The “svastika” is a 3000 year old Sanskrit symbol. In Chinese culture, its a symbol of Buddhism and in Taiwan in particular, if you see it in a restaurant, it means its vegetarian
The Nazis literally “stole” the symbol, and quite ironically, reversed it. I guess because they thought it looked cool.
IIRC it is a spinning wheel with the hooks gathering spiritual matter.
If it spins one way it collects good (or light) spiritual energy, if the other it gathers bad (or dark) spiritual energy.
So Indian = good energy, Nazi = bad energy
It has a long history of meaning good luck.
I have a lamp of my great grandmother’s that have the symbol around the base. I was concerned as a child that the lamp had Nazi connections. Gram assured me that the lamp predated Nazis, the shape was different and it came from shipments from Asia, our family had some import/export trade, and that the Step family that was Jewish was not the least bit concerned.
The swastikas or hakenkreuz was also part of celtic, nordic and middle ages Europe imagery. It had a positive connotation until the Nutsis
Exactly. Anyone watch the old Jackie Chan / Shaolin movies circa 70’s and early 80’s? I can count the swastikas in a number of them.