History of the Swastika

Slavic tribes used the Swastika symbol to decorate their homes and places of worship, wore embroidery on clothes in the form of this ancient symbol, used it as amulets against evil forces, and applied this sign to exquisite weapons.
For our ancestors, this symbol personified the heavenly body, representing all the brightest and kindest things that exist in our world.
Actually, this symbol was used not only by the Slavs, but also by many other people for whom it meant faith, goodness and peace.
How did it happen that this beautiful symbol of goodness and light suddenly became the personification of murder and hatred?

Thousands of years have passed since the Swastika sign was of great importance, gradually it began to be forgotten, and in the Middle Ages it was completely forgotten, only occasionally this symbol was embroidered on clothes. And only by a strange whim at the beginning of the twentieth century this sign saw the light again. at that time in Germany it was very turbulent and in order to gain self-confidence and instill it in other people they used various methods, in including occult knowledge. The Swastika sign first appeared on the helmets of German militants, and just a year later it was recognized as the official symbol of the Nazi party. Much later, Hitler himself loved to perform under the banners with this sign.

Types of swastika

From all of the above, we can conclude that not everything is as simple as it seemed to us. Therefore, do not confuse these two completely opposite meanings of the Swastika. This sign in our time can serve as an excellent protective amulet, if only it is depicted correctly. If people frightened to point your finger at this amulet, you can explain the meaning of the “Swastika” symbol and make a short excursion into the history of our ancestors, for whom this symbol was a sign of light and goodness.

I was forced to turn to this topic by long-term observations and reflections on some stable forms in architecture, religious and state symbols, folk celebrations and everything that usually falls under the concept of “tradition”. Traditions are passed down from generation to generation and are preserved for centuries and millennia; sometimes they outlive the states, languages ​​and ethnic groups that created them. Traditions carry historical information no less, and perhaps even more, than ancient papyri and books, but we do not yet know how to extract this information.

Tradition Four

Swastika or Kolovrat

The swastika was found on clay vessels from the territory of modern Iraq, which date back to the 5th millennium BC, and in ornaments on ceramics of the South Ural Andronovo culture. Left- and right-handed swastikas are found in pre-Aryan culture in the Indus River basin and in ancient China about 2000 BC (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D1%E2%E0%F1%F2%E8%EA%E0).

In 1874, Heinrich Schliemann discovered images of the swastika during excavations of Homer's Troy. During the Celtic period, the swastika was depicted on the altars of druidic cults, and it was often used in religious rituals. The history of this symbol goes back thousands of years, to the times Ancient Egypt and India. It is interpreted and how ancient symbol fertility, both as a symbol of the sun, and as the hammer of Thor - the god of thunder, storms and fertility.

The concept of building a single brick of the Universe was developed, which is used in all hierarchical structures of the Universe, regardless of its size, be it a photon, an atom or a Galaxy. According to this concept, any hierarchical structure must have symmetry - simultaneously located in two of its own spherical spaces: left- and right-handed, between which exchange processes occur. In this case, one of the spaces (right) is radiating dynamic, and the other (left) is absorbing. These spaces are not mirror images of each other, they are asymmetrical.

According to Tao, the Universe is powered by the energy of two principles: the active radiating male principle Yang (in our case, this is the right space) and the passive absorbing female Yin (left space).

It seems that the division of Nature into living and nonliving is a human invention. Nature itself does not make such distinctions: the same type of metabolic processes occur in both. An example of this is the ancient mysterious sign of the Swastika - it is both a symbol of the Universe and Eternity, and a symbol of the movement of matter at all hierarchical levels of its existence - be it an atom, a galaxy, a mineral, a living cell or a person.

However, due to the interpretations of medieval European scholastics, as well as the criminal actions of the fascists, a blatant injustice has occurred: The swastika was dishonored and experienced its spiritual death, turning from a symbol of Eternal Life into a force of destruction. But let's hope that this phenomenon is temporary and justice will prevail.

Translated from Sanskrit, “swastika” means “symbol of pure existence and well-being.” In India, Tibet, Mongolia and China, swastika signs still decorate the domes and gates of temples. Hitler, when he decided to make the swastika a state symbol, hoped that the swastika would bring him and the Third Reich good luck, but in his actions he clearly did not move towards the Right (the right-hand direction of the swastika), so the swastika led the Third Reich to defeat.

In society after the Second World War, an extremely negative attitude towards the swastika strengthened; for some reason the peoples of the world believed that the fault of this war was not Adolf Hitler and his party, but the swastika - a symbol that was widespread during the time of the Aryans.

Poor swastika! So the fascists spoiled you with their crazy ideas and their criminal actions!

But a lot of time has passed since Soviet soldiers planted the red flag of victory at the Reichstag; there are few veterans of that war left alive, for whom the swastika is just a fascist sign and nothing more. But the swastika, or Kolovrat, is the oldest Aryan symbol, most likely a talisman, and not a sign of aggression. This is also a Russian sign, and it is no less Russian than German, because the ancestral home of the Aryans is the territory of the European part of Rus'-Russia, and the Aryans Western Europe and the Aryans of India and Pakistan are those who left the ancestral homeland of their ancestors in search of the promised lands.

Therefore, it turns out that fascist Germany in 1941 attacked its distant relatives, who turned out to be more faithful to the customs of their distant Aryan ancestors than the Germans. So maybe Kolovrat is on military uniform the fascists did not help them, but helped us - Russian-Russian-Soviet? This is the issue we will try to understand now.

It turns out that the sleeve emblems of soldiers and officers of the Red Army of the South-Eastern Front in 1918 were also decorated with a swastika with the abbreviation RSFSR. This symbol is often found in ancient Russian ornaments in Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions, it traditionally decorated the homes and clothes of the Rus. Found by archaeologists in 1986 on Southern Urals ancient city Arkaim had the structure of a swastika. Having studied the distribution of the swastika in space and time, I became convinced that this symbol is even more ancient than the Aryan past, otherwise how could it have ended up among the Indians of North America?

In ancient times, when runes were still used for writing in Rus', the swastika meant “Coming from Heaven.” It was the rune SVA - Heaven (Svarog - Heavenly God). (Information from the site: http://planeta.moy.su/blog/svastika)

Galaxies can also be twisted in different directions. In the photo on the left, the galaxy is rotating to the left, and in the photo on the right, it is rotating to the right. What this is connected with is still unknown. One can only assume that the ejection of matter from a black hole located in the center of galaxies is asymmetrical; more of it is ejected in one direction and at a higher speed. Both photos are taken from the NASA website.

The swastika continues to be used in the United States to this day. In Squaw Valley in 2000, they tried to accuse one cattle owner of sympathizing with Nazism only on the grounds that he branded his cattle with a swastika brand, inherited from his fathers and grandfathers.

In 1995, in the town of Glendale (California), a group of anti-fascists tried to force the city authorities to replace 930 lampposts installed on the city streets in 1924-1926, since their cast-iron pedestals of these pillars were surrounded by swastika ornaments. The local history society had to prove that the poles, purchased at one time from a metallurgical company from Ohio, had nothing to do with the Nazis, and therefore could not offend anyone’s feelings, and the swastika design was based on local traditions Navajo Indians (http://www.slavianin.ru/svastika/stati/vedicheskie-simvoly-v-amerike.html).

The swastika with a lily in the center was depicted on the “gratitude badges” of Boy Scouts until 1940. The founder of the scouting movement, Robert Baden-Powell, then explained that it depicts a schematic map of Atlantis with 4 rivers flowing from a single center.

Items with the image of a swastika are often found by archaeologists during excavations in different parts of Europe and Asia. Sometimes swastikas decorate weapons, and more often very peaceful things like pots and combs.

Left-handed swastika in royal family in Russia it was used as a talisman and as a symbolic reflection of the personality of the king. Before her execution in 1918, the former empress drew a swastika on the wall of Ipatiev’s house. The owner of the photograph of this swastika was General Alexander Kutepov. Kutepov kept the icon found on the body of the former empress.

Inside the icon there was a note that commemorated the Green Dragon society. The Green Society, akin to the Thule Society, is still located in Tibet today. Before Hitler came to power, there lived a Tibetan lama in Berlin, nicknamed “the man with green gloves.” Hitler visited him regularly. This lama allegedly reported to the newspapers three times without error how many Nazis would be elected to the Reichstag. The initiates called the lama “the holder of the keys to the kingdom of Agartha.”

In 1926, colonies of Tibetans and Hindus appeared in Berlin and Munich. When the Nazis gained access to Reich finances, they began sending large expeditions to Tibet; These studies were not interrupted until 1943. On the day when Soviet troops ended the battle for Berlin, about a thousand bodies of people from Tibet were found among the corpses of the last defenders of Nazism.

Ignorant London reviewers of the film about the Romanovs called Empress Alexandra Feodorovna a “fascist Brünnhilde.” And the empress just consecrated Ipatiev’s house with a “talisman”, according to the ancient Aryan tradition, anticipating the end of her life.

Once upon a time, the ancient Aryans, who moved from the regions of the Russian Plain in a southern and southeastern direction, brought the swastika to Mesopotamia, Central Asia, to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - this is how the swastika entered the cultures of eastern peoples. She was depicted on painted pottery from ancient Susiana (Mesopotamian Elam on the east coast Persian Gulf in the 3rd millennium BC). So the swastika may have entered the ancient cultures of non-Indo-European peoples. Somewhat later, the swastika began to be used by Semitic peoples: the ancient Egyptians and Chaldeans, whose state was located on the western shore of the Persian Gulf.

Today, the swastika is considered by Indians to be a symbol of movement and the eternal rotation of the world - the “circle of samsara.” This symbol was supposedly imprinted on the Buddha's heart and is therefore sometimes called the "Seal of the Heart". It is placed on the chest of those initiated into the mysteries of Buddhism after their death.

Later, the swastika spread to Tibet, then to Central Asia and China. Another century later, it appeared in Japan and in South-East Asia together with Buddhism, which made it its symbol. In Japan, the swastika is called manji. Here it can be seen on samurai flags, armor and family crests.

The swastika was used not only by the Sumerians, Etruscans, ancient Greeks, and Romans; it is known not only in Hinduism and Buddhism. This symbol can be found among Christians and even among Jews in synagogues.

According to legend, Genghis Khan wore on his right hand a ring with the image of a swastika, into which was set a magnificent ruby ​​- the sun stone. In the oldest synagogue in Israel, a Swastika is depicted on the floor, although it is believed that the Jews are almost the only tribe that does not consider the swastika a sacred symbol.

It was unexpected for me to learn that the swastika was used not only by the Aryan peoples. The Indians also knew her North America, and they knew and used it long before the Europeans arrived there. Where did the Navajo Indians get the swastika?

The ancient Aryans imprinted the Kolovrat-swastika on the tusks of mammoths back in the Neolithic. Under the golden Kolovrat on a scarlet banner, Prince Svyatoslav marched against Constantinople and the Khazars. This symbol was used by pagan sorcerers in rituals associated with the ancient Slavic Vedic Faith, and is still embroidered by Vyatka, Kostroma, Arkhangelsk and Vologda needlewomen.

After a period of oblivion, the swastika again became popular in European culture in the 19th century as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. But it's hers modern interpretation, and not its significance in religious cults.

As for the origins of the swastika, we can definitely say that it is very ancient sign, unfortunately, discredited in the 20th century by German fascists. I think that it undoubtedly has Aryan roots and at one time was spread by Aryan tribes throughout the Earth. This probably happened at least 12-15 thousand years ago. Then on Globe there were two civilizations - the Atlanteans (or peoples of the sea) and the Aryans (or peoples of the land). The relationship between them was not at all peaceful. If the Atlanteans influenced different ethnic groups, capturing the sea coasts, where they had numerous fortified cities, and from them interacted with the local population, then the Aryans lived in the interior of the continents, where they could not be greatly disturbed by the Atlanteans.

Plato mentions this when he writes that the ancestors of the ancient Greeks resisted the Atlanteans in the eastern Mediterranean. The Aryan origin of the ancient Greeks is beyond doubt. But the eastern Mediterranean, the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Africa and the Atlantic coast of Europe were probably completely controlled by the Atlanteans.

When Atlantis sank into the depths of the sea, only its colony cities and those Atlanteans and half-breeds of Atlanteans and aborigines who inhabited these colonies survived.

The Aryan civilization probably suffered less during the global catastrophe, especially on the elevated plateaus, where the wave of the catastrophic tsunami ( global flood) did not reach. But the distant descendants of the Atlanteans and Aryans for several millennia forgot about whose symbol was the trident and whose symbol was the swastika, and began to use both. It is also possible that both symbols were used in Atlantis itself before the disaster. Otherwise, how would the swastika get to the Indians of North America?

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Swastika(character "卐" or "卍", स्वस्तिक from स्वस्ति, svasti- greeting, wish of good luck, prosperity) - a sign in the form of an equal-ended cross with ends bent in one of two directions: clockwise or counterclockwise. Being a development of the simplest graphic symbol - the cross, the swastika has been found since the Stone Age (the oldest one is at the Mezinskaya site). Subsequently, the swastika is found, in the form of a separate sign or part of a meander pattern, in the cultures of all continents except Australia.

In the summer of 1920, Adolf Hitler approved the swastika as the political emblem of the NSDAP. From this moment, as the understanding of the civilizational danger of fascism as an ideology and aggressive doctrine expands, the world gradually comes to understand the negative background “sanctified” by this hitherto harmless ancient symbol. Already at the end of the 1920s, Soviet ideology formulated an unambiguously critical attitude towards this (“chosen as a political emblem by German anti-Semitic fascists, who mistakenly consider the swastika the exclusive emblem of the Aryan race”). And after the outbreak of World War II and the treacherous attack of Hitler’s fascists on the USSR, the whole world began to unequivocally associate the swastika only with the Hitler regime and its crimes against humanity.

Hitler and the German fascists placed the swastika in a global civilizational context. Already because of this, its position among the elements of the sign system of humanity, a neutral assessment turns out to be inapplicable to it, and attempts at “moral rehabilitation” of it are perceived as immoral - no matter what counter-arguments are given to this.

In relation to the sign system, as a special, subcortically acting element of world perception, such “newly acquired negativity” is normal. At a more primitive, everyday level, one can point to well-known signs, constructed from one or several fingers, and perceived by others as an axiomatically negative symbol. Any attempts to “justify” a figurine or a single raised finger, to force a rethinking of these figures in the light of certain exceptions sought in prehistory, are doomed to failure due to the persistent unambiguous association that has entered the modern cultural stereotype in relation to these signs.

The swastika and its antagonists in the 20th century

Before the swastika found its place among political symbols, until the beginning of the 20th century, it came to the attention of scientists in two directions. In art history - as an element of a meander pattern (rhombo-meander ornament). In stavrography (from σταυρος tree, cross, And γράφω writing; an auxiliary discipline that studies the history and iconography of the cross) - as an element of the genesis of this fundamental symbol of Christianity. An example of research in the latter direction is given, for example, in the classic article Encyclopedic Dictionary Brockhaus and Efron.

However, in none of these lines of analysis, the swastika by definition had an antagonistic sign; the main cultural antagonism of the era, starting with the fall of Ancient Rome and ending with the New (if not the Newest) time, was reflected by the confrontation of another pair of globalistic symbols - cross(Christianity) and crescent(Islam). At the same time, as of late XIX centuries, the swastika, as a derivative of the cross, did not have an independent meaning as a symbol of any faith or making geopolitically significant claims.

Meanwhile, against the backdrop of the rapid development of Oriental studies, observed in Christian civilization during the second half of the 19th century century, an amateurish public, fed by popular presentations of newly acquired information on ancient history India and its neighboring countries, “discovers”, among others, swastika-like symbols. It is a Buddhist symbol of perfection." manji", "Buddhist cross" (like the Maltese), as well as the "four arms" of the Jains. And although in none of these religions not one of these symbols claims to be the main one (like the cross and the crescent) - nevertheless, comments are beginning to come out from the pen of European (by initial education and culture) writers and compilers, in which the meaning of the swastika-like symbols of the East is obviously exaggerated. This in mass consciousness Europeans are paving the way for a mythologized perception of the swastika as a symbol of some secret, power, magic, etc.

The societies of those countries where, for one reason or another, the crisis of the ruling ideology and/or church is most profoundly infected with this esoteric epidemic are the most affected. The craze for “paganism”, “gypsyism”, collected and falsified samples of “folklore” - all this represents a massive protest against classical Christian values ​​in the form in which they were propagated by clergy with the powerful support of the administrative and legislative resources of the respective countries. And although a certain part of the population, due to their consciousness, took a truly antagonistic position, atheism, the majority, nevertheless, rejected one religious cult in favor of another, or designed for themselves options for their eclectic combination.

Swastika on the hood of Nicholas II's car. Tsarskoe Selo, 1913.

This crisis path of development was also observed in Tsarist Russia, starting with the petty-bourgeois circles of the literary intelligentsia of the “Silver Age” with its exotic range of cultural orientation, and ending with the family last emperor, which - despite its ostentatious adherence to Orthodoxy - in its narrow circle demonstrated weakness both in terms of superstitions and in relation to specific charlatans. Swastika (sometimes Alexandra Fedorovna wrote owl) was one of the empress's favorite non-Christian symbols

In his memoirs, Pierre Gilliard, the teacher of the royal children, recalled: “I then noticed on the wall near one of the windows of their majesties’ room the empress’s favorite sign, the “sovastika,” which she ordered to be depicted everywhere for good luck.” And already in 1913, a swastika adorned the hood of the Russian Tsar’s personal car, causing bewilderment among those who knew that this was by no means the corporate logo of the manufacturer, the Delano-Belleville company. The hypothesis that the Romanov family was thereby secretly promoting the new state symbol that they had prepared for Russia - on the one hand, seems implausible: after all, the “God-bearing people” have become accustomed to worshiping a different cross for 900 years. True, in Courland the Latvian riflemen are still tsarist army already in 1915 they picked up this symbol on their banners.

But on the other hand, there is the same “Sovereign” icon, newly revealed by the clergy in the first days after the abdication of the Tsar, i.e. the first icon of Republican Russia: on it a swastika is drawn into the headdress of the Mother of God! And immediately after this, a few months later, on the Kerenkas newly released into circulation, the same swastika from the “Sovereign” icon (or the hood of Nicholas II’s car?) seemed to replace the imperial regalia that had disappeared from the chest of the imperial eagle.

One way or another, these incidents with the appearance of the swastika among the symbols used in tsarist Russia and in the first years after its collapse did not manage to create a significant precedent on the basis of which it would be possible to draw far-reaching conclusions and build concepts that would “rehabilitate” the swastika in perception of the peoples of the Russian Empire and, later, the USSR. Only a few years passed, and all these funny precedents were pushed aside by the swastika in its German-fascist version.

The main political competitor of the NSDAP in the political arena of the Weimar Republic are the German communists, and thus, translated into the language of political symbols, the antagonist of the swastika becomes the global symbol of social democracy and communists, hammer and sickle. 8 years after coming to power, Hitler unleashes a war with the USSR, and the concept of “fascist” (symbolized by the swastika) becomes one of the extreme expressions of the category “anti-Soviet”. The hoisting of the Victory Banner with a hammer and sickle over the Reichstag draws a symbolic line under this historical confrontation.

Fascism, which collapsed in 1945 primarily due to the uncompromising struggle of peoples Soviet Union with the German invaders, was the most dangerous, but not the only representative of anti-Soviet forces. Solving their own problems of inter-imperialist rivalry, Germany’s largest geopolitical rivals only by chance found themselves in the “same trenches” with the Soviet Union - back in 1938, entering into the Munich Agreement with Hitler, they hoped to strengthen his position in a future war against the USSR, in which the British imperialists and France were supposed to be only outside observers.

By delaying the opening of the “second front” and not allowing any excessive strengthening of the USSR’s production potential during the course of military supplies under Lend-Lease, at the end of the Second World War, the imperialist powers almost immediately transferred the USSR’s relations to the level of balancing between war and peace. However, given that the course and outcome of the Second World War, as well as the contribution of the USSR to the victory over fascism, was generally known, anti-Soviet propaganda and the political course of the imperialist states were forced to be accompanied by a condemnation of fascism (with a certain connivance to neo-fascism). That is, while numerous contemporaries and participants in the war were still alive, the concepts of “anti-Sovietism” and “fascism” were divorced.

As generations of contemporaries of the war against fascism died out, a new layer gradually formed in the ranks of anti-Soviet activists within the USSR itself, with powerful information and propaganda support from anti-Soviet centers in the West. New generations of anti-Sovietists, due to their rejection of any “official” history, readily accepted new historiographical schemes “thrown in” by foreign analysts. In these schemes, contrary to historical facts, was carried out - through manipulative constructions - in preparation for proving the alleged identity of two antagonistic subjects of history - Hitler's Germany and the Soviet Union - and their ideologies - National Socialism and (proletarian) internationalism.

Another direction of destructive influence on the mass perception of the phenomenon of fascism, which developed as a result of the degeneration of ideological and educational work under Gorbachev and Yakovlev, appealed to those whose psychotype was favorable for the development of the “cult” strong hand" It should be noted that the very concept of “atrocities of the fascist occupiers” (perversely perceived by these types of anti-Soviet extras as a manifestation of force) objectively became every year more and more literary and abstract. And this type of manipulation would not have been so successful if not for the events of 1973 in Chile, when the most disgusting and inhumane manifestations of fascism again became a modern reality.

Hence, it no longer seems accidental that it was the Chilean junta and even the personality of Pinochet that began to be presented during the years of perestroika with the opposite sign - as an example of positive action. The establishment of fascist practice in the reality of post-Soviet Russia - when in October 1993, riot police literally echoed the atrocities of their fascist predecessors in Chile, and created an analogue of the stadium as a place of mass torture, abuse and murder of civilians. The “amnesty” announced after this to the perpetrators left unpunished a precedent for actions that were confusingly similar to fascist ones, and thereby indirectly inspired various extremist forces to rely on the most violent, bloodiest and inhumane methods of solving the problems of capitalist existence modern Russia. Hence the appearance of the swastika or its modified versions in the symbolism of some movements does not seem strange.

No matter how strange it may sound at first, the most dear to Russian people is the ancient pagan symbol, colloquially called " Swastika". Anyone who thinks that the Swastika is a purely fascist symbol is deeply mistaken. Many people associate the Swastika with fascism and Hitler. This has been methodically hammered into people's heads for the last 60 years. And indeed, many sincerely believe that this is so. But this is fundamentally wrong.

The population of Europe and the USA associates this symbol primarily with the Third Reich and the ideology of Nazism. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia wrote about this: “Hitler and the German fascists made the swastika their emblem. Since then, it has become a symbol of barbarism and misanthropy, inextricably linked with fascism.”. The West is more tolerant of the Swastika, but the established opinion about the depravity of the Swastika has been hammered into a lot of people’s heads.

IN Lately It is fashionable to talk about the “dark secrets” hidden behind the Swastika. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Swastika really played an important role in symbolism secret societies. But the interest of such societies in the Swastika was not the reason for its popularity, but precisely the consequence. Some "researchers" say that the Swastika is a Masonic symbol. This is also fundamentally wrong.

The swastika is a very ancient symbol, which is a common symbol for the peoples of different states. You can meet her in different countries, often very distant from each other. The swastika is not only an eastern symbol, as some researchers believe. It is distributed over a very wide area. The swastika was found in Malta, in Tibet, in Russia, in Germany, in China, in Japan, on the island of Crete, in the ancient states of the Celts, in India, in Greece, in Egypt, in Scandinavia, in Rome, among the Aztecs, on the fabrics of times Incas, and in other states.

The liquidocracy hates the Swastika and calls it a “fascist” sign. Inflating the myth of the so-called “threat of Russian fascism,” Jewish democrats are strenuously trying to ban the Swastika by law ("display of fascist paraphernalia or symbols"). This is a scam! Swastika much older than Hitler. She is many thousands of years older than him and, naturally, was not invented by him.

The Jewish universal cry about the prohibition of the Swastika can be heard to this day. The terry Jew Luzhkov (real name is Katz) and the no less terry Jew Kiriyenko (real name is Izraitel) actively opposed the Swastika. They really want to confiscate all the images of the Swastika and stick on as many of their Jewish stars of David and Solomon as possible, which is what Luzhkov did by building the Cathedral of Christ the “Savior” with Jewish Magendovids on the crosses, using stolen money from our taxes.

By the way, even the Jews themselves tried to master the Swastika. Before World War II, a swastika mosaic decorated a synagogue in Hartford (Connecticut, USA). The Jews used the left-sided collective (explanations will be given below) Swastika. But it was used in isolated cases. Jews are forbidden to bow to the Sun. Only in Judaism is sun worship a terrible sin.

From ancient legends it is known that The swastika was given to people by the gods. When our Forefathers used runes, the word SWASTIKA translated as COME FROM HEAVEN, THE MOVEMENT OF HEAVEN. Because rune NVA meant heaven WITH- direction rune, rune TIKA- movement, coming, flow. The word TICK still exists, that is, to run. Words such as MYSTIC, ArkTIKA are formed from the same rune. Ancient religions describe it as a cluster of signs of good luck. The swastika is a very capacious and multifaceted symbol. One of the varieties of this symbol is a cross with curved ends directed clockwise or counterclockwise. The swastika gives the impression of eternal rotation.

The earliest description of the Swastika that has reached us is in Sanskrit. "Suasti" in Sanskrit means: SU- beautiful, kind and ASTI- to be, that is "BE KIND!" or "BE GREAT!" .

Swastika is a concept that is too capacious and generalized. This word should be understood not as one symbol, but as a whole group of symbols - crosses with ends bent to the left and right (Swastika is also called gamma cross, because 4 letters " G"converge at one point). In ancient times, each swastika symbol had its own name, its own meaning and its own protective function. In the Russian language, there are still 144 (!) names for various types of Swastika. This is exactly how many of them were counted by the Omsk author V. N. Yanvarsky. For example: Swastika, Posolon, Kolovrat, Holy Gift, Swaor, Solntsevrat, Agni, Fash, Mara, England, Solar Cross, Solard, Collard, Vedara, Svetolet, Fern Flower, Perunov Light, Swati, Race, Bogovnik, Svarozhich, Svyatoch, Yarovrat, Odolen-Grass, Rodimich, Charovrat and other names.

In general, Swastika is the fundamental principle of the essence of existence and peace for all Aryan peoples, and not only Aryans. Among the pagans, the Swastika personifies Yarilo - the Sun, light, the change of seasons. Worship and veneration of the Swastika primarily meant worship of the Sun. The swastika symbolizes the Sun. The sun is the source of life on Earth. Worship of light and primary fire is worship of the source of life. And this is a great cleansing and protecting power. That's why the Jews - the damn people - hate her so much. She illuminates all their dirty and dark deeds.

The swastika and some other signs (runes, for example) are archetypes. That is, by their appearance they awaken in a person irresistible currents originating from the collective unconscious, accumulated in the “archives” of thousands of years of experience. Every soul carries these lines of force within itself from birth.

More than rational Latins, Slavs and Germans, people of a stormy character, are sensitive to the influence of these symbols. Unknown author treatise on symbols, writes: “A symbol is not logical... It is a vital current, an instinctive recognition. It is the experience of a subject, which is born from a complex and unpredictable set of countless connections that weave his future, as well as the future of the entire universe to which he belongs and from which he draws all recognition.”.

In theory, the Swastika is a polar sign. It denotes circular motion around its own axis or fixed point. In a particular case, it has a double meaning. Firstly, when it is applied to a star point around which the sky moves. As Laplace said: "The sky seems to revolve on two fixed points, which for this reason are called the celestial poles". Secondly, when the pole is considered in the earthly dimension, it becomes the geometric location from which the direction of rotation of the earth arises. His place is always the Arctic continent or perhaps Antarctica.

Depending on the rotation and the direction of the curved ends, the Swastika can be LEFT HAND And RIGHT HAND. It is very unfortunate that even intelligent researchers confuse the left-handed and right-handed Swastika.

Determining the direction of the rays of the Swastika and its rotation is very easy. It is enough to give an analogy. Let's imagine the Sun. The Sun has prominences - plasma emissions. They rotate in the same direction as the Sun itself, as if “catching up” with it by inertia. But the prominences “look” in the opposite direction from the rotation of the Sun. So, in which direction the Swastika rotates, that’s what it’s called.

The left-handed Swastika has a name KOLOVRAT. This is a symbol rising sun, a symbol of the victory of Light over Darkness and Life over Death, a symbol of the harvest (the mower waves his scythe right hand from right to left).

The right-handed Swastika has a name SALON- a symbol of the setting Sun, a symbol of the completion of creative work, a symbol of sowing (the sower throws grains with his right hand from left to right).

Today, when many people hear the word “swastika,” they immediately think of Adolf Hitler, concentration camps, and the horrors of World War II. But, in fact, this symbol appeared even before new era and has very rich history. It has become widespread in Slavic culture, where many of its modifications existed. A synonym for the word “swastika” was the concept “solar”, that is, solar. Were there any differences in the swastika of the Slavs and the Nazis? And, if so, what were they expressed in?

First, let's remember what a swastika looks like. This is a cross, each of the four ends of which bends at right angles. Moreover, all angles are directed in one direction: to the right or to the left. Looking at such a sign, one gets the feeling of its rotation. There are opinions that the main difference between the Slavic and fascist swastikas lies in the direction of this very rotation. For the Germans, this is right-hand traffic (clockwise), and for our ancestors it is left-hand traffic (counterclockwise). But this is not all that distinguishes the swastika of Aryans and Aryans.

Another important distinguishing feature is the constancy of color and shape of the Fuhrer’s army badge. The lines of their swastika are quite wide, absolutely straight, and black. The underlying background is a white circle on a red canvas.

What about the Slavic swastika? Firstly, as already mentioned, there are many swastika signs that differ in shape. The basis of each symbol, of course, is a cross with right angles at the ends. But the cross may not have four ends, but six or even eight. Additional elements may appear on its lines, including smooth, rounded lines.

Secondly, the color of the swastika signs. There is also diversity here, but not so pronounced. The predominant symbol is red on a white background. The red color was not chosen by chance. After all, he was the personification of the sun among the Slavs. But there are both blue and yellow colors on some of the signs. Thirdly, the direction of movement. It was said earlier that among the Slavs it is the opposite of fascist. However, this is not quite true. We find both right-handed swastikas among the Slavs and left-handed ones.

We examined only the external distinctive attributes of the swastika of the Slavs and the swastika of the Nazis. But much more important facts are the following:

• Approximate time of appearance of the sign.
• The meaning that was given to it.
• Where and under what conditions was this symbol used?

Let's start with the Slavic swastika

It is difficult to name the time when it appeared among the Slavs. But, for example, among the Scythians, it was recorded in the fourth millennium BC. And since a little later the Slavs began to stand out from the Indo-European community, then, for sure, they were already used by them at that time (third-second millennium BC). Moreover, among the Proto-Slavs they were fundamental ornaments.

Swastika signs abounded in the everyday life of the Slavs. And therefore one cannot attribute the same meaning to all of them. In fact, each symbol was individual and carried its own meaning. By the way, the swastika could be either an independent sign or part of a more complex one (most often it was located in the center). Here are the main meanings of Slavic swastika (solar symbols):

• Sacred and Sacrificial fire.
• Ancient wisdom.
• Home.
• Unity of the Family.
• Spiritual development, self-improvement.
• Patronage of the gods in wisdom and justice.
• In the sign of Valkikria, it is a talisman of wisdom, honor, nobility, and justice.

That is, in general, we can say that the meaning of the swastika was somehow sublime, spiritually high, noble.

Archaeological excavations have given us a lot of valuable information. It turned out that in ancient times the Slavs applied similar signs to their weapons, embroidered them on suits (clothing) and textile accessories (towels, towels), and carved them on elements of their homes and household items (dishes, spinning wheels and other wooden utensils). They did all this mainly for the purpose of protection, in order to protect themselves and their home from evil forces, from grief, from fire, from evil eye. After all, the ancient Slavs were very superstitious in this regard. And with such protection we felt much more secure and confident. Even the mounds and settlements of the ancient Slavs could have a swastika shape. At the same time, the ends of the cross symbolized a certain direction of the world.

Fascist swastika

• Adolf Hitler himself adopted this sign as a symbol of the National Socialist movement. But we know that he was not the one who came up with it. In general, the swastika was used by other nationalist groups in Germany even before the emergence of the National Socialist German workers' party. Therefore, let’s take the time of appearance as the beginning of the twentieth century.

Interesting fact: the person who suggested that Hitler take the swastika as a symbol initially presented a left-handed cross. But the Fuhrer insisted on replacing it with a right-hand one.

• The meaning of the swastika among the Nazis is diametrically opposed to that of the Slavs. According to one version, it meant the purity of German blood. Hitler himself said that the black cross itself symbolizes the struggle for the victory of the Aryan race, creative work. In general, the Fuhrer considered the swastika an ancient anti-Semitic sign. In his book he writes that the white circle is national idea, red rectangle - the social idea of ​​the Nazi movement.
• Where was it used? fascist swastika? Firstly, on the legendary flag of the Third Reich. Secondly, the military had it on their belt buckles, as a patch on the sleeve. Thirdly, the swastika “decorated” official buildings and occupied territories. In general, it could be on any fascist attributes, but these were the most common.

Thus, the swastika of the Slavs and the swastika of the Nazis have enormous differences. This is expressed not only in external features, but also in semantic ones. If among the Slavs this sign personified something good, noble, and lofty, then among the Nazis it was a truly Nazi sign. Therefore, when you hear something about a swastika, you shouldn’t immediately think about fascism. After all Slavic swastika was lighter, more humane, more beautiful.