Mikhail Zadornov reflects on Trekhlebov’s arrest in his blog.
Mikhail Zadornov
The first information has appeared why Trekhlebov was arrested: he is accused of using Nazi symbols.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 for Germany and for his party a double-headed eagle - also an ancient symbol - would today's successor managers have ranked him among the Nazi symbols? How many of the power-hungry maniacs who dreamed of conquering the world used various ancient magical symbols to achieve success and convince the masses?
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 enter Buddhist monasteries in India, exclaim in horror: “What kind of disgusting thing is this?” when they see 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 of a Soviet person. Brought too much trouble Patriotic War. 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 constantly in Russian northern folk patterns. 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 there are 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 as “k” (and vice versa) among the southern peoples (they were 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 a maddened Germany?! And he desecrated her! Moreover, I took only the solar sign that 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 people gather at a conference Slavic people 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 common denominator still Russian. (Moreover, already at a time when Russian was considered the language of the occupiers).
So, let's draw the line. Trekhlebov spread knowledge about light, about the sun, and he was arrested!
Just a new version of the legend 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 the solar symbol itself was not to blame for the horror that Hitler 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 Hitler, and not 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 convince the Soviet people that Hitler himself invented the Hitler swastika 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 a person tried to express his attitude to the four countries of the world, his understanding of the world order, and to depict the main areas of the 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 from Ancient Mexico are very clear.
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 a new sign appeared among the most ancient symbolic designs.
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 prohibition of a sign in a country, or region, or city looks like: the swastika sign is too deep and ancient fate.
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 pastoralists of the Aryans were just moving towards India through the lands of 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 theory, the ancestors of the Aryans (“Aryans”) originally lived, along with the distant ancestors of all peoples who spoke Indo-European languages, on the lands of the Arctic.
The version that it was Hitler who had the brilliant idea to make the swastika a symbol of the National Socialist movement belongs to the Fuhrer himself and was voiced in Mein Kampf. Probably, nine-year-old Adolf first saw a swastika on the wall of a Catholic monastery near the town of Lambach.
The swastika sign has been popular since ancient times. A cross with curved ends has appeared on coins, household items, and coats of arms since the eighth millennium BC. The swastika symbolized life, sun, and prosperity. Hitler could see the swastika again in Vienna on the emblem of Austrian anti-Semitic organizations.
By christening the archaic solar symbol the Hakenkreuz (Hakenkreuz is translated from German as hook cross), Hitler arrogated to himself the priority of the discoverer, although the idea of the swastika as a political symbol had taken root in Germany before him. In 1920, Hitler, who was, albeit unprofessional and untalented, but still an artist, allegedly independently developed the design of the party logo, proposing a red flag with a white circle in the middle, in the center of which a hooked black swastika spread predatorily.
The color red, according to the leader of the National Socialists, was chosen in imitation of the Marxists who used it. Seeing a hundred and twenty thousand demonstration of leftist forces under scarlet banners, Hitler noted the active influence of the bloody color on the common man. In the book Mein Kampf, the Fuhrer mentioned the "great psychological significance» symbols and their ability to powerfully influence emotions. But it was precisely by controlling the emotions of the crowd that Hitler managed to introduce the ideology of his party to the masses in an unprecedented way.
By adding a swastika to the red color, Adolf gave a diametrically opposite meaning to the favorite color scheme of the socialists. By attracting the attention of the workers with the familiar color of the posters, Hitler carried out a “recruitment.”
In Hitler's interpretation, the red color personified the idea of movement, white - the sky and nationalism, the hoe-shaped swastika - labor and the anti-Semitic struggle of the Aryans. Creative work was mysteriously interpreted as anti-Semitic.
In general, it is impossible to call Hitler the author of National Socialist symbols, contrary to his statements. He borrowed the color from the Marxists, the swastika and even the name of the party (slightly rearranging the letters) from the Viennese nationalists. The idea of using symbolism is also plagiarism. It belongs to the oldest party member - a dentist named Friedrich Krohn, who submitted a memorandum to the party leadership back in 1919. However, the savvy dentist is not mentioned in the bible of National Socialism, Mein Kampf.
However, Kron put a different content into the decoding of symbols. The red color of the banner is love for the homeland, the white circle is a symbol of innocence for the outbreak of the First World War, the black color of the cross is grief over losing the war.
In Hitler’s interpretation, the swastika became a sign of the Aryan struggle against “subhumans.” The claws of the cross seem to be aimed at Jews, Slavs, and representatives of other peoples who do not belong to the race of “blond beasts.”
Unfortunately, the ancient positive sign was discredited by the National Socialists. The Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946 banned Nazi ideology and symbols. The swastika was also banned. IN lately she has been somewhat rehabilitated. Roskomnadzor, for example, recognized in April 2015 that displaying this sign outside of a propaganda context is not an act of extremism. Although a “reprehensible past” cannot be erased from a biography, and the swastika is used by some racist organizations.
Swastika(Sanskrit. स्वस्तिक from Sanskrit. स्वस्ति, svasti, greeting, wish of good luck) - a cross with curved ends (“rotating”), directed either clockwise (this is the movement of the earth around the sun) or counterclockwise.
(Old Indian svastika, from su, lit. “connected with good”), one of the most archaic symbols, found already in images of the Upper Paleolithic, in the ornaments of many peoples in different parts of the world.
The swastika is one of the most ancient and widespread graphic symbols. “The swastika symbol crystallizes from the diamond-meander design, which first appeared in the Upper Paleolithic, and then inherited by almost all the peoples of the world.” The oldest archaeological finds depicting a swastika date back to approximately 25-23 millennium BC (Mezin, Kostenki, Russia).
The swastika was used by many peoples of the world - it was present on weapons, objects everyday life, clothing, banners and coats of arms, was used in the decoration of churches and houses.
The swastika as a symbol has many meanings, and for most peoples they are positive. For most ancient peoples, the swastika was a symbol of the movement of life, the Sun, light, and prosperity.
Celtic Stone of Kermaria, 4th century BC
The swastika reflects the main type of movement in the Universe - rotational with its derivative - translational and is capable of symbolizing philosophical categories.
In the 20th century, the swastika (German: Hakenkreuz) became known as a symbol of Nazism and Hitler’s Germany, and in Western culture it is firmly associated with Hitler’s regime and ideology.
History and significance
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), consisting of four Greek letters “gamma”. The swastika is considered not only as a solar symbol, but also as a symbol of the fertility of the earth. This 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. 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.
White glazed mesh covered eagle nut, Yi Dynasty
The swastika personifies a moral characteristic: movement along the sun is good, against the sun is evil. (()) In the symbolism of auspiciousness, the sign is depicted in the form of a cross with ends bent at an angle or oval (in a clockwise direction), which means “screwing in” energies , holding the flow of physical forces in order to control lower forces. The right-sided swastika is perceived as a sign of domination over matter and control of energy (as in yoga: keeping the body motionless, “screwing in” the lower energies makes it possible for the higher forces of energy to manifest themselves). A left-sided swastika, on the contrary, means unscrewing physical and instinctive forces and creating an obstacle to the passage of higher forces; the direction of movement gives preference to the mechanical, earthly side, the exclusive desire for power in matter. The swastika, positioned counterclockwise, is also seen as a symbol of black magic and negative energies. As a solar sign, the swastika serves as an emblem of life and light. It is perceived as an incomplete zodiac circle or as the wheel of life. Sometimes the swastika is identified with another solar sign - a cross in a circle, where the cross is a sign of the diurnal movement of the Sun. The archaic spiral swastika with the symbol of a ram is known as a symbol of the Sun. A symbol of rotation, continuous movement, expressing immutability solar cycle, or the rotation of the Earth around its axis. A rotating cross, the blades at the ends representing the movement of light. The swastika contains the idea of eternal overcoming the inertia of the square by the wheel of rotation.
The swastika is found in the culture of the peoples of many countries around the world: in the symbolism of Ancient Egypt, in Iran, in Russia, in the ornaments of different communities. 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. Even 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. 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. 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.
In the cultures of countries
The swastika is one of the most archaic sacred symbols, found already in the Upper Paleolithic among many peoples of the world. India, ancient Rus', China, Ancient Egypt, Mayan state in central America- here is the incomplete geography of this symbol. Swastika symbols were used to designate calendar signs back in the days of the Scythian kingdom. The swastika can be seen on old Orthodox icons. The swastika is a symbol of the Sun, good luck, happiness, and creation (the “correct” swastika). And, accordingly, the swastika in the opposite direction symbolizes darkness, destruction, the “night Sun” among the ancient Russians. As can be seen from ancient ornaments, in particular on jugs found in the vicinity of Arkaim, both swastikas were used. This has deep meaning. Day follows night, light follows darkness, rebirth follows 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.
The first swastika designs appeared at an early stage in the formation of the symbolism of the Western Asian Neolithic cultures. Swastika-like figure 7 thousand BC. from Asia Minor consists of four cruciform scrolls, i.e. signs of vegetation, and, obviously, represents one of the variants of the ideogram of the concept “four cardinal directions”. The memory that the swastika once symbolized the four directions of the world is recorded in medieval Muslim manuscripts, and has also been preserved to this day among American Indians. Another swastika-like figure, dating back to the early stage of the Asia Minor Neolithic, consists of the Earth sign (a square with a dot) and four plant-like appendages adjacent to it. It seems that in compositions of this kind we should see the origin of the swastika - in particular, its version with rounded ends. The latter is confirmed, for example, by the ancient Cretan swastika, combined with four plant elements.
This symbol was found on clay vessels from Samarra (the territory of modern Iraq), which date back to the 5th millennium BC. The swastika in levorotatory and dextrorotatory forms is found in the pre-Aryan culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus River basin) and ancient China around 2000 BC. In Northeast Africa, archaeologists have found a funeral stele from the kingdom of Meroz, which existed in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. 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 was on almost all amulets of the Slavs, Germans, Pomors, Skalvi, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvash and many other peoples. In many religions, the swastika is an important religious symbol.
Ancient Greek funerary vessel, approximately 750 AD. BC
Details of an ancient Greek burial vessel
The swastika in India has traditionally been viewed as a solar sign - a symbol of life, light, generosity and abundance. She was closely connected with the cult of the god Agni. She is mentioned in the Ramayana. A wooden tool was made in the shape of a swastika for producing sacred fire. They laid him flat on the ground; the depression in the middle served for a rod, which was rotated until a fire appeared, lit on the altar of the deity. It was carved in many temples, on rocks, on ancient monuments of India. Also a symbol of esoteric Buddhism. In this aspect it is called the “Seal of the Heart” and, according to legend, was imprinted on the heart of the Buddha. Her image is placed on the hearts of initiates after their death. Known as the Buddhist cross (shape similar to the Maltese cross). The swastika is found wherever there are traces of Buddhist culture - on rocks, in temples, stupas and on Buddha statues. Together with Buddhism, it penetrated from India to China, Tibet, Siam and Japan.
Torso of a female sculpture, Sixth century BC.
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 spiral, 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. Widely used by Jains and followers of Vishnu. In Jainism, the four arms of the swastika represent the four levels of existence.
Swastika in India
On one of the Buddhist swastikas, each blade of the cross ends with a triangle indicating the direction of movement and crowned with the 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. IN Eastern Europe, Western Siberia, Central Asia and the Caucasus has been found since the 2nd–1st millennium BC. In Western Europe it was known to the Celts. 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. In early Christianity, the swastika was known as a gamma cross. According to Guenon, until the end of the Middle Ages it was one of the emblems of Christ. According to Ossendowski, 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. Ossendowski saw this ring on the hand of the Mongol governor. Currently this magic symbol known mainly in India and Central and East Asia.
Swastika on Russian territory
In Rus', swastika symbols have been known since ancient times.
The rhombic-meander swastika ornament in the Kostenki and Mezin cultures (25 - 20 thousand years BC) was studied by V. A. Gorodtsov.
As a special type of swastika, symbolizing the rising Sun-Yaril, the victory of Light over Darkness, Eternal life over death, was called Kolovrat (lit. “rotation of the wheel”, the Old Slavonic form Kolovrat was also used in the Old Russian language).
In Russian folk ornaments, the swastika was one of the common figures until late XIX V.
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
In the St. Petersburg Necropolis, Glinka's grave is crowned with a swastika.
In post-war children's 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.
Swastika in India
In pre-Buddhist ancient Indian and some other cultures, the swastika is usually interpreted as a sign of favorable destinies, a symbol of the sun. This symbol is still widely used in India and South Korea, and most weddings, holidays and celebrations are not complete without it.
Swastika in India
Buddhist symbol of perfection (also known as manji, “whirlwind” (Japanese: まんじ, “ornament, cross, swastika”)). The vertical line indicates the relationship between heaven and earth, and the horizontal line indicates the yin-yang relationship. The direction of short lines to the left represents movement, softness, love, compassion, and their direction to the right is associated with constancy, firmness, intelligence and strength. Thus, any one-sidedness is a violation of world harmony and cannot lead to universal happiness. Love and compassion without strength and firmness are helpless, and strength and reason without mercy and love lead to the increase of evil.
Swastika in European culture
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 Europe, 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, being very common in Latvian culture since ancient times, was depicted on the banners of battalions (then regiments) of the Latvian Rifles Russian army.
Altars with swastika V Europe:
From Aquitaine
Then, since 1918, it became an element of official symbols Republic of Latvia- emblem of military aviation, regimental insignia, insignia of societies and various organizations, state awards, still used today. The Latvian Military Order of Lāčplēsis had the shape of a swastika. Since 1918, the swastika has been part of the state symbols of Finland (now depicted on the presidential standard, as well as on the banners of the armed forces). Later it became a symbol of the German Nazis, after they came to power - the state symbol of Germany (depicted on the coat of arms and flag); after World War II, her image was banned in a number of countries.
Swastika in Nazism
The National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), which appeared in the 20s of the 20th century, chose the swastika as its party symbol. Since 1920, the swastika has become associated with Nazism and racism.
There is a very common misconception that the Nazis chose the right-handed swastika as their emblem, thereby perverting the precepts of the ancient sages and desecrating the sign itself, which is more than five thousand years old. In reality this is not the case. In cultures different nations Both left- and right-handed swastikas are found.
Only a four-pointed swastika, standing on an edge at 45°, with the ends directed towards 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. The Nazis themselves used the term Hakenkreuz (literally “crooked (hooked) cross”), which is synonymous with the word swastika (German Swastika), also used in German.
In Russia, a stylized swastika is used as an emblem by the All-Russian social movement Russian National Unity (RNE). Russian nationalists claim that the Russian swastika - the Kolovrat - is an ancient Slavic symbol and cannot be recognized as Nazi symbols.
Swastika in other cultures
Mein Kampf is Hitler's autobiography, where he said that the swastika, as a symbol of the National Socialist movement, was his idea. As a child, Adolf most likely saw this symbol on the wall of a Catholic monastery near the town of Lambach. A cross with curved ends is a sign that has been widely in demand since ancient times. He has been depicted on coins, household items and coats of arms since the 8th millennium BC. Then the swastika was a symbol of life, sun, and prosperity. Another place where Hitler could see it is the emblems of Austrian anti-Semitic organizations.
Calling the symbol Hakenkreuz (Hakenkreuz is translated from German as a hook cross), the dictator called himself the first to create this symbol, although in Germany it was used even before Hitler. So, in 1920, the leader of the fascists, so to speak, developed the party logo - a red flag, inside of which there is a white circle, and in its center a black swastika with hooks. So, red Marxism, it came after a 120 thousand demonstration of the left under the red banner. The Fuhrer also noticed how strongly the scarlet color affects the human psyche. In general, Hitler spoke about the various influence of symbols on a person, about their meaning. This was supposed to help him introduce his ideology to the masses. When the Fuhrer used the color red, he changed the face of socialism. That is, it so brightly attracted the attention of the workers who were already familiar with the red banner. By adding a black swastika to the already familiar scarlet flag, he seemed to lure citizens to his side with the help of bait.
For Hitler, red represents movement, white represents the sky and nationalism, and the swastika represents the work and struggle of the Aryans. In general, it is impossible to recognize Hitler’s full authorship in the creation of symbols. By and large, he even stole the name of the party from the Viennese nationalists, he simply rearranged some letters. The use of symbolism was the idea of the dentist Friedrich Krohn; he passed a note to the party leadership back in 1919. But in his “brilliant” autobiography, Hitler does not say a word about the dentist.
However, in the understanding of Kron himself, red was supposed to be the personification of love for the homeland, white - hatred for the First world war, and the black cross is grief over defeat in the war. Hitler stole the idea and turned it into a symbol of the fight against “inferior” races. Jews, Slavs and all other “blond beasts” had to be destroyed, the Fuhrer believed.
Thus, the ancient symbol that personified goodness became overshadowed by its use in National Socialist symbolism. Later, in 1946, the mention of Nazi ideology and symbols became prohibited, as decided by the Nuremberg Tribunal. The swastika, of course, was also banned. Today, the attitude towards the swastika has slightly decreased in degree. For example, in April 2015, Roskomnadzor recognized that its use outside of any propaganda does not constitute extremist activity. However, when anyone sees a swastika, the first thing they remember is fascism; history cannot be erased, alas. It is very difficult to return a symbol to its former meaning after such a serious degradation of its meaning. Even today, many racist organizations actively use the swastika in their illegal activities.
There is one strange hypothesis, which is mainly distributed on the Internet, it says that the swastika came to Hitler from Stalin. The authors refer to Russian banknotes from 1917 to 1923, which featured a swastika. The swastika was also found on the sleeve patches of soldiers and officers of the Red Army; it was recognized in laurel wreaths, where the letters “R.S.F.S.R.” were also located. As for Stalin, he could have “gifted” the swastika to Hitler in 1920, but this hypothesis is too vague.
In order to return the ancient symbol to its original meaning, it may take more than a dozen years.