the ends of the cross and show in which direction the inertial force acts! Or show the rays emanating from the center circle as curved. The image of a rotating cross-sun is found by archaeologists in various parts of the world. The dating of many of them cannot be accurately determined. Only one thing is clear - some of them are from antediluvian times!

Those who consider the swastika fascist and Nazi symbol, actually take the side... Hitler!

Yes, the word "swastika" is unpleasant to the ear Soviet man. The Patriotic War brought too much trouble. And the swastika remained a symbol of this misfortune in the memory on a subconscious level. But not consciously!

However, many people forget that we also had the swastika on banknotes from 1918 to 1922, and even on the sleeve patches of Red Army soldiers.

The swastika is found in Russian northern folk patterns constantly. On towels. On a spinning wheel. On vases. In the patterns of the platbands... It’s impossible to list everything!

Go to the North of Russia today, idiot investigators, and arrest everyone who you find similar towels!

Moreover, I understand that those “edited” by the church will now attack me, but the early icons also often depicted a swastika. And there are many examples of this! And there's nothing wrong with that.

Yes, the swastika can be considered a pagan sign. But in Rus', until a certain time, there was officially the so-called two-belief. This meant that people worshiped the cross as a symbol of the Sun and the crucifixion of Christ at the same time. Because for them Christ was also the embodiment of the Sun on earth! Go to Sergiev Posad and look at the crosses on the domes - in the center of the crosses are the suns! I asked more than one priest, where are the suns on the crosses from? Nobody really answered. But they probably know that this tradition - depicting crosses with the sun - has existed since the time of Sergius of Radonezh.

Can you imagine how illiterate our authorities are?!

I repeat once again that the word “swastika” is not the most pleasant for Russian ears. The Slavs called the sun sign Kolovrat. Solstice. Anti-Slavists claim that there was no such word. Right. It was not in the writings of the monastic clergy. But the people had it and still have it. It is the people who preserve the living language, but the scientists do not know the living language and often deaden it.

There were two Kolovrat in our Slavic-Russian tradition. One cross rotated along the sun, the other against the sun.

One could talk endlessly about the swastika. Yes, the word is disgusting even for me, who grew up immediately after the war, so I’ll decipher what it means.

First of all, I repeat that the word “swastika” is not Slavic origin. Indian, Sanskrit. But Sanskrit is a language invented by the Aryan Brahmins to write down the Vedas in a new place and preserve knowledge. In addition to Sanskrit, Slavic languages ​​remained the direct carriers of the Aryan language, therefore almost all Sanskrit words, if you listen carefully to them, coincide with Russian ones.

So you shouldn’t be surprised that the word “swastika” carries a luminous meaning in both Russian and Sanskrit.

"Sva" is light. In the Vedic language they pronounced it shorter - “su”. And they translated it as “God’s grace.” And what if not light is God's grace. After all, from the word “light” - “holy”. The word “asti” is “is” in relation to the third person singular: he is asti, she is asti. And “ka” in many languages ​​of the world, including the one that scientists call the hypocritical, politically correct “Indo-European,” meant “soul.” “Sv/u-asti-ka” – “he/she is the light of the soul”!

The Slavic “kolovrat” means the same thing – “rotating sun”. This has been written about more than once; “kolo” was the name given to the sun in ancient times. And then, when the letter “si” began to be pronounced like “k” (and vice versa) southern peoples(confused due to illiteracy), then “colo” turned into “solo”.

The swastika, or Kolovrat, is the sacred sign of the Aryans. The Aryans, long before the formation of the slave-owning civilizations known to us, populated the entire Eurasian continent. Naturally, they worshiped the Sun. The natural science knowledge of the Aryans is practically forgotten. Symbols live longer. Secret knowledge, as a rule, is not kept by scientists. Scientists cling to everything that appears. And people keep knowledge in oral tradition. Ask a Belarusian peasant or any resident of the Kola Peninsula what a swastika means. Unlike many scientists, he will tell you.

By the way, the swastika-Kolovrat was depicted on towels in a very interesting way. If you look at the towel from one side, the sun rotates clockwise, and if from the other, counterclockwise! Witty, isn't it? Symbol of eternity: darkness gives way to light, light gives way to darkness...

The Inquisition returns - they arrest you for believing in the sun!

Is it really Trekhlebov’s fault that Hitler merged the swastika with maddened Germany?! And he desecrated her! Moreover, he only took the one sun sign, which rotates counterclockwise. That is only a sign of darkness!

And the ancient Greeks have the same solar symbol. But for them it was combined in a pattern that was called the “river of life.”

Among our Slavic ancestors, by the pattern in which the swastika was “woven” on the bride’s clothing, one could tell what kind of bride she was. Today, by looking at Scottish skirts, you can determine which surname a noble Scot belongs to. This custom also comes from pagan times. But in Scotland, no one thinks of arresting a man walking down the street in a skirt. Or all the tailors who sew these skirts!

I watched some videos of Trekhlebov’s performances on YouTube. In one of them, he explained to his students that love, according to the Russian alphabet, means “people know God”!

And what is criminal about this? Both love and God in one teaching, in one word.

By the way, it’s very interesting, the investigators who issued a warrant for his arrest, or the prosecutors, I don’t know, are they Russian people? I mean, their native language is Russian? I recognize nationality by the language in which a person thinks, naturally not by blood and not by the shape of the skull, as was done in Hitler's Germany.

The Slavs are direct descendants of the Aryans! Sanskrit scholars who came to Russia from India more than once emphasized that there are no more similar languages ​​in the world than Sanskrit and Russian. The Russian language is great because it has absorbed many Slavic dialects, dialects, pronunciations - it seems to have summed up all the Slavic languages. If two Slavic peoples gather at some conference and do not understand each other in their languages, they switch to Russian. I have seen a similar situation more than once in Riga, when Lithuanians were forced to speak Russian with Latvians. Although Lithuanian and Latvian are very similar to each other. But the common denominator is still Russian. (Moreover, already at a time when Russian was considered the language of the invaders).

So, let's draw the line. Trekhlebov spread knowledge about light, about the sun, and he was arrested!

Just new option legends of Lucifer! After all, Lucifer too - from the word “light” - “ray”. True, he was presented to people as a fallen angel. So what do we have, Trekhlebov, a fallen angel?

However, I have another point of view. Maybe those who arrested him are not such idiots as they seem. Maybe they were just paid for it? And then it’s really bad. It's no secret that today they can be arrested either because they paid, or because of a call from above. A call from above is unlikely. Nobody up there is interested in Trekhlebov. For them, a fallen angel is one who quit in business, especially in oil or gas. For example, Yulia Tymoshenko or Yushchenko... and others like them.

However, I cannot leave the feeling that some kind of showdown between today’s Slavic communities, always arguing with each other, is involved in this matter. I’m not sure, I’m not saying...If this is so, come to your senses! Quarrel, swear, go against each other “wall to wall”, but do not betray the desire for Vedic knowledge. If some community that does not like Trekhlebov’s views ordered it, then this is a great sin. This is anti-Vedicism!

But if the authorities themselves did this, then I propose to arrest approximately half of the Russian residents in the north of Russia, in Buryatia, most of the population, to close the Buryat Buddhist datsans, which, by the way, were opened in the late 40s by decree... of Stalin! Joseph Vissarionovich allowed to depict a swastika in these datsans! And he should have hated her like no one else. But he was more literate than today’s authorities! The descendant of the ancient Ossetian-Aryans, apparently, knew the essence of this sign and understood that he himself solar symbol not to blame for the horror that Hitler's Germany unleashed.

Oh-oh-oh, I almost forgot... In the Ivolginsky datsan, where the holy sage Itigelov is located, the lamas gave me felt slippers with the image of a swastika! In my opinion, the time has come to arrest me. Moreover, along with slippers!

And now tell me, gentlemen who hold power, after all that has been said, will you still continue to believe in Hitler, and not in our worthy solar ancestors?

I sympathize with Trekhlebov, but maybe thanks to his arrest, people will finally clear up a lot of things for themselves. And everything will end sunny.

P.S. By the way, Soviet party leaders tried to instill to the Soviet people that the Hitler swastika was invented by Hitler himself and it meant four connected letters “G”: Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Goering.

P.P.S. Since my words do not inspire confidence among part of the population, because I do not have any titles, I suggest reading the article of a real scientist.

Doctor historical sciences, laureate of the international prize named after. Jawaharlal Nehru

Natalia GUSEVA

Swastika - child of millennia

Throughout the history of human civilization, many signs and symbols have accumulated. Are signs immortal? No, in their enormous mass they are lost, disappearing from people’s memory. But those that continue to live will probably not be lost in the future. Such eternal signs include, in particular, the sun, the cross and the swastika.

It would seem - what is common between a closed circle of the sun and a four-pointed cross? Why is the formula “sun and cross” so familiar to the ear? Yes, because these two signs are almost identical. Since ancient times, they have been brought together by such a simple fact as the similarity of the astronomical ideas of the ancient inhabitants different countries. In very distant times, an image of the sun appears with cross lines inside a circle. It is believed that in this way the person tried to express his attitude towards the four countries of the world, his understanding of the world order, and depict the main areas firmament in their relationship with the sun and its movement.

It is impossible to say who, where and when began to depict the crossed sun. At least until all the archaeological discoveries in the world are made and dated. The sun with a cross inside a circle appears before us in different parts of the earth. Gradually, the sign of the cross seems to be freed from the embrace of the solar ring and begins to live its own life. It is sometimes depicted next to solar rosettes and with circles inside its outline, but more and more often in the form of a straight, and sometimes oblique, cross.

And in the same deep, impenetrable antiquity, the cross still continued to bear certain symbols of its connection with the sun, its direct belonging to it. Apparently, it began with the desire of people to somehow depict the very fact of the movement of the sun. And the beginning of this was to give the solar circle curved rays. After all, the cross is static, motionless, and changes in its shape do not give it the energy of sharp rotation.

But how to show the movement of the star, its rotation? The answer was found - it is necessary to dismember the ring around the cross, leaving its segments only at four ends of the cross (or five, or seven, if the cross was thought of as spokes inside the rim of the wheel of the sun). This is how the SWASTIKA was born.

In this sense, the images on vessels made of Ancient Mexico.

No one will be able to answer the question about the time and place of giving the cross a new form, a new meaning, more directly, more expressively connecting it with the sun. But this happened, and among the most ancient symbolic designs appeared new sign.

The sign itself is silent and bears neither guilt nor responsibility. People who use it for their own purposes, both plausible and unseemly, are responsible.

Since the 1930s, debates have flared up around the world about the meaning and historical role swastikas. In Russia, which suffered so cruelly from the enemy who destroyed the country under banners with the swastika sign, this hostility took hold in the souls of people and has not subsided for half a century, especially in the souls of representatives of the older generation. But, nevertheless, the ban of the sign in a country, or region, or city looks like: the swastika sign has too deep and ancient a destiny.

It is important to look at India for the reason that archaeologists and historians have found very few images of swastikas on monuments from other Asian countries close to India. Only one is mentioned in the literature ancient image This sign, dating back to the same and even deeper antiquity, is the swastika at the bottom of a vessel from Samaria, which is dated (or, more precisely, is usually dated) to the 4th millennium BC. Who created these many other things found that speak of the high development of the culture of the local population, who created prosperous cities and a developed agricultural civilization here?

This was one of the ancient civilizations land, mentioned in books most often under the name of the Indus Valley civilization, or the Harappan civilization (by the name of one of the local cities). This civilization is called pre-Aryan because its heyday occurred in the 4th-3rd millennium BC, i.e. for those centuries when the tribes of nomadic cattle breeders of the Aryans were still moving towards India across the lands Eastern Europe, and then Central Asia. Where did their long movement begin? According to a theory widespread in science, known as the northern or arctic, the ancestors of the Aryans (“Aryans”) lived originally, along with the distant ancestors of all the peoples who carried Indo-European languages, on the lands of the Arctic.

Slavic swastika, its meaning for us should be the subject special attention. Confused fascist swastika and Slavic is possible only with complete ignorance of history and culture. A thoughtful and attentive person knows that the swastika was not originally a “brand” of Germany during the times of fascism. Today, not all people remember the true history of the origin of this sign. And all this thanks to the world tragedy of the Great Patriotic War, thundering across the Earth under the standard of the subordinate swastika (enclosed in an unbroken circle). We need to figure out what this swastika symbol was in Slavic culture, why it is still revered, and how we can put it into practice today. We remember that the Nazi swastika is prohibited in Russia.

Archaeological excavations on site modern Russia and in its neighboring countries they confirm that the swastika is a much older symbol than the emergence of fascism. Thus, there are finds with images of the solar symbol dating back to 10,000-15,000 years before our era. Slavic culture is replete with numerous facts, confirmed by archaeologists, that the swastika was used by our people everywhere.

vessel found in the Caucasus

The Slavs still preserved the memory of this sign, because embroidery patterns are still passed on, as well as ready-made towels, or homespun belts and other products. The photo shows belts of the Slavs from different regions and dates.

By looking up old photographs and drawings, you can verify that the Russians also widely used the swastika symbol. For example, the image of swastikas in laurel wreath on money, weapons, banners, sleeve chevrons of Red Army soldiers (1917-1923). The honor of the uniform and the solar symbol at the center of the symbolism were one.

But even today you can find both direct and stylized swastikas in the architecture preserved in Russia. For example, let's take just one city, St. Petersburg. Take a closer look at the mosaic on the floor of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, or the Hermitage, at the forged vignettes, and the sculpting on buildings along many of the streets and embankments of this city.

Floor in St. Isaac's Cathedral.

Floor in the Small Hermitage, room 241, “History of ancient painting”.

Fragment of the ceiling in the Small Hermitage, room 214, " Italian art end of the 15th - 16th centuries."

House in St. Petersburg on Promenade des Anglais, no. 24 (the building was built in 1866).

Slavic swastika - meaning and meaning

The Slavic swastika is an equilateral cross, the ends of which are equally bent in one direction (sometimes along the movement of the clock hands, sometimes against). When bending, the ends on the four sides of the figure form a right angle (straight swastika), and sometimes sharp or obtuse (oblique swastika). A symbol was depicted with pointed and rounded ends.

Such symbols may mistakenly include a double, triple (“triskelion” with three rays, the symbol of Zervan - the god of space and time, fate and time among the Iranians), eight-rayed (“kolovrat” or “rotary”) figure. It is incorrect to call these variations swastikas. Our Slavic ancestors perceived each symbol, even if it was somewhat similar to another, as a force that had its own separate purpose and function in Nature.

Our dear ancestors gave the meaning to the swastika as follows - the movement of forces and bodies in a spiral. If this is the sun, then the sign showed vortex currents in the celestial body. If this is the Galaxy, the Universe, then the movement was understood celestial bodies in a spiral within the system around a certain center. The center is, as a rule, “self-luminous” light (white light that has no source).

Slavic swastika in other traditions and peoples

In ancient times, our ancestors of Slavic families, along with other peoples, revered swastika symbols not only as amulets, but also as signs of sacred meaning. They helped people get in touch with the gods. Thus, in Georgia they still believe that the rounded corners in the swastika mean nothing more than the infinity of movement in the entire Universe.

The Indian swastika is now inscribed not only on the temples of various Aryan gods, but is also used as a protective symbol in the home. This sign is drawn before entering a home, painted on dishes, and used in embroidery. Modern Indian fabrics are still produced with designs of rounded swastika symbols, similar to a blooming flower.

Near India, in Tibet, Buddhists are no less respectful of the swastika, drawing it on statues of Buddha. In this tradition, the swastika means that the cycle in the Universe is endless. In many ways, even the whole law of the Buddha is based on this, as recorded in the dictionary “Buddhism”, Moscow, ed. "Republic", 1992 Back in the days of Tsarist Russia, the emperor met with Buddhist lamas, finding much in common in the wisdom and philosophy of the two cultures. Today, lamas use the swastika as a sign of protection against evil spirits and demons.

The Slavic swastika and the fascist one differ in that the first is not included in a square, circle or any other outline, while on the Nazi flags we observe that the figure is most often located in the center of a white circle-disk located on a red field. The Slavs never had the desire or purpose to place the sign of any God, Lord or power in a confined space.

We are talking about the so-called “subordination” of the swastika so that it “works” for those who use it at will. There is an opinion that after A. Hitler drew attention to this symbol, a special witchcraft ritual was performed. The motive of the ritual was the following - to begin to control with the help heavenly powers the whole world, subjugating all nations. The sources are silent as to how true this is, but many generations of people were able to see what could be done with the symbol and how to denigrate it and use it to their advantage.

Swastika in Slavic culture - where it is used

Swastika Slavic peoples found in different signs, which have their own names. In total, there are 144 species of such names today. The following variations are popular among them: Kolovrat, Charovrat, Posolon, Inglia, Agni, Svaor, Ognevik, Suasti, Yarovrat, Svarga, Rasich, Svyatoch and others.

IN Christian tradition swastikas are still used to depict Orthodox icons various saints. An attentive person will see such signs on mosaics, paintings, icons, or a priest’s robe.

Small swastikas and double swastikas depicted on the robe of Christ Pantocrator Pantocrator - a Christian fresco of the St. Sophia Cathedral of the Novgorod Kremlin.

Today, swastika symbols are used by those Slavs who continue to honor the horses of their ancestors and remember their Native Gods. So, to celebrate the day of Perun the Thunderer, there are round dances around swastika signs laid out (or inscribed) on the ground - “Fash” or “Agni”. There are also many famous dance"Kolovrat". The magical meaning of the sign was passed down from generation to generation. Therefore, understanding Slavs today can freely wear amulets with swastika signs and use them as talismans.

The swastika in Slavic culture was perceived differently in different places in Russia. For example, on the Pechora River, residents called this sign “hare”, perceiving it as sunny bunny, beam sunlight. But in Ryazan - “feather grass”, seeing in the sign the embodiment of the element of wind. But the people also felt the fiery power in the sign. Thus, the names “solar wind”, “Ognivtsy”, “Ryzhik” (Nizhny Novgorod region) are found.

The concept of “swastika” was transformed into a semantic meaning - “that which came from Heaven.” Here are contained: “Sva” - Heaven, Svarga Heavenly, Svarog, rune “s” - direction, “tika” - running, movement, the arrival of something. Understanding the origin of the word "Suasti" ("Svasti") helps determine the strength of the sign. “Su” - good or beautiful, “asti” - to be, to remain. In general, we can summarize the meaning of the swastika - “Be kind!”.

August 21st, 2015 , 08:57 pm

Looking at this Tibetan yak, I noticed the swastika ornament. And I thought: the swastika is “fascist”!

I have come across many times attempts to divide the swastika into “right-handed” and “left-handed”. They say that "f The "ashist" swastika is "left-handed", it rotates to the left - "backward", i.e. counterclockwise in time. The Slavic swastika, on the contrary, is “right-handed.” If the swastika rotates clockwise ("right-handed" swastika), then this means an increase vital energy, if against (left-sided) - then this indicates the “suction” of vital energy to Navi, the afterlife of the dead.

michael101063 c A very ancient sacred symbol writes: "... you need to know that the swastika can be left-sided and right-sided. The left-sided one was associated with lunar cults, black magic of blood sacrifices and the downward spiral of involution. The right-sided one was associated with solar cults, white magic and the upward spiral of evolution .

It is no coincidence that the Nazis used and continue to use the left-handed swastika, just like the black sorcerers Bon-po in Tibet, to whom expeditions of the Nazi occult Institute Ahnenerbe went for sacred knowledge of antiquity.

It is no coincidence that there has always been close communication and cooperation between the Nazis and black sorcerers. And it is also not accidental that the Nazis massacred civilians, since in essence they are bloody sacrifices to the forces of darkness."

And so I look at this yak and I feel sorry for him: the stupid Tibetans have hung him all over with a “fascist” “left-handed” swastika, through which the Navy will suck out all his energy and he, poor fellow, will become hobbled and die.

Or maybe it’s not the Tibetans who are stupid, but those who divide it into the “malicious” left-sided side and the “beneficent” right-sided side? Obviously, our distant ancestors did not know such a division. Here is an ancient Novgorod ring found by the expedition of Ak. Rybakova.

If you believe modern idle “reasoning”, then the owner of this ring was a mentally abnormal person, a withered evil spirit with a penis at half past six. This is of course complete nonsense. If this form of swastika was associated with something negative, neither animals nor (especially) people would wear it.

R. Bagdasarov, our main “expert” on swastikas, notes that there are no clear meanings for the “left” and “right” swastikas even in India, not to mention other cultures. In Christianity, for example, both versions of the swastika are used.

If we divide the swastika into “positive” and “negative”, then it turns out that the clergyman worships both God and the devil at the same time, which again looks like complete nonsense.

So there are no “right-handed” or “left-handed” swastikas. A swastika is a swastika.

Half a century has passed since the end of the Second World War, but the two letters SS (more precisely, of course, SS) are still synonymous for most with horror and terror. Thanks to the mass production of Hollywood and the Soviet film factories that tried to keep up with it, almost all of us are familiar with the uniforms of the SS men and their emblem with a death's head. But the actual history of the SS is much more complex and multifaceted. In it one can find heroism and cruelty, nobility and meanness, selflessness and intrigue, deep scientific interests and a passionate craving for the ancient knowledge of distant ancestors.

The head of the SS, Himmler, who sincerely believed that the Saxon king Henry I “Birdcatcher”, the founder of the First Reich, elected in 919 as king of all Germans, was spiritually reincarnated in him. In one of his speeches in 1943 he said:

“Our order will enter the future as a union of the elite, uniting the German people and all of Europe around itself. It will give the world leaders of industry, agriculture, as well as political and spiritual leaders. We will always obey the law of elitism, choosing the superior and discarding the inferior. If we cease to follow this fundamental rule, we thereby condemn ourselves to and disappear from the face of the earth like any other human organization."

His dreams, as we know, were not destined to come true for completely different reasons. WITH youth Himmler showed an increased interest in “the ancient heritage of our ancestors.” Associated with the Thule Society, he was fascinated by the pagan culture of the Germans and dreamed of its revival - of the time when it would replace the “foul-smelling Christianity.” In the intellectual depths of the SS, a new “moral” was being developed, based on pagan ideas.

Himmler considered himself the founder of a new pagan order that was “destined to change the course of history,” to carry out a “cleansing of the rubbish accumulated over millennia” and return humanity to “the path prepared by Providence.” In connection with such grandiose plans for a “return,” it is not surprising that the ancient . On the uniforms of the SS men they were distinguished, testifying to the elitism and sense of camaraderie that reigns in the organization. From 1939 they went to war singing a hymn that included the following line: "We are all ready for battle, inspired by the runes and the death's head."

According to the Reichsführer SS, the runes were to play special role in SS symbolism: on his personal initiative, within the framework of the Ahnenerbe program - the Society for the Study and Dissemination of the Cultural Heritage of Ancestors - the Institute of Runic Writing was established. Until 1940, all recruits of the SS Order underwent mandatory instruction regarding runic symbolism. By 1945 there were 14 main runic symbols in use in the SS. The word "rune" means "secret script". Runes are the basis of alphabets carved into stone, metal and bone, and became widespread primarily in pre-Christian times. Northern Europe among the ancient Germanic tribes.

"...The great gods - Odin, Ve and Willi carved a man from ash and a woman from willow. The eldest of Bor's children, Odin, breathed soul into people and gave life. To give them new knowledge, Odin went to Utgard, the Land of Evil , to the World Tree. There he tore out his eye and brought it to , but this seemed not enough to the Guardians of the Tree. Then he gave his life - he decided to die in order to be resurrected. For nine days he hung on a branch, pierced by a spear. Each of the eight nights of Initiation revealed new ones to him. the secrets of existence. On the ninth morning, Odin saw rune-letters inscribed on the stone under him. His mother’s father, the giant Belthorn, taught him to carve and paint runes, and from then on the World Tree began to be called Yggdrasil..."

This is how the Snorrian Edda (1222-1225) talks about the acquisition of runes by the ancient Germans, perhaps the only full review heroic epic ancient Germans, based on legends, prophecies, spells, sayings, cults and rituals of the Germanic tribes. In the Edda, Odin was revered as the god of war and the patron of the dead heroes of Valhalla. He was also considered a necromancer.

The famous Roman historian Tacitus, in his book “Germania” (98 BC), described in detail how the Germans were engaged in predicting the future using runes.

Each rune had a name and magical meaning that went beyond purely linguistic boundaries. The design and composition changed over time and acquired magical significance in Teutonic astrology. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. The runes were remembered by various "folkish" (folk) groups that spread in Northern Europe. Among them was the Thule Society, which played a significant role in the early days of the Nazi movement.

Hakenkreutz

SWASTIKA is the Sanskrit name for the sign depicting a hook cross (among the ancient Greeks this sign, which became known to them from the peoples of Asia Minor, was called “tetraskele” - “four-legged”, “spider”). This sign was associated with the cult of the Sun among many peoples and is found already in the era Upper Paleolithic and even more often - in the Neolithic era, first of all in Asia (according to other sources, the oldest image of the swastika was discovered in Transylvania, it dates back to the late stone age; The swastika was also found in the ruins of the legendary Troy, this is the Bronze Age). Already from the 7th-6th centuries BC. e. it enters into symbolism, where it signifies the secret doctrine of the Buddha. The swastika is reproduced on the oldest coins of India and Iran (BC penetrates from there to); V Central America also known among peoples as a sign indicating the circulation of the Sun. In Europe, the spread of this sign dates back to a relatively late time - the Bronze and Iron Ages. During the era of migration of peoples, he penetrates through the Finno-Ugric tribes to the north of Europe, Scandinavia and the Baltic, and becomes one of the supreme Scandinavian god Odin (Wotan in German mythology), who suppressed and absorbed the previous solar (solar) cults. Thus, the swastika, as one of the varieties of the image of the solar circle, was practically found in all parts of the world, as a solar sign served as an indication of the direction of rotation of the Sun (from left to right) and was also used as a sign of well-being, “turning away from the left side.”

It was precisely because of this that the ancient Greeks, who learned about this sign from the peoples of Asia Minor, changed the turn of their “spider” to the left and at the same time changed its meaning, turning it into a sign of evil, decline, death, since for them it was “alien” . Since the Middle Ages, the swastika was completely forgotten and was only occasionally found as a purely ornamental motif without any meaning or significance.

Only in the late XIX century, probably based on the erroneous and hasty conclusion of some German archaeologists and ethnographers that the swastika sign can be an indicator for identifying Aryan peoples, since it is allegedly found only among them, in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century they began to use the swastika as an anti-Semitic sign (for the first time in 1910), although later, at the end of the 20s, the works of English and Danish archaeologists were published, who discovered the swastika not only in territories inhabited by Semitic peoples (in Mesopotamia and Palestine), but also directly on Hebrew sarcophagi.

For the first time, the swastika was used as a political sign-symbol on March 10-13, 1920 on the helmets of militants of the so-called “Erhard Brigade”, which formed the core of the “Volunteer Corps” - a monarchical paramilitary organization under the leadership of generals Ludendorff, Seeckt and Lützow, who carried out the Kapp putsch - counter-revolutionary a coup that installed the landowner W. Kapp as “premier” in Berlin. Although the Social Democratic government of Bauer fled ignominiously, the Kapp putsch was liquidated in five days by the 100,000-strong German Army created under the leadership of the German Communist Party. The authority of militaristic circles was then greatly undermined, and from that time on the swastika symbol began to mean a sign of right-wing extremism. Since 1923, on the eve of Hitler’s “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich, the swastika became the official emblem of Hitler’s fascist party, and since September 1935 - the main state emblem Hitler's Germany, included in its coat of arms and flag, as well as in the emblem of the Wehrmacht - an eagle holding a wreath with a swastika in its talons.

Only a swastika standing on an edge at 45°, with the ends directed towards the right side. 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. It is also advisable to call it not “swastika”, but Hakenkreuz, as the Nazis themselves did. The most accurate reference books consistently distinguish between Hakenkreuz (" Nazi swastika") And traditional types swastikas in Asia and America, which stand on the surface at an angle of 90°.

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Half a century has passed since the end of the Second World War, but the two letters SS (more precisely, of course, SS) are still synonymous for most with horror and terror. Thanks to the mass production of Hollywood and the Soviet film factories that tried to keep up with it, almost all of us are familiar with the black uniforms of the SS men and their emblem with a death's head. But the actual history of the SS is significantly...

What is a swastika? Many will answer without hesitation - the fascists used the swastika symbol. Someone will say - this is an ancient Slavic amulet, and both will be right and wrong at the same time. How many legends and myths are there around this sign? They say that on the very shield that Prophetic Oleg A swastika was nailed to the doors of Constantinople.

What is a swastika?

The swastika is an ancient symbol that appeared before our era and has a rich history. Many nations dispute each other's right to its invention. Images of swastikas were found in China and India. This is very significant symbol. What does the swastika mean - creation, sun, prosperity. The translation of the word “swastika” from Sanskrit means a wish for good and good luck.

Swastika - origin of the symbol

The swastika symbol is a solar sign. The main meaning is movement. The earth moves around the sun, the four seasons constantly replace each other - it is easy to see that the main meaning of the symbol is not just movement, but the eternal movement of the universe. Some researchers declare the swastika to be a reflection of the eternal rotation of the galaxy. The swastika is a symbol of the sun, all ancient peoples have references to it: at excavations of Inca settlements, fabrics with the image of a swastika were found, it is on ancient Greek coins, even on the stone idols of Easter Island there are swastika signs.

The original drawing of the sun is a circle. Then, noticing the four-part picture of existence, people began to draw a cross with four rays to the circle. However, the picture turned out to be static - and the universe is eternally in dynamics, and then the ends of the rays bent - the cross turned out to be moving. These rays also symbolize four days of the year that were significant for our ancestors - the days of the summer/winter solstice, the spring and autumn equinox. These days determine the astronomical change of seasons and served as signs when to engage in farming, construction and other important matters for society.

Swastika left and right

We see how comprehensive this sign is. It is very difficult to explain in monosyllables what a swastika means. It is multifaceted and multi-valued, it is a sign of the fundamental principle of existence with all its manifestations, and among other things, the swastika is dynamic. It can rotate both right and left. Many people confuse and consider the direction where the ends of the rays point to be the side of rotation. This is wrong. The side of rotation is determined by the bending angles. Let's compare it with a human leg - the movement is directed where the bent knee is directed, and not the heel at all.

Left-handed swastika

There is a theory that says that clockwise rotation is the correct swastika, and counterclockwise is a bad, dark swastika, the opposite. However, this would be too banal - right and left, black and white. In nature, everything is justified - day gives way to night, summer - winter, there is no division into good and bad - everything that exists is needed for something. So it is with the swastika - there is no good or bad, there is left-handed and right-handed.

Left-handed swastika - rotates counterclockwise. This is the meaning of cleansing, restoration. Sometimes it is called the sign of destruction - in order to build something light, you need to destroy the old and dark. The swastika could be worn in left rotation; it was called the “Heavenly Cross” and was a symbol of clan unity, an offering to the one who wears it, the help of all the ancestors of the clan and the protection of heavenly forces. The left-sided swastika was considered a collective sign of the autumn sun.

Right-hand swastika

The right-hand swastika rotates clockwise and denotes the beginning of all things - birth, development. This is a symbol of the spring sun - creative energy. It was also called Novorodnik or the Solar Cross. It symbolized the power of the sun and the prosperity of the family. The sun sign and the swastika in this case are equal. It was believed that it gave the greatest power to priests. The prophetic Oleg, who was spoken of at the beginning, had the right to wear this sign on his shield, since he was in charge, that is, he knew the Ancient Wisdom. From these beliefs came theories proving the ancient Slavic origin of the swastika.

Slavic swastika

The left-sided and right-sided swastika of the Slavs is called – and Posolon. The swastika fills the Kolovrat with light, protects from darkness, Salting gives hard work and spiritual perseverance, the sign serves as a reminder that man was created for development. These names are only two of a large group of Slavic swastika signs. What they had in common were crosses with curved arms. There could be six or eight rays, they were bent both to the right and to the left, each sign had its own name and was responsible for a specific security function. The Slavs had 144 main swastika symbols. In addition to the above, the Slavs had:

• Solstice;
• England;
• Svarozhich;
• Wedding Party;
• Perunov light;
• Heavenly boar and many other types of variations based on the solar elements of the swastika.

Swastika of the Slavs and the Nazis - differences

Unlike the fascist one, the Slavs did not have strict canons in the depiction of this sign. There could be any number of rays, they could be broken under different angles, could have been rounded. The symbol of the swastika among the Slavs is a greeting, a wish for good luck, while at the Nazi congress in 1923, Hitler convinced supporters that the swastika meant the fight against Jews and communists for purity of blood and superiority Aryan race. The fascist swastika has its own strict requirements. This and only this image is the German swastika:

1. The ends of the cross should be bent to the right;
2. All lines intersect strictly at an angle of 90°;
3. The cross must be in a white circle on a red background.
4. The correct word to say is not “swastika”, but Hakkenkreyz

Swastika in Christianity

In early Christianity, they often resorted to the image of the swastika. It was called the “gamma cross” because of its similarity with the Greek letter gamma. The swastika was used to disguise the cross during the times of persecution of Christians - Catacomb Christianity. The swastika or Gammadion was the main emblem of Christ until the end of the Middle Ages. Some experts draw a direct parallel between the Christian and swastika crosses, calling the latter a “whirling cross.”

The swastika was actively used in Orthodoxy before the revolution: as part of the ornament of priestly vestments, in icon painting, in frescoes that painted the walls of churches. However, there is also the exact opposite opinion - the gammadion is a broken cross, a pagan symbol that has nothing to do with Orthodoxy.

Swastika in Buddhism

You can encounter a swastika wherever there are traces of Buddhist culture; it is the footprint of Buddha. The Buddhist swastika, or “manji,” denotes the versatility of the world order. The vertical line is opposed to the horizontal one, like the relationship between heaven and earth and the relationship between male and female. Turning the rays in one direction emphasizes the desire for kindness, gentleness, and in the opposite direction - for hardness and strength. This gives an understanding of the impossibility of the existence of force without compassion, and compassion without force, the denial of any one-sidedness as a violation of world harmony.

Indian swastika

The swastika is no less common in India. There are left- and right-handed swastikas. Rotation clockwise symbolizes the male energy “yin”, counter-clockwise - the female energy “yang”. Sometimes this sign denotes all the gods and goddesses in Hinduism, then, at the line of intersection of the rays, the sign “om” is added - a symbol of the fact that all gods have a common beginning.

1. Right rotation: denotes the sun, its movement from east to west - the development of the universe.
2. Left rotation represents the goddess Kali, magic, night - the folding of the universe.

Is the swastika prohibited?

The swastika was banned by the Nuremberg Tribunal. Ignorance has given rise to a lot of myths, for example, that the swastika stands for four connected letters “G” - Hitler, Himmler, Goering, Goebbels. However, this version turned out to be completely untenable. Hitler, Himmler, Göring, Goebbels - not a single surname begins with this letter. There are known cases when the most valuable specimens containing images of swastikas in embroidery, on jewelry, ancient Slavic and early Christian amulets were confiscated and destroyed from museums.

Many European countries have laws that prohibit fascist symbols, but the principle of freedom of speech is almost undeniable. Each case of the use of Nazi symbols or swastikas looks like a separate trial.

1. In 2015, Roskomnazor allowed the use of swastika images without propaganda purposes.
2. Germany has strict legislation regulating the depiction of swastikas. There are several court decisions banning or allowing images.
3. France has passed a law banning the public display of Nazi symbols.