Re: swastikas


to megami@usagi.jrd.dec.com
from Sam <SBH24@student.canterbury.ac.nz>
subject Re: swastikas
date Thu, 02 Apr 1998 13:14:09 +1300
Guys, I hate to start sounding fascist (particularly when it comes to 
a thread concerning Nazis :) but hey, this is the MEGAMI ML, not the 
Blade fanclub. Now I know I go off-topic more than Clinton pulls 
chicks, but this thread has swandived to an alltime boring low. 

Sam (it feels weird asking *others* to knock it off!)


> > Anyway, the original Aryans and others in the Indian and Asian
> > areas used both styles of swastika as a sun-symbol. The one favored
> > and made infamous by the Nazis is actually the "real" sun-symbol:
> > the circle rotates counterclockwise, from left to right; or,
> > *from East to West*, as the sun does. Even if it was a "Germanic
> > rune" that saw Teutonic or Gothic usage before the Nazis, the real
> > derivation or basis of origin was still from the East. The mirror 
> > symbol meant the same thing (maybe used by rebellious kids facing 
> > south? =^o^=)

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