opps swastika sign originate from.?

Answer 1

It was an ancient Sanskrit symbol of good fortune. many people ever since used it with the last case being the Nazis that screwed it up for the rest of us.....

Answer 2

The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years and even predates the ancient Egyptian symbol, the Ankh. Artifacts such as pottery and coins from ancient Troy show that the swastika was a commonly used symbol as far back as 1000 BC.

During the next thousand years, the image of the swastika was used by many cultures around the world, including China, Japan, India and southern Europe. By the Middle Ages the swastika was a well known, if not commonly used, symbol but was called by many different names. In China it was called the wan, in Greece the tetraskelion or gammadion, in Germany the Hakenkreuz, in England the fylfot and in India the swastika Though it is not known for exactly how long, native Americans have also used the symbol of the swastika.

The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika, which roiughly translates as, being good and was used to represent life, sun, power, strength and good luck. Even in the early twentieth century, the swastika was still a symbol with positive connotations. For instance, the swastika was a common decoration that often adorned cigarette cases, postcards, coins, and buildings. During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II.

In the 1800s countries around Germany were growing much larger, forming empires; yet Germany was not a unified country until 1871. To counter the feeling of vulnerability, German nationalists in the mid-nineteenth century began to use the swastika, because it had ancient Aryan/Indian origins, to represent a long Germanic/Aryan history.

By the end of the nineteenth century the swastika could be found on nationalist German volkisch periodicals and was the official emblem of the German Gymnasts' League. In the beginning of the twentieth century the swastika was a common symbol of German nationalism.

In 1920, Adolf Hitler decided that the Nazi Party needed its own insignia and flag. the Nazis' new flag: He desribed it as, "In red we see the social idea of the movement, in white the nationalistic idea, in the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work."

Today the swastika is still regarded as a very religious symbol by both the Buddhists and Hindus.

Answer 3

It's also a sacred symbol from the Zia and other Native Americans from the American Southwest. When I attended New Mexico State University in the early 1960s there was a carved stone swastika prominent over the main entrance of the biology building on campus...but absolutely NO Nazi ideology was heard on campus!

Answer 4

The Swastika, Crocked Man is still very much in evidence in a number of religions, designs and artifacts dating back to pre christian times, not only was it used in India, but also by the Saxons, Norsemen (vikings) and the slavic races.
The NSDAP used it as a symbol because it means power in many of the Northern European Languages.

Answer 5

it is a hindu symbol that symbolises the continuity of the universe in regular rythmn. just imagine it rotating and you get the idea. Hitler was pretty stupid to use it as a Nazi sign as it originally came from brown people in India. Even today it is used as the 2nd main sign in hinduism (after the aum sign)and every where you go in a hindu temple you can see it. but ppl are ignorant and think we are nazis.

Answer 6

if my memory serves me correctly which i doubt it will the german version is actully in reverse of the original which was from the ,somewhere in the depths of time ,a race that lived in the area that is now called germany an switzland the memory is a bit fuzzy after 20 year of not keeping up with history
im sure someone will correct me if im wrong :)

Answer 7

It rotates in reverse (anticlockwise) representing revolution. It was an ancient Geek religeous cross rotating clockwise. From Sanskrit meaning 'good luck sign'. DB

Answer 8

Sanskrit, Hindus' still use it as a symbol of Light and good fortune. The arms on the Nazi one turn the other way.

Answer 9

You also find it in Native American culture and in caves in France.
Hitler didn't even have the inventiveness to come up with a new symbol for irrational hate. He had to borrow a good one and mess with it.

Answer 10

Sanscrit. Around 5000 years ago. India. Good Luck symbol.

Then some European teenagers borrowed it, turned it around (mirror image) It became associated with that youth group Nazism.