what is the true meaning of the Nazi's Swastica???

Question

if you saw "The Davinci Code" then you might've seent the swastica on the background. I think that it is related to some ancient goddess, any true on that???

Answer 1

The Swastika symbol dates back three thousand years. Original meaning was always associated with good, and has been connected with Sun god. It is a strangely universal symbol, exisitng in many places in the world.

Maps in Japan today will still use swastika to indicate location of Bhuddist temple.

Symbols, like words, often take new meanings. The historic meaning of the swastika has in most peoples minds been replaced (since they never knew the historic meaning anyway) by the evils rightly associated with Hitler;s Nazi party, which co-opted the symbol.

Answer 2

Western use of the swastika (the Hakenkreuz), along with the religious and cultural meanings attached to it, was subverted in the early twentieth century after it was adopted as the emblem of the Nazi Party. This association occurred because Nazism stated that the historical Aryans were the forefathers of modern Germans and then proposed that, because of this, the subjugation of the world by Germany was desirable, and even predestined. The swastika was used as a conveniently geometrical and eye-catching symbol to emphasize this mythical Aryan-German correspondence and instil racial pride. Since World War II, most Westerners know the swastika as solely a Nazi symbol, leading to incorrect assumptions about its pre-Nazi use in the West and confusion about its sacred religious and historical status in other cultures.

But in reality the swastika is a holy symbol in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. It is traditionally oriented so that a main line is horizontal, though it is occasionally rotated at forty-five degrees. The Hindu version is often decorated with a dot in each quadrant.

You can check this out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Adoption_of_the_swastika_in_the_West

Answer 3

The swastika has been used for thousands of years by various cultures. It symbolizes the sun, movement of life, power, four sacred directions, winds, etc. My daughters grandmother had a Navaho ring from the 1920's with a swastika in the center. This predates Hitler, if anyone jumps to that conclusion. He used it, among other occult symbols, in his own ways. Too bad that is what many will remember.

Answer 4

Hello!
Swastika is an ancient symbol of Greeks, and the people.
The cross represents Universe.
Swastika symbolizes the moving Universe!
Nazi took this divine symbol, as many others use symbols knowing or not to decipher them!

Answer 5

I have no idea.. .but it's there's another Swastica used by Buddhists... it's nothing to do w/ Nazis cuz it was created LONG before Hitler was even born that one represents serenity or something like that...

Answer 6

racism bigotry need i go on.