[Vince Ferrer]

Buddhism has swastikas and their meaning is not the same as the German ones. The swastikas in this picture though, seem to be the German kind.

[lee martell]

The Ghost Ship of Oakland Ca.; Where Santeria meets Wicca, then whoops it up with the ghost of Timothy Leary.

[Candor7]

Buddhism has swastikas and their meaning is not the same as the German ones. The swastikas in this picture though, seem to be the German kind.>>>>>>>

That’s confirmed.

The origin of the tem svastika is sanskrit.

The design originates from a pattern of the geological striations between several strata on the sides of Mount Kailas, appearing only in the Spring during thaw, thought to be the center or navel of the world by the Brahmins of ancient India. Mount Kailas also was thought to be the mountain home of various Hindu deities. The rotation of the Hindu svastika or Buddhist version would be clockwise.

The Nazi version of the svastika is in reverse, in rotation it would be counter-clockwise , and as such, unnatural, the opposite of the ancient peaceful meaning of the true , original svastika.

[cynwoody]

Buddhism has swastikas and their meaning is not the same as the German ones. The swastikas in this picture though, seem to be the German kind.

That may be true, but there are precious few swastikas in that image (I refuse to play Where's Waldo Adolf).

The Nazi swastika points clockwise and is rotated 45° left.

Benign swastikas generally are unrotated and may point clockwise or counter-clockwise. E.g., the Hindu version is unrotated, points clockwise, and has additional dots.

Outside the Krautisch context, the swastika generally means good luck. Here, for example, is a Navajo version, unrotated, counter-clockwise:

The swastika is just a shape.