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To: Redcloak; Skywalk
Here's another example:

Low-fired pottery bowl from the Banshan Culture
Majiawan Village, China Neolithic Period (2165-1965 BCE)
Large central swastika probably intended to symbolize a sun wheel.

272 posted on 04/24/2006 8:56:14 AM PDT by LNewman
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To: LNewman
And there's a great introduction to the swastika, fylfot cross, suastika, tetraskelion here!

Excerpts: "A marker of the sun's travels, it can be seen on Pictish rock carvings, adorning ancient Greek pottery, and on ancient Norse weapons and implements. It was scratched on cave walls in France seven thousand years ago. A swastika marks the beginning of many Buddhist scriptures, and is often inciused on the soles of the feet of the Buddha in statuary. In the Jain religion, it is a symbol of the seventh Jina (Saint), the Tirthankara Suparsva. To Native Americans, the swastika is a symbol of the sun, the four directions, and the four seasons ...

Long before the symbol was co-opted as an emblem of Hitler's Nazi party, it was a sacred symbol to Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist religions, as well as in Norse, Basque, Baltic, and Celtic Paganism."

273 posted on 04/24/2006 9:05:10 AM PDT by LNewman
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To: LNewman

I am well aware that the swastika is an ancient symbol; however, its meaning has been permanently changed for anyone in a Western nation. Posturing aside, the "Aztlan" activists are as Western as any other Americans. (Yes, the vast majority of these activists are Natural-born U.S. Citizens. Did you notice that >90% of their signs, tee-shirts, and other trinkets are in English?) It is not a "sun wheel" to them. It is the symbol of the Nazi Party to them. Its use is deliberate.


275 posted on 04/24/2006 9:19:42 AM PDT by Redcloak (Messing up perfectly good threads since 1998.)
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