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class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.4</span> <span>Prevalence in southern Asia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Prevalence_in_southern_Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spread_to_eastern_Asia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spread_to_eastern_Asia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2.5</span> <span>Spread to eastern Asia</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spread_to_eastern_Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Classical_Europe" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Classical_Europe"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Classical Europe</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Classical_Europe-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Medieval_and_early_modern_Europe" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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id="toc-Use_in_Nazism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Use_in_Nazism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5.1</span> <span>Use in Nazism</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Use_in_Nazism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Use_by_the_Allies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Use_by_the_Allies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5.2</span> <span>Use by the Allies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Use_by_the_Allies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Americas" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Americas"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>Americas</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Americas-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Africa" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> 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class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Use by neo-Nazis</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Use_by_neo-Nazis-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Western_misinterpretation_of_Asian_use" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Western_misinterpretation_of_Asian_use"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Western misinterpretation of Asian use</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Western_misinterpretation_of_Asian_use-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Swastika_as_distinct_from_Hakenkreuz_debate" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Swastika_as_distinct_from_Hakenkreuz_debate"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3.1</span> <span>Swastika as distinct from <i>Hakenkreuz</i> debate</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Swastika_as_distinct_from_Hakenkreuz_debate-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> 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interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fylf%C5%8Dt" title="Fylfōt – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Fylfōt" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ænglisc</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar mw-list-item"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D9%81" title="صليب معقوف – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="صليب معقوف" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE" title="স্বস্তিকা – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="স্বস্তিকা" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C4%81n-j%C4%AB-b%C3%BBn" title="Bān-jī-bûn – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Bān-jī-bûn" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Свастыка – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Свастыка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Свастыка – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Свастыка" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Свастика – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Свастика" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%82%E0%BD%A1%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%91%E0%BE%B2%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%84%E0%BC%8B%E0%BC%8D" title="གཡུང་དྲུང་། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="གཡུང་དྲུང་།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Хас – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Хас" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Буряад</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esv%C3%A0stica" title="Esvàstica – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Esvàstica" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastica" title="Swastica – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Swastica" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika" title="Swastika – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Swastika" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika" title="Swastika – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Swastika" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dolnoserbski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%B2%CE%AC%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B1" title="Σβάστικα – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σβάστικα" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esv%C3%A1stica" title="Esvástica – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Esvástica" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastiko" title="Svastiko – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Svastiko" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esbastika" title="Esbastika – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Esbastika" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7" title="سواستیکا – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="سواستیکا" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svaistice" title="Svaistice – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Svaistice" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esv%C3%A1stica" title="Esvástica – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Esvástica" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B5%E0%AA%B8%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%A4%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%95" title="સ્વસ્તિક – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="સ્વસ્તિક" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xal mw-list-item"><a href="https://xal.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D2%AF%D2%A3%D1%82%D0%BD" title="Лүңтн – Kalmyk" lang="xal" hreflang="xal" data-title="Лүңтн" data-language-autonym="Хальмг" data-language-local-name="Kalmyk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Хальмг</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%8C%EC%9E%90%EB%AC%B8" title="만자문 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="만자문" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%AB%D5%AF%D5%A1" title="Սվաստիկա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սվաստիկա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95" title="स्वस्तिक – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="स्वस्तिक" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika" title="Swastika – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Swastika" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakakross" title="Hakakross – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Hakakross" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastica" title="Svastica – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Svastica" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6%D7%9C%D7%91_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%A1" title="צלב קרס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="צלב קרס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A4%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95" title="ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿಕ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿಕ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%90" title="სვასტიკა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სვასტიკა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Свастика – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Свастика" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crux_gammata" title="Crux gammata – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Crux gammata" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastega" title="Svastega – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Svastega" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lombard</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szvasztika" title="Szvasztika – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Szvasztika" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95" title="स्वस्तिक – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="स्वस्तिक" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मैथिली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0" title="Свастика – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Свастика" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95" title="स्वस्तिक – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="स्वस्तिक" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%90" title="სვასტიკა – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="სვასტიკა" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A8_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%88%D9%81" title="الصليب المعقوف – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الصليب المعقوف" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika" title="Swastika – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Swastika" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8C%D0%B7%D1%8E%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B0" title="Шиньзюлма – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Шиньзюлма" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Мокшень</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Хас – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Хас" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Монгол</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_(symbool)" title="Swastika (symbool) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Swastika (symbool)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95" title="स्वस्तिक – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="स्वस्तिक" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8D" title="卍 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="卍" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakekors" title="Hakekors – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Hakekors" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastika" title="Svastika – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Svastika" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov mw-list-item"><a href="https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svastike" title="Svastike – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov" data-title="Svastike" data-language-autonym="Novial" data-language-local-name="Novial" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Novial</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esvastica" title="Esvastica – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Esvastica" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-or mw-list-item"><a href="https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%B1%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A4%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95" title="ସ୍ୱସ୍ତିକ – Odia" lang="or" hreflang="or" data-title="ସ୍ୱସ୍ତିକ" data-language-autonym="ଓଡ଼ିଆ" data-language-local-name="Odia" 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title="Kolovrat (symbol)">Kolovrat (symbol)</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Ancient Eurasian icon and later Nazi symbol</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Swastika_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Swastika (disambiguation)">Swastika (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Four-swastika_collage_(transparent).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Four-swastika_collage_%28transparent%29.png/220px-Four-swastika_collage_%28transparent%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Four-swastika_collage_%28transparent%29.png/330px-Four-swastika_collage_%28transparent%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Four-swastika_collage_%28transparent%29.png/440px-Four-swastika_collage_%28transparent%29.png 2x" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="4096" /></a><figcaption>The swastika is a symbol with many styles and meanings and can be found in many cultures.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_NSDAP_(1920%E2%80%931945,_1-1).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%2C_1-1%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%2C_1-1%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%2C_1-1%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%2C_1-1%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%2C_1-1%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%2C_1-1%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="#Association_with_Nazism">appropriation</a> of the swastika by the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> is the most recognisable modern use of the symbol in the Western world.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>swastika</b> (<b>卐</b> or <b>卍</b>) is a symbol used in various <a href="/wiki/Eurasia" title="Eurasia">Eurasian</a> religions and cultures, and it is also seen in some <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Africa" title="Indigenous peoples of Africa">African</a> and <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" title="Indigenous peoples of the Americas">American</a> ones. In the Western world, it is more widely recognized as a symbol of the German <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> who <a href="/wiki/Cultural_appropriation" title="Cultural appropriation">appropriated</a> it for their party insignia starting in the early 20th century. The appropriation continues with its use by <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazism" title="Neo-Nazism">neo-Nazis</a> around the world.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_2014_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_2014-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Roden_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Olson_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Olson-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The swastika was and continues to be used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality in <a href="/wiki/Indian_religions" title="Indian religions">Indian religions</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sullivan2001p216_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sullivan2001p216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-snodgrass82_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snodgrass82-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Cort_2001_17_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cort_2001_17-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-p.97_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p.97-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It generally takes the form of a <a href="/wiki/Cross" title="Cross">cross</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>A<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the arms of which are of equal length and perpendicular to the adjacent arms, each bent midway at a right angle.<sup id="cite_ref-MigSym_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigSym-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CambDict_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CambDict-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The word <i>swastika</i> comes from <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskrit language">Sanskrit</a>: <span lang="sa"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95#Sanskrit" class="extiw" title="wikt:स्वस्तिक">स्वस्तिक</a></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Sanskrit" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Sanskrit">romanized</a>:&#160;</small><span title="Sanskrit-language romanization"><i lang="sa-Latn">svastika</i></span>, meaning 'conducive to well-being'.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-etymology_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-etymology-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, the right-facing symbol (clockwise)&#160;(<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">卐</span>) is called <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">swastika</i></span>, symbolizing <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Surya" title="Surya">surya</a></i></span> ('sun'), prosperity and good luck, while the left-facing symbol (counter-clockwise)&#160;(<span class="nounderlines" style="border: 1px solid var(--border-color-muted,#ddd); color: var(--color-base); background-color: var( --background-color-neutral-subtle, #fdfdfd); padding: 1px 1px;">卍</span>) is called <b><span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">sauvastika</i></span></b>, symbolising night or <a href="/wiki/Tantra" title="Tantra">tantric</a> aspects of <a href="/wiki/Kali" title="Kali">Kali</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Jain_symbols" title="Jain symbols">Jain symbolism</a>, it represents <a href="/wiki/Suparshvanatha" title="Suparshvanatha">Suparshvanatha</a>&#160;&#8211;&#32;the seventh of 24 <a href="/wiki/Tirthankara" title="Tirthankara">Tirthankaras</a> (<a href="/wiki/Spiritual_teacher" class="mw-redirect" title="Spiritual teacher">spiritual teachers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Salvation" title="Salvation">saviours</a>), while in <a href="/wiki/Buddhist_symbols" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddhist symbols">Buddhist symbolism</a> it represents the auspicious footprints of the <a href="/wiki/Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddha">Buddha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-silverblatt109_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-silverblatt109-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the different <a href="/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages">Indo-European</a> traditions, the swastika symbolises <a href="/wiki/Fire" title="Fire">fire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lightning" title="Lightning">lightning</a> bolts, and the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">sun</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Greg_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Greg-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The symbol is found in the archaeological remains of the <a href="/wiki/Indus_Valley_civilisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Indus Valley civilisation">Indus Valley civilisation</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Samarra_culture" title="Samarra culture">Samarra</a>, as well as in early <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christian_art" title="Christian art">Christian artwork</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although used for the first time as a symbol of international antisemitism by far-right Romanian politician <a href="/wiki/A._C._Cuza" title="A. C. Cuza">A. C. Cuza</a> prior to <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> it was <a href="/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in_the_early_20th_century" title="Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century">a symbol of auspiciousness and good luck for most of the Western world</a> until the 1930s,<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_2014_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_2014-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> when the German Nazi Party adopted the swastika as an emblem of the <a href="/wiki/Aryan_race" title="Aryan race">Aryan race</a>. As a result of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>, in the West it continues to be strongly associated with <a href="/wiki/Nazism" title="Nazism">Nazism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemitism</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-holocaust2009_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holocaust2009-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wiener463_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wiener463-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacism</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or simply <a href="/wiki/Evil" title="Evil">evil</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As a consequence, its use in some countries, <a href="/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a" title="Strafgesetzbuch section 86a">including Germany</a>, is <a href="/wiki/Bans_on_Nazi_symbols" title="Bans on Nazi symbols">prohibited by law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>B<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the swastika remains a symbol of good luck and prosperity in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain countries such as Nepal, India, Thailand, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, China and Japan, and carries various other meanings for peoples around the world, such as the <a href="/wiki/Akan_people" title="Akan people">Akan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hopi" title="Hopi">Hopi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Navajo" title="Navajo">Navajo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Tlingit" title="Tlingit">Tlingit</a> peoples. It is also commonly used in Hindu marriage ceremonies and <a href="/wiki/Divali" class="mw-redirect" title="Divali">Dipavali</a> celebrations. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology_and_nomenclature">Etymology and nomenclature</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Snoldelevsunwheel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Snoldelevsunwheel.jpg/220px-Snoldelevsunwheel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Snoldelevsunwheel.jpg/330px-Snoldelevsunwheel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Snoldelevsunwheel.jpg/440px-Snoldelevsunwheel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="563" /></a><figcaption>Drawing of a swastika on the <a href="/wiki/Snoldelev_Stone" title="Snoldelev Stone">Snoldelev Stone</a> found in <a href="/wiki/Rams%C3%B8" title="Ramsø">Ramsø</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Denmark</a> (9th century)</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:30em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>With well-being (<b>swasti</b>) we would follow along our path, like the Sun and the Moon. May we meet up with one who gives in return, who does not smite (harm), with one who knows. </p> </blockquote> <p style="padding-bottom: 0;"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">— The <a href="/wiki/Rigveda" title="Rigveda">Rigveda</a> V.52.15<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></cite></p> </div> <p>The word <i>swastika</i> is derived from the Sanskrit root <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">swasti</i></span>, which is composed of <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">su</i></span> 'good, well' and <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">asti</i></span> 'is; it is; there is'.<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann347_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann347-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The word <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">swasti</i></span> occurs frequently in the <a href="/wiki/Vedas" title="Vedas">Vedas</a> as well as in classical literature, meaning 'health, luck, success, prosperity', and it was commonly used as a greeting.<sup id="cite_ref-M-W_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-M-W-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The final <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">ka</i></span> is a common suffix that could have multiple meanings.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Monier-Williams" class="mw-redirect" title="Monier-Williams">Monier-Williams</a>, a majority of scholars consider the swastika to originally be a <a href="/wiki/Solar_symbol" title="Solar symbol">solar symbol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-M-W_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-M-W-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The sign implies well-being, something fortunate, lucky, or auspicious.<sup id="cite_ref-M-W_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-M-W-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is alternatively spelled in contemporary texts as <i>svastika</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and other spellings were occasionally used in the 19th and early 20th century, such as <i>suastika</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was derived from the <a href="/wiki/Sanskrit" title="Sanskrit">Sanskrit</a> term (<a href="/wiki/Devanagari" title="Devanagari">Devanagari</a> <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><span lang="sa"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95" class="extiw" title="wikt:स्वस्तिक">स्वस्तिक</a></span></span>), which transliterates to <i><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">svastika</i></span></i> under the commonly used <a href="/wiki/International_Alphabet_of_Sanskrit_Transliteration" title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration">IAST transliteration system</a>, but is pronounced closer to <i>swastika</i> when letters are used with their English values. </p><p>The earliest known use of the word swastika is in <a href="/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini" title="Pāṇini">Pāṇini</a>'s <a href="/wiki/A%E1%B9%A3%E1%B9%AD%C4%81dhy%C4%81y%C4%AB" title="Aṣṭādhyāyī">Aṣṭādhyāyī</a>, which uses it to explain one of the Sanskrit grammar rules, in the context of a type of identifying mark on a cow's ear.<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann347_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann347-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most scholarship suggests that Pāṇini lived in or before the 4th century BCE,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> possibly in 6th or 5th century BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>An important early use of the word <i>swastika</i> in a European text was in 1871 with the publications of <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann" title="Heinrich Schliemann">Heinrich Schliemann</a>, who discovered more than 1,800 ancient samples of swastika symbols and variants thereof while digging the <a href="/wiki/Hisarlik" class="mw-redirect" title="Hisarlik">Hisarlik</a> mound near the Aegean Sea coast for the history of Troy. Schliemann linked his findings to the Sanskrit <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">swastika</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-boissoneaultsm_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-boissoneaultsm-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMees200857–58_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMees200857–58-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the 19th century, the term <i>swastika</i> was adopted into the English lexicon,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> replacing the previous <i>gammadion</i> from Greek <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">γαμμάδιον</span></span>. In 1878, Irish scholar <a href="/wiki/Charles_Graves_(bishop)" title="Charles Graves (bishop)">Charles Graves</a> used <i>swastika</i> as the common English name for the symbol, after defining it as equivalent to the French term <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">croix gammée</i></span>&#160;&#8211;&#32;a cross with arms shaped like the Greek letter <a href="/wiki/Gamma" title="Gamma">gamma</a> (Γ).<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Shortly thereafter, British antiquarians <a href="/wiki/Edward_Thomas_(antiquarian)" title="Edward Thomas (antiquarian)">Edward Thomas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Robert_Sewell_(historian)" title="Robert Sewell (historian)">Robert Sewell</a> separately published their studies about the symbol, using <i>swastika</i> as the common English term.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The concept of a "reversed" swastika was probably first made among European scholars by <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Burnouf" title="Eugène Burnouf">Eugène Burnouf</a> in 1852 and taken up by <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann" title="Heinrich Schliemann">Schliemann</a> in <i>Ilios</i> (1880), based on a letter from <a href="/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller" title="Max Müller">Max Müller</a> that quotes Burnouf. The term <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">sauwastika</i></span> is used in the sense of 'backward swastika' by <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Goblet_d%27Alviella" title="Eugène Goblet d&#39;Alviella">Eugène Goblet d'Alviella</a> (1894): "In India it [the <i>gammadion</i>] bears the name of <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">swastika</i></span>, when its arms are bent towards the right, and <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn">sauwastika</i></span> when they are turned in the other direction."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other names for the symbol include: </p> <ul><li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">tetragammadion</i></span> (Greek: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">τετραγαμμάδιον</span></span>) or <i>cross gammadion</i> (<a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">crux gammata</i>; French: <span title="Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text"><i lang="fro">croix gammée</i></span>), as each arm resembles the Greek letter Γ (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Gamma" title="Gamma">gamma</a></i></span>)<sup id="cite_ref-MigSym_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigSym-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>hooked cross</i> (German: <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Hakenkreuz</i></span>), <i>angled cross</i> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Winkelkreuz</i></span>), or <i>crooked cross</i> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Krummkreuz</i></span>)</li> <li><i>cross cramponned</i>, <i>cramponnée</i>, or <i>cramponny</i> in heraldry, as each arm resembles a <a href="/wiki/Crampon_(heraldry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Crampon (heraldry)">crampon</a> or angle-iron (German: <i lang="de">Winkelmaßkreuz</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fylfot" title="Fylfot">fylfot</a></i>, chiefly in heraldry and architecture</li> <li><span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">tetraskelion</i></span> (Greek: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">τετρασκέλιον</span></span>), literally meaning 'four-legged', especially when composed of four conjoined legs (compare <a href="/wiki/Triskelion" title="Triskelion">triskelion</a>/triskele [Greek: <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">τρισκέλιον</span></span>])<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li><span title="Latvian-language text"><i lang="lv"><a href="/wiki/Ugunskrusts" title="Ugunskrusts">ugunskrusts</a></i></span> (Latvian for 'fire cross, cross of fire"; other names&#160;&#8211;&#32; <span title="Latvian-language text"><i lang="lv">pērkonkrusts</i></span> ('cross of thunder', 'thunder cross'), cross of <a href="/wiki/Perun" title="Perun">Perun</a> or of <a href="/wiki/Perk%C5%ABnas" title="Perkūnas">Perkūnas</a>), cross of branches, cross of <a href="/wiki/Laima" title="Laima">Laima</a>)</li> <li><i>whirling logs</i> (Navajo): can denote abundance, prosperity, healing, and luck<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>In various European languages, it is known as the <i><a href="/wiki/Fylfot" title="Fylfot">fylfot</a></i>, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">gammadion</i></span>, <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn">tetraskelion</i></span>, or <span title="Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text"><i lang="fro">cross cramponnée</i></span> (a term in Anglo-Norman <a href="/wiki/Heraldry" title="Heraldry">heraldry</a>); German: <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Hakenkreuz</i></span>; French: <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">croix gammée</i></span>; Italian: <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it">croce uncinata</i></span>; <a href="/wiki/Latvian_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latvian Language">Latvian</a>: <span title="Latvian-language text"><i lang="lv"><a href="/wiki/Ugunskrusts" title="Ugunskrusts">ugunskrusts</a></i></span>. In <a href="/wiki/Mongolian_Language" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongolian Language">Mongolian</a> it is called [хас] <span style="color:#d33">Error: {{Lang}}: Non-latn text/Latn script subtag mismatch (<a href="/wiki/Category:Lang_and_lang-xx_template_errors" title="Category:Lang and lang-xx template errors">help</a>)</span> (<span title="Mongolian-language text"><i lang="mn-Latn">khas</i></span>) and mainly used in seals. In Chinese it is called 卍字 (<span title="Mandarin Chinese-language text"><i lang="cmn-Latn">wànzì</i></span>), pronounced <span title="Japanese-language text"><i lang="ja-Latn">manji</i></span> in Japanese, <span title="Korean-language text"><i lang="ko-Latn">manja</i></span> (만자) in Korean and <span title="Vietnamese-language text"><i lang="vi">vạn tự</i></span> or <span title="Vietnamese-language text"><i lang="vi">chữ vạn</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language">Vietnamese</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Baltistan" title="Baltistan">Balti</a>/<a href="/wiki/Tibetic_languages" title="Tibetic languages">Tibetan</a> language it is called <span title="Balti-language text"><i lang="bft-Latn">yung drung</i></span>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Right: the right-facing swastika appears commonly in <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Sri Lankan Buddhism">Sri Lankan Buddhism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-John_Powers_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_Powers-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div></div></div></div> <p>All swastikas are bent crosses based on a <a href="/wiki/Chiral" class="mw-redirect" title="Chiral">chiral</a> symmetry, but they appear with different <a href="/wiki/Geometry" title="Geometry">geometric</a> details: as compact crosses with short legs, as crosses with large arms and as motifs in a pattern of unbroken lines. Chirality describes an absence of <a href="/wiki/Reflective_symmetry" class="mw-redirect" title="Reflective symmetry">reflective symmetry</a>, with the existence of two versions that are <a href="/wiki/Mirror_image" title="Mirror image">mirror images</a> of each other. The mirror-image forms are typically described as left-facing or left-hand (卍) and right-facing or right-hand (卐). </p><p>The compact swastika can be seen as a chiral irregular <a href="/wiki/Icosagon" title="Icosagon">icosagon</a> (20-sided <a href="/wiki/Polygon" title="Polygon">polygon</a>) with fourfold (90°) <a href="/wiki/Rotational_symmetry" title="Rotational symmetry">rotational symmetry</a>. Such a swastika proportioned on a 5<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>×<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>5 square grid and with the broken portions of its legs shortened by one unit can <a href="/wiki/Tessellation" title="Tessellation">tile the plane</a> by <a href="/wiki/Translation_(geometry)" title="Translation (geometry)">translation</a> alone. The main Nazi flag swastika used a 5<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>×<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>5 diagonal grid, but with the legs unshortened.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Written_characters">Written characters</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:192px;max-width:192px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="margin-right:5px;width:92px;max-width:92px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cangjie_NX.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Cangjie_NX.svg/90px-Cangjie_NX.svg.png" decoding="async" width="90" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Cangjie_NX.svg/135px-Cangjie_NX.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Cangjie_NX.svg/180px-Cangjie_NX.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:92px;max-width:92px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Cangjie_VX.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Cangjie_VX.svg/90px-Cangjie_VX.svg.png" decoding="async" width="90" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Cangjie_VX.svg/135px-Cangjie_VX.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/Cangjie_VX.svg/180px-Cangjie_VX.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="640" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">卍 and 卐 characters.</div></div></div></div> <p>The swastika was adopted as a standard character in <a href="/wiki/Written_Chinese" title="Written Chinese">Chinese</a>, "<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1094882035">.mw-parser-output .script-Cprt{font-size:1.25em;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Noto Sans Cypriot",Code2001}.mw-parser-output .script-Hano{font-size:125%;font-family:"Noto Sans Hanunoo",FreeSerif,Quivira}.mw-parser-output .script-Latf,.mw-parser-output .script-de-Latf{font-size:1.25em;font-family:"Breitkopf Fraktur",UnifrakturCook,UniFrakturMaguntia,MarsFraktur,"MarsFraktur OT",KochFraktur,"KochFraktur OT",OffenbacherSchwabOT,"LOB.AlteSchwabacher","LOV.AlteSchwabacher","LOB.AtlantisFraktur","LOV.AtlantisFraktur","LOB.BreitkopfFraktur","LOV.BreitkopfFraktur","LOB.FetteFraktur","LOV.FetteFraktur","LOB.Fraktur3","LOV.Fraktur3","LOB.RochFraktur","LOV.RochFraktur","LOB.PostFraktur","LOV.PostFraktur","LOB.RuelhscheFraktur","LOV.RuelhscheFraktur","LOB.RungholtFraktur","LOV.RungholtFraktur","LOB.TheuerbankFraktur","LOV.TheuerbankFraktur","LOB.VinetaFraktur","LOV.VinetaFraktur","LOB.WalbaumFraktur","LOV.WalbaumFraktur","LOB.WeberMainzerFraktur","LOV.WeberMainzerFraktur","LOB.WieynckFraktur","LOV.WieynckFraktur","LOB.ZentenarFraktur","LOV.ZentenarFraktur"}.mw-parser-output .script-en-Latf{font-size:1.25em;font-family:Cankama,"Old English Text MT","Textura Libera","Textura Libera Tenuis",London}.mw-parser-output .script-it-Latf{font-size:1.25em;font-family:"Rotunda Pommerania",Rotunda,"Typographer Rotunda"}.mw-parser-output .script-Lina{font-size:1.25em;font-family:"Noto Sans Linear A"}.mw-parser-output .script-Linb{font-size:1.25em;font-family:"Noto Sans Linear B"}.mw-parser-output .script-Ugar{font-size:1.25em;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Noto Sans Ugaritic",Aegean}.mw-parser-output .script-Xpeo{font-size:1.25em;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic","Noto Sans Old Persian",Artaxerxes,Xerxes,Aegean}</style><span class="Unicode"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8D#Translingual" class="extiw" title="wikt:卍">卍</a></span>" (<a href="/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin">pinyin</a>&#58; <i><span lang="zh-Latn">wàn</span></i>) and as such entered various other <a href="/wiki/East_Asian_languages" title="East Asian languages">East Asian languages</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Chinese_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese character">Chinese script</a>. In Japanese the symbol is called "<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8D#Japanese" class="extiw" title="wikt:卍">卍</a></span></span>"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<a href="/wiki/Hepburn_romanization" title="Hepburn romanization">Hepburn</a>: <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">manji</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> or "<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8D%E5%AD%97#Japanese" class="extiw" title="wikt:卍字">卍字</a></span></span>"<span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">manji</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span>. </p><p>The swastika is included in the <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> character sets of two languages. In the Chinese block it is U+534D <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%8D" class="extiw" title="wikt:卍">卍</a> (left-facing) and U+5350 for the swastika <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8D%90" class="extiw" title="wikt:卐">卐</a> (right-facing);<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The latter has a mapping in the original <a href="/wiki/Big5" title="Big5">Big5</a> character set,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but the former does not (although it is in Big5+<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>). In Unicode 5.2, two swastika symbols and two swastikas were added to the <a href="/wiki/Tibetan_(Unicode_block)" title="Tibetan (Unicode block)">Tibetan block</a>: swastika <span class="nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886049734">.mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace}</style><span class="monospaced">U+0FD5</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfd5;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT-FACING SVASTI SIGN</span>, <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0FD7</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfd7;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">RIGHT-FACING SVASTI SIGN WITH DOTS</span>, and swastikas <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0FD6</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfd6;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT-FACING SVASTI SIGN</span>, <span class="nowrap"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886049734"><span class="monospaced">U+0FD8</span>&#x20;</span><span style="font-size:125%;line-height:1em">&#xfd8;</span> <span style="font-variant: small-caps; text-transform: lowercase;">LEFT-FACING SVASTI SIGN WITH DOTS</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origin">Origin</h2></div> <p>European uses of swastikas are often treated in conjunction with <a href="/wiki/Cross_symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross symbol">cross symbols</a> in general, such as the <a href="/wiki/Sun_cross" title="Sun cross">sun cross</a> of <a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_religion" title="Prehistoric religion">Bronze Age religion</a>. Beyond its certain presence in the "<a href="/wiki/Proto-writing" title="Proto-writing">proto-writing</a>" symbol systems, such as the <a href="/wiki/Vin%C4%8Da_script" class="mw-redirect" title="Vinča script">Vinča script</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which appeared during the <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="North_pole">North pole</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Precessional_north_pole_(B%C4%9Bij%C3%AD_%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%81)_in_%CE%B1_Ursae_Minoris,_drawing_a_w%C3%A0n_%E5%8D%8D_in_the_four_phases_of_time.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Precessional_north_pole_%28B%C4%9Bij%C3%AD_%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%81%29_in_%CE%B1_Ursae_Minoris%2C_drawing_a_w%C3%A0n_%E5%8D%8D_in_the_four_phases_of_time.svg/300px-Precessional_north_pole_%28B%C4%9Bij%C3%AD_%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%81%29_in_%CE%B1_Ursae_Minoris%2C_drawing_a_w%C3%A0n_%E5%8D%8D_in_the_four_phases_of_time.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="299" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Precessional_north_pole_%28B%C4%9Bij%C3%AD_%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%81%29_in_%CE%B1_Ursae_Minoris%2C_drawing_a_w%C3%A0n_%E5%8D%8D_in_the_four_phases_of_time.svg/450px-Precessional_north_pole_%28B%C4%9Bij%C3%AD_%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%81%29_in_%CE%B1_Ursae_Minoris%2C_drawing_a_w%C3%A0n_%E5%8D%8D_in_the_four_phases_of_time.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Precessional_north_pole_%28B%C4%9Bij%C3%AD_%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%81%29_in_%CE%B1_Ursae_Minoris%2C_drawing_a_w%C3%A0n_%E5%8D%8D_in_the_four_phases_of_time.svg/600px-Precessional_north_pole_%28B%C4%9Bij%C3%AD_%E5%8C%97%E6%9E%81%29_in_%CE%B1_Ursae_Minoris%2C_drawing_a_w%C3%A0n_%E5%8D%8D_in_the_four_phases_of_time.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="522" data-file-height="520" /></a><figcaption>Approximate representation of the <span title="Mari (Russia)-language text"><i lang="chm-Latn">Tiānmén</i></span> <span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">天門</span></span> ('Gate of Heaven') or <span title="Mari (Russia)-language text"><i lang="chm-Latn">Tiānshū</i></span> <span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">天樞</span></span> ('Pivot of Heaven') as the processional north celestial pole, with <a href="/wiki/Polaris" title="Polaris">α Ursae Minoris</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Pole_star" title="Pole star">pole star</a>, with the spinning <a href="/wiki/Big_Dipper" title="Big Dipper">Chariot</a> constellations in the four phases of time. <span title="Mari (Russia)-language text"><i lang="chm-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Ti%C4%81n" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiān">Tiān</a></i></span>, generally translated as 'heaven' in <a href="/wiki/Chinese_theology" title="Chinese theology">Chinese theology</a>, refers to the northern <a href="/wiki/Celestial_pole" title="Celestial pole">celestial pole</a> (<span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">北極</span></span> <i>Běijí</i>), the pivot and the vault of the sky with its spinning constellations. The celestial pivot can be represented by <i>wàn</i> <span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh">卍</span></span> ('myriad things').</figcaption></figure> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Gu%C3%A9non" title="René Guénon">René Guénon</a>, the swastika represents the north pole, and the rotational movement around a centre or immutable axis (<span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Axis_mundi" title="Axis mundi">axis mundi</a></i></span>), and only secondly it represents the <a href="/wiki/Sun" title="Sun">Sun</a> as a reflected function of the north pole. As such it is a symbol of life, of the vivifying role of the supreme principle of the universe, the <a href="/wiki/Absolute_(philosophy)" title="Absolute (philosophy)">absolute</a> God, in relation to the cosmic order. It represents the activity (the Hellenic <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><i lang="grc-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Logos" title="Logos">Logos</a></i></span>, the Hindu <span title="Sanskrit-language text"><i lang="sa-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Om" title="Om">Om</a></i></span>, the Chinese <span title="Mari (Russia)-language text"><i lang="chm-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_theology" title="Chinese theology">Taiyi</a></i></span>, 'Great One') of the principle of the universe in the formation of the world.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to Guénon, the swastika in its polar value has the same meaning of the <a href="/wiki/Yin_and_yang" title="Yin and yang">yin and yang</a> symbol of the Chinese tradition, and of other traditional symbols of the working of the universe, including the letters Γ (<a href="/wiki/Gamma_(letter)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gamma (letter)">gamma</a>) and G, symbolising the <a href="/wiki/Great_Architect_of_the_Universe" title="Great Architect of the Universe">Great Architect of the Universe</a> of <a href="/wiki/Freemasonry" title="Freemasonry">Masonic</a> thought.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the scholar Reza Assasi, the swastika represents the north <a href="/wiki/Ecliptic_north_pole" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecliptic north pole">ecliptic north pole</a> centred in <a href="/wiki/Zeta_Draconis" title="Zeta Draconis">ζ Draconis</a>, with the constellation <a href="/wiki/Draco_(constellation)" title="Draco (constellation)">Draco</a> as one of its beams. He argues that this symbol was later attested as the four-horse chariot of <a href="/wiki/Mithra" title="Mithra">Mithra</a> in ancient Iranian culture. They believed the cosmos was pulled by four heavenly horses who revolved around a fixed centre in a clockwise direction. He suggests that this notion later flourished in Roman <a href="/wiki/Mithraism" title="Mithraism">Mithraism</a>, as the symbol appears in Mithraic iconography and astronomical representations.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the Russian archaeologist <a href="/wiki/Gennady_Zdanovich" title="Gennady Zdanovich">Gennady Zdanovich</a>, who studied some of the oldest examples of the symbol in <a href="/wiki/Sintashta_culture" title="Sintashta culture">Sintashta culture</a>, the swastika symbolises the universe, representing the spinning constellations of the <a href="/wiki/Celestial_north_pole" class="mw-redirect" title="Celestial north pole">celestial north pole</a> centred in <a href="/wiki/Polaris" title="Polaris">α Ursae Minoris</a>, specifically the <a href="/wiki/Little_Dipper" class="mw-redirect" title="Little Dipper">Little</a> and <a href="/wiki/Big_Dipper" title="Big Dipper">Big Dipper</a> (or Chariots), or Ursa Minor and Ursa Major.<sup id="cite_ref-ru-sled.ru_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ru-sled.ru-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Likewise, according to René Guénon-the swastika is drawn by visualising the Big Dipper/Great Bear in the four phases of revolution around the pole star.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comet">Comet</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mawangdui_Astrology_Comets_Ms.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Mawangdui_Astrology_Comets_Ms.JPG/220px-Mawangdui_Astrology_Comets_Ms.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Mawangdui_Astrology_Comets_Ms.JPG/330px-Mawangdui_Astrology_Comets_Ms.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Mawangdui_Astrology_Comets_Ms.JPG/440px-Mawangdui_Astrology_Comets_Ms.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1245" data-file-height="585" /></a><figcaption>Depiction of comets from the <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Silk" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Silk">Book of Silk</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a>, 2nd century BCE</figcaption></figure> <p>In their 1985 book <i><a href="/wiki/Comet_(book)" title="Comet (book)">Comet</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Sagan" title="Carl Sagan">Carl Sagan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ann_Druyan" title="Ann Druyan">Ann Druyan</a> argue that the appearance of a rotating <a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">comet</a> with a four-pronged tail as early as 2,000 years BCE could explain why the swastika is found in the cultures of both the <a href="/wiki/Old_World" title="Old World">Old World</a> and the <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pre-Columbian_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-Columbian Americas">pre-Columbian Americas</a></span>. The <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Silk" class="mw-redirect" title="Book of Silk">Book of Silk</a></i> (2nd century BCE) depicts such a comet with a swastika-like symbol.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bob Kobres, in a 1992 paper, contends that the swastika-like comet on the Han-dynasty manuscript was labelled a "long tailed pheasant star" (<i>dixing</i>) because of its resemblance to a bird's foot or footprint.<sup id="cite_ref-kobres_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kobres-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Similar comparisons had been made by J.<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>F. Hewitt in 1907,<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> as well as a 1908 article in <i><a href="/wiki/Good_Housekeeping" title="Good Housekeeping">Good Housekeeping</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Kobres goes on to suggest an association of mythological birds and comets also outside of China.<sup id="cite_ref-kobres_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kobres-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Four_winds">Four winds</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pima_Swastika.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Pima_Swastika.svg/110px-Pima_Swastika.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Pima_Swastika.svg/165px-Pima_Swastika.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Pima_Swastika.svg/220px-Pima_Swastika.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="127" data-file-height="127" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Pima_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pima people">Pima</a> symbol of the four winds</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Native_American_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American culture">Native American culture</a>, particularly among the <a href="/wiki/Pima_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Pima people">Pima people</a> of <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>, the swastika is a symbol of the four winds. Anthropologist <a href="/wiki/Frank_Hamilton_Cushing" title="Frank Hamilton Cushing">Frank Hamilton Cushing</a> noted that among the Pima the symbol of the four winds is made from a cross with the four curved arms (similar to a broken <a href="/wiki/Sun_cross" title="Sun cross">sun cross</a>) and concludes "the right-angle swastika is primarily a representation of the circle of the four wind gods standing at the head of their trails, or directions."<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_uses">Historical uses</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistory">Prehistory</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Archaeological_Monuments_and_Spaciments_of_Armenia_Volume_6_Armenia_Yerevan_1971_p_198.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/The_Archaeological_Monuments_and_Spaciments_of_Armenia_Volume_6_Armenia_Yerevan_1971_p_198.jpg/220px-The_Archaeological_Monuments_and_Spaciments_of_Armenia_Volume_6_Armenia_Yerevan_1971_p_198.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/The_Archaeological_Monuments_and_Spaciments_of_Armenia_Volume_6_Armenia_Yerevan_1971_p_198.jpg/330px-The_Archaeological_Monuments_and_Spaciments_of_Armenia_Volume_6_Armenia_Yerevan_1971_p_198.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/The_Archaeological_Monuments_and_Spaciments_of_Armenia_Volume_6_Armenia_Yerevan_1971_p_198.jpg/440px-The_Archaeological_Monuments_and_Spaciments_of_Armenia_Volume_6_Armenia_Yerevan_1971_p_198.jpg 2x" data-file-width="732" data-file-height="732" /></a><figcaption>Rock painting in the caves of <a href="/wiki/Gegham_mountains" title="Gegham mountains">Gegham mountains</a>, Armenia</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE_%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE_%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg/220px-%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE_%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE_%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg/330px-%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE_%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE_%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg/440px-%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AE_%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Lakh_Mazar" title="Lakh Mazar">Lakh Mazar</a>, a pre-historic inscription in Iran</figcaption></figure> <p>The earliest known swastikas are from 10,000 BCE&#160;&#8211;&#32;part of "an intricate meander pattern of joined-up swastikas" found on a late <a href="/wiki/Paleolithic" title="Paleolithic">paleolithic</a> figurine of a bird, carved from <a href="/wiki/Mammoth" title="Mammoth">mammoth</a> ivory, found in <a href="/wiki/Mezine" title="Mezine">Mezine</a>, Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the age of 10,000 BCE is a conservative estimate, and the true age may be as old as 17,000 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It has been suggested that this swastika may be a stylised picture of a <a href="/wiki/Stork" title="Stork">stork</a> in flight.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As the carving was found near <a href="/wiki/Phallus" title="Phallus">phallic</a> objects, this may also support the idea that the pattern was a fertility symbol.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_2014_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_2014-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mountains of <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, there are swastikas or spinning wheels inscribed on stone walls, which are estimated to be more than 7,000 years old. One instance is in Khorashad, <a href="/wiki/Birjand" title="Birjand">Birjand</a>, on the holy wall Lakh Mazar.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mirror-image swastikas (clockwise and counter-clockwise) have been found on ceramic pottery in the <a href="/wiki/Devetashka_cave" title="Devetashka cave">Devetashka cave</a>, Bulgaria, dated to 6,000 BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Asia, swastika symbols first appear in the archaeological record around<sup id="cite_ref-Kathleen_M._Nadeau_2010_87_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kathleen_M._Nadeau_2010_87-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> 3000 BCE in the Indus Valley Civilisation.<sup id="cite_ref-Heller_2008_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heller_2008-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It also appears in the <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> cultures around the <a href="/wiki/Black_Sea" title="Black Sea">Black Sea</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Caspian_Sea" title="Caspian Sea">Caspian Sea</a>. In all these cultures, swastika symbols do not appear to occupy any marked position or significance, appearing as just one form of a series of similar symbols of varying complexity. In the <a href="/wiki/Zoroastrianism" title="Zoroastrianism">Zoroastrian</a> religion of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Persia" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Persia">Persia</a>, the swastika was a symbol of the revolving sun, infinity, or continuing creation.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is one of the most common symbols on <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamian</a> coins.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some researchers put forth the hypothesis that the swastika moved westward from the Indian subcontinent to Finland, <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Highlands" title="Scottish Highlands">Scottish Highlands</a> and other parts of Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (February 2021)">better&#160;source&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> In England, neolithic or Bronze Age stone carvings of the symbol have been found on <a href="/wiki/Ilkley_Moor" title="Ilkley Moor">Ilkley Moor</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Swastika_Stone" title="Swastika Stone">Swastika Stone</a>. </p><p>Swastikas have also been found on pottery in archaeological digs in Africa, in the area of <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush" title="Kingdom of Kush">Kush</a> and on pottery at the <a href="/wiki/Jebel_Barkal" title="Jebel Barkal">Jebel Barkal</a> temples,<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> designs of the northern <a href="/wiki/Caucasus" title="Caucasus">Caucasus</a> (<a href="/wiki/Koban_culture" title="Koban culture">Koban culture</a>), and in <a href="/wiki/Neolithic_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Neolithic China">Neolithic China</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Majiayao_culture" title="Majiayao culture">Majiayao</a> culture.<sup id="cite_ref-GW_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GW-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Swastikas are also seen in Egypt during the Coptic period. Textile number T.231-1923 held at the V&amp;A Museum in London includes small swastikas in its design. This piece was found at Qau-el-Kebir, near <a href="/wiki/Asyut" title="Asyut">Asyut</a>, and is dated between 300 and 600 CE.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Tierwirbel</i> (the German for "animal whorl" or "whirl of animals"<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) is a characteristic motif in Bronze Age Central Asia, the <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_Steppe" title="Eurasian Steppe">Eurasian Steppe</a>, and later also in Iron Age <a href="/wiki/Scythian" class="mw-redirect" title="Scythian">Scythian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age_Europe" title="Iron Age Europe">European</a> (<a href="/wiki/Baltic_peoples" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic peoples">Baltic</a><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Germanic_peoples" title="Germanic peoples">Germanic</a>) culture, showing rotational symmetric arrangement of an <a href="/wiki/Animal_style" title="Animal style">animal motif</a>, often four birds' heads. Even wider diffusion of this "Asiatic" theme has been proposed to the Pacific and even North America (especially <a href="/wiki/Moundville_Archaeological_Site" title="Moundville Archaeological Site">Moundville</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Samarra_bowl.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Samarra bowl, from Iraq, circa 4,000 BCE, held at the Pergamonmuseum, Berlin. The swastika in the centre of the design is a reconstruction.[88]"><img alt="The Samarra bowl, from Iraq, circa 4,000 BCE, held at the Pergamonmuseum, Berlin. The swastika in the centre of the design is a reconstruction.[88]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Samarra_bowl.jpg/197px-Samarra_bowl.jpg" decoding="async" width="197" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Samarra_bowl.jpg/296px-Samarra_bowl.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Samarra_bowl.jpg/394px-Samarra_bowl.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="812" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/Samarra_culture" title="Samarra culture">Samarra</a> bowl, from Iraq, circa 4,000 BCE, held at the <a href="/wiki/Pergamonmuseum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pergamonmuseum">Pergamonmuseum</a>, Berlin. The swastika in the centre of the design is a reconstruction.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:IndusValleySeals_swastikas.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Swastika seals from Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, of the Indus Valley civilisation, circa 2,100 – 1,750 BCE, preserved at the British Museum[89]"><img alt="Swastika seals from Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan, of the Indus Valley civilisation, circa 2,100 – 1,750 BCE, preserved at the British Museum[89]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/IndusValleySeals_swastikas.JPG/200px-IndusValleySeals_swastikas.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/IndusValleySeals_swastikas.JPG/300px-IndusValleySeals_swastikas.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/IndusValleySeals_swastikas.JPG/400px-IndusValleySeals_swastikas.JPG 2x" data-file-width="411" data-file-height="237" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Swastika seals from <a href="/wiki/Mohenjo-daro" title="Mohenjo-daro">Mohenjo-daro</a>, Pakistan, of the <a href="/wiki/Indus_Valley_civilisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Indus Valley civilisation">Indus Valley civilisation</a>, circa 2,100 – 1,750 BCE, preserved at the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 230px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Swastika_iran.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A swastika necklace excavated from Marlik, Gilan province, northern Iran, circa 1,200 – 1,050 BCE"><img alt="A swastika necklace excavated from Marlik, Gilan province, northern Iran, circa 1,200 – 1,050 BCE" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Swastika_iran.jpg/200px-Swastika_iran.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Swastika_iran.jpg/300px-Swastika_iran.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Swastika_iran.jpg 2x" data-file-width="344" data-file-height="312" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A swastika necklace excavated from <a href="/wiki/Marlik" title="Marlik">Marlik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gilan" class="mw-redirect" title="Gilan">Gilan</a> province, northern Iran, circa 1,200 – 1,050 BCE</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Caucasus">Caucasus</h4></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arevakhach.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Arevakhach.svg/100px-Arevakhach.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Arevakhach.svg/150px-Arevakhach.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Arevakhach.svg/200px-Arevakhach.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="636" data-file-height="636" /></a><figcaption>Armenian <i><a href="/wiki/Arevakhach" class="mw-redirect" title="Arevakhach">arevakhach</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>In Armenia the swastika is called the "<a href="/wiki/Arevakhach" class="mw-redirect" title="Arevakhach">arevakhach</a>" and "kerkhach" (<a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a>: <span lang="hy">կեռխաչ</span>)<sup id="cite_ref-Concise_Armenian_Encyclopedia_p._663_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Concise_Armenian_Encyclopedia_p._663-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (December 2014)">dubious</span></a>&#32;&#8211; <a href="/wiki/Talk:Swastika#Dubious" title="Talk:Swastika">discuss</a></i>&#93;</sup> and is the ancient symbol of eternity and eternal light (i.e. God). Swastikas in Armenia were found on petroglyphs from the copper age, predating the Bronze Age. During the Bronze Age it was depicted on <a href="/wiki/Cauldron" title="Cauldron">cauldrons</a>, belts, <a href="/wiki/Medallion" class="mw-redirect" title="Medallion">medallions</a> and other items.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p> Swastikas can also be seen on early Medieval churches and fortresses, including the principal tower in Armenia's historical capital city of <a href="/wiki/Ani" title="Ani">Ani</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Concise_Armenian_Encyclopedia_p._663_92-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Concise_Armenian_Encyclopedia_p._663-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The same symbol can be found on <a href="/wiki/Armenian_carpet" title="Armenian carpet">Armenian carpets</a>, cross-stones (<i><a href="/wiki/Khachkar" title="Khachkar">khachkar</a></i>) and in medieval manuscripts, as well as on modern monuments as a <a href="/wiki/Armenian_eternity_sign" title="Armenian eternity sign">symbol of eternity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p><div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <p>Old <a href="/wiki/Petroglyph" title="Petroglyph">petroglyphs</a> of four-beam and other swastikas were recorded in <a href="/wiki/Dagestan" title="Dagestan">Dagestan</a>, in particular, among the <a href="/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)" title="Avars (Caucasus)">Avars</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Debirov_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Debirov-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Vakhushti_of_Kartli" title="Vakhushti of Kartli">Vakhushti of Kartli</a>, the tribal banner of the <a href="/wiki/Avar_Khanate" title="Avar Khanate">Avar khans</a> depicted a wolf with a standard with a double-spiral swastika.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Petroglyphs with swastikas were depicted on medieval <a href="/wiki/Vainakh_tower_architecture" title="Vainakh tower architecture">Vainakh tower architecture</a> (see sketches by scholar Bruno Plaetschke from the 1920s).<sup id="cite_ref-Plaetschke_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plaetschke-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Thus, a rectangular swastika was made in engraved form on the entrance of a residential tower in the settlement <a href="/wiki/Khimoy" title="Khimoy">Khimoy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chechnya" title="Chechnya">Chechnya</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Plaetschke_97-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plaetschke-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_petroglyph_with_swastikas,_in_Geghama_mountains,_Armenia.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The petroglyph with swastikas, Gegham mountains, Armenia, circa 8,000 – 5,000 BCE[96]"><img alt="The petroglyph with swastikas, Gegham mountains, Armenia, circa 8,000 – 5,000 BCE[96]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/The_petroglyph_with_swastikas%2C_in_Geghama_mountains%2C_Armenia.jpg/120px-The_petroglyph_with_swastikas%2C_in_Geghama_mountains%2C_Armenia.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/The_petroglyph_with_swastikas%2C_in_Geghama_mountains%2C_Armenia.jpg/180px-The_petroglyph_with_swastikas%2C_in_Geghama_mountains%2C_Armenia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/The_petroglyph_with_swastikas%2C_in_Geghama_mountains%2C_Armenia.jpg/240px-The_petroglyph_with_swastikas%2C_in_Geghama_mountains%2C_Armenia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1550" data-file-height="1092" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The petroglyph with swastikas, <a href="/wiki/Gegham_mountains" title="Gegham mountains">Gegham mountains</a>, Armenia, circa 8,000 – 5,000 BCE<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Swastika_of_Avars_Daghestan.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Avar old petroglyph[93]"><img alt="Avar old petroglyph[93]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Swastika_of_Avars_Daghestan.JPG/120px-Swastika_of_Avars_Daghestan.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="88" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Swastika_of_Avars_Daghestan.JPG/180px-Swastika_of_Avars_Daghestan.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Swastika_of_Avars_Daghestan.JPG/240px-Swastika_of_Avars_Daghestan.JPG 2x" data-file-width="302" data-file-height="221" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)" title="Avars (Caucasus)">Avar</a> old petroglyph<sup id="cite_ref-Debirov_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Debirov-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Swastika_avarian_Dagh.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Avar folk swastika"><img alt="Avar folk swastika" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Swastika_avarian_Dagh.JPG/114px-Swastika_avarian_Dagh.JPG" decoding="async" width="114" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Swastika_avarian_Dagh.JPG/171px-Swastika_avarian_Dagh.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/Swastika_avarian_Dagh.JPG/227px-Swastika_avarian_Dagh.JPG 2x" data-file-width="433" data-file-height="457" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Avars_(Caucasus)" title="Avars (Caucasus)">Avar</a> folk swastika</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Armenian_Khachkar_with_Swastikas_Sanahin_Armenia_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Khachkar with swastikas and hexafoils in Sanahin, Armenia"><img alt="Khachkar with swastikas and hexafoils in Sanahin, Armenia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Armenian_Khachkar_with_Swastikas_Sanahin_Armenia_1.jpg/120px-Armenian_Khachkar_with_Swastikas_Sanahin_Armenia_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="91" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Armenian_Khachkar_with_Swastikas_Sanahin_Armenia_1.jpg/180px-Armenian_Khachkar_with_Swastikas_Sanahin_Armenia_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Armenian_Khachkar_with_Swastikas_Sanahin_Armenia_1.jpg/240px-Armenian_Khachkar_with_Swastikas_Sanahin_Armenia_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="634" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Khachkar" title="Khachkar">Khachkar</a> with swastikas and <a href="/wiki/Hexafoil" title="Hexafoil">hexafoils</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sanahin" title="Sanahin">Sanahin</a>, Armenia</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Swastika on the medieval tower arche in Khimoy, Chechnya"><img alt="Swastika on the medieval tower arche in Khimoy, Chechnya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg/120px-%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg/180px-%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg/240px-%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8B_%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%B2_%D0%A7%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="507" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Swastika on the medieval tower arche in <a href="/wiki/Khimoy" title="Khimoy">Khimoy</a>, Chechnya</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Europe">Europe</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Swastika_(Germanic_Iron_Age)" title="Swastika (Germanic Iron Age)">Swastika (Germanic Iron Age)</a></div> <p>Iron Age attestations of swastikas can be associated with <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans" title="Proto-Indo-Europeans">Indo-European</a> cultures such as the <a href="/wiki/Illyrians" title="Illyrians">Illyrians</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Stipčević_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stipčević-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Indo-Iranians" title="Indo-Iranians">Indo-Iranians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Celt" class="mw-redirect" title="Celt">Celts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greeks" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greeks">Greeks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Swastika_(Germanic_Iron_Age)" title="Swastika (Germanic Iron Age)">Germanic peoples</a> and <a href="/wiki/Slavs" title="Slavs">Slavs</a>. In <a href="/wiki/Sintashta_culture" title="Sintashta culture">Sintashta culture</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Country_of_Towns" title="Country of Towns">Country of Towns</a>", ancient <a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans" title="Proto-Indo-Europeans">Indo-European</a> settlements in southern Russia, it has been found a great concentration of some of the oldest swastika patterns.<sup id="cite_ref-ru-sled.ru_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ru-sled.ru-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Swastika shapes have been found on numerous artefacts from <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-Concise_Armenian_Encyclopedia_p._663_92-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Concise_Armenian_Encyclopedia_p._663-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Stipčević_99-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stipčević-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MigSym_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MigSym-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The swastika shape (also called a <i>fylfot</i>) appears on various Germanic <a href="/wiki/Migration_Period" title="Migration Period">Migration Period</a> and <a href="/wiki/Viking_Age" title="Viking Age">Viking Age</a> artifacts, such as the 3rd-century <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A6rl%C3%B8se_Fibula" class="mw-redirect" title="Værløse Fibula">Værløse Fibula</a> from Zealand, Denmark, the <a href="/wiki/Goths" title="Goths">Gothic</a> spearhead from <a href="/wiki/Brest-Litovsk" class="mw-redirect" title="Brest-Litovsk">Brest-Litovsk</a>, today in Belarus, the 9th-century <a href="/wiki/Snoldelev_Stone" title="Snoldelev Stone">Snoldelev Stone</a> from <a href="/wiki/Rams%C3%B8" title="Ramsø">Ramsø</a>, Denmark, and numerous Migration Period <a href="/wiki/Bracteate" title="Bracteate">bracteates</a> drawn left-facing or right-facing.<sup id="cite_ref-OLDTIDENS_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OLDTIDENS-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_paganism" title="Anglo-Saxon paganism">pagan</a> <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon</a> <a href="/wiki/Ship_burial" title="Ship burial">ship burial</a> at <a href="/wiki/Sutton_Hoo" title="Sutton Hoo">Sutton Hoo</a>, England, contained numerous items bearing swastikas, now housed in the collection of the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Archaeology_and_Anthropology,_University_of_Cambridge" title="Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge">Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAVIDSON83-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (August 2017)">failed verification</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> A swastika is clearly marked on a hilt and sword belt found at <a href="/wiki/Bifrons" class="mw-redirect" title="Bifrons">Bifrons</a> in Kent, in a grave of about the 6th century. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Hilda_Ellis_Davidson" title="Hilda Ellis Davidson">Hilda Ellis Davidson</a> theorised<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="Please check whether this usage of the word &quot;theory&quot; is correct. &quot;Hypothesis&quot; may actually be meant. (March 2021)">clarification needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> that the swastika symbol was associated with <a href="/wiki/Thor" title="Thor">Thor</a>, possibly representing his <a href="/wiki/Mjolnir" class="mw-redirect" title="Mjolnir">Mjolnir</a>&#160;&#8211;&#32;symbolic of thunder&#160;&#8211;&#32;and possibly being connected to the Bronze Age sun cross.<sup id="cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAVIDSON83-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Davidson cites "many examples" of swastika symbols from Anglo-Saxon graves of the pagan period, with particular prominence on cremation urns from the cemeteries of East Anglia.<sup id="cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAVIDSON83-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some of the swastikas on the items, on display at the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, are depicted with such care and art that, according to Davidson, it must have possessed special significance as a <a href="/wiki/Funerary_art" title="Funerary art">funerary symbol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAVIDSON83-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Runic_inscription" class="mw-redirect" title="Runic inscription">runic inscription</a> on the 8th-century <a href="/wiki/S%C3%A6b%C3%B8_sword" title="Sæbø sword">Sæbø sword</a> has been taken as evidence of the swastika as a symbol of Thor in <a href="/wiki/Norse_paganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Norse paganism">Norse paganism</a>. </p><p>The bronze frontispiece of a ritual pre-Christian (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;">&#8201;350–50 BCE</span>) shield found in the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">River Thames</a> near <a href="/wiki/Battersea_Bridge" title="Battersea Bridge">Battersea Bridge</a> (hence "<a href="/wiki/Battersea_Shield" title="Battersea Shield">Battersea Shield</a>") is embossed with 27 swastikas in bronze and red enamel.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An <a href="/wiki/Ogham" title="Ogham">Ogham</a> stone found in Aglish, <a href="/wiki/County_Kerry" title="County Kerry">County Kerry</a>, Ireland (<a href="/wiki/CIIC" class="mw-redirect" title="CIIC">CIIC</a> 141) was modified into an early Christian gravestone, and was decorated with a <a href="/wiki/Cross_patt%C3%A9e" title="Cross pattée">cross pattée</a> and two swastikas.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Kells" title="Book of Kells">Book of Kells</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;">&#8201;800 CE</span>) contains swastika-shaped ornamentation. At the Northern edge of <a href="/wiki/Ilkley_Moor" title="Ilkley Moor">Ilkley Moor</a> in West Yorkshire, there is a swastika-shaped pattern engraved in a stone known as the <a href="/wiki/Swastika_Stone" title="Swastika Stone">Swastika Stone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A number of swastikas have been found embossed in <a href="/wiki/Galicia_(Spain)" title="Galicia (Spain)">Galician</a> metal pieces and carved in stones, mostly from the <a href="/wiki/Castro_culture" title="Castro culture">Castro culture</a> period, although there also are contemporary examples (imitating old patterns for decorative purposes).<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Swastika_from_Baltic.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Swastika_from_Baltic.jpg/150px-Swastika_from_Baltic.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="503" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Swastika_from_Baltic.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="671" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Ugunskrusts" title="Ugunskrusts">Ugunskrusts</a></i> motif</figcaption></figure> <p>The ancient <a href="/wiki/Balts" title="Balts">Baltic</a> thunder cross symbol (<i>pērkona krusts</i> (cross of <a href="/wiki/Perkons" class="mw-redirect" title="Perkons">Perkons</a>); also fire cross, <i><a href="/wiki/Ugunskrusts" title="Ugunskrusts">ugunskrusts</a></i>) is a swastika symbol used to decorate objects, traditional clothing and in <a href="/wiki/Excavation_(archaeology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Excavation (archaeology)">archaeological excavations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guénon-2001_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guénon-2001-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to painter Stanisław Jakubowski, the "little sun" (Polish: <i>słoneczko</i>) is an <a href="/wiki/Early_Slavs" title="Early Slavs">Early Slavic</a> pagan symbol of the Sun; he claimed it was engraved on wooden monuments built near the final resting places of fallen Slavs to represent eternal life. The symbol was first seen in his collection of Early Slavic symbols and architectural features, which he named <i>Prasłowiańskie motywy architektoniczne</i> (Polish: <i>Early Slavic Architectural Motifs</i>). His work was published in 1923.<sup id="cite_ref-Old_Slavic_Symbols_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Old_Slavic_Symbols-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Boreyko_coat_of_arms" title="Boreyko coat of arms">Boreyko coat of arms</a> with a red swastika was used by several noble families in the <a href="/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" title="Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Boris_Kuftin" title="Boris Kuftin">Boris Kuftin</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Russians" title="Russians">Russians</a> often used swastikas as a decorative element and as the basis of the ornament on traditional weaving products.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuftin_113-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuftin-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many can be seen on a women's folk costume from the <a href="/wiki/Meshchera_Lowlands" title="Meshchera Lowlands">Meshchera Lowlands</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kuftin_113-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kuftin-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to some authors, Russian names popularly associated with the swastika include <i>veterok</i> ("breeze"),<sup id="cite_ref-echoMsk_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-echoMsk-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>ognevtsi</i> ("little flames"), "geese", "hares" (a towel with a swastika was called a towel with "hares"), or "little horses".<sup id="cite_ref-Bogdasarov2002_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bogdasarov2002-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The similar word "<i>koleso</i>" ("wheel") was used for rosette-shaped amulets, such as a <a href="/wiki/Hexafoil" title="Hexafoil">hexafoil</a>-thunder wheel <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Thunder_mark_(1).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Thunder_mark_%281%29.svg/30px-Thunder_mark_%281%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Thunder_mark_%281%29.svg/45px-Thunder_mark_%281%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Thunder_mark_%281%29.svg/60px-Thunder_mark_%281%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="334" data-file-height="376" /></a></span>) in folklore, particularly in the <a href="/wiki/Russian_North" title="Russian North">Russian North</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ivanits_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ivanits-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Garshol_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Garshol-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>An object very much like a hammer or a double axe is depicted among the magical symbols on the drums of <a href="/wiki/Sami_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Sami people">Sami</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Noaidi" title="Noaidi">noaidi</a></i>, used in their religious ceremonies before Christianity was established. The name of the Sami thunder god was <a href="/wiki/Horagalles" title="Horagalles">Horagalles</a>, thought to derive from "Old Man Thor" (<i>Þórr karl</i>). Sometimes on the drums, a male figure with a hammer-like object in either hand is shown, and sometimes it is more like a cross with crooked ends, or a swastika.<sup id="cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAVIDSON83-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ReceBogaSwargi.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ancient symbol the Hands of God or &quot;Hands of Svarog&quot; (Polish: Ręce Swaroga)[116]"><img alt="Ancient symbol the Hands of God or &quot;Hands of Svarog&quot; (Polish: Ręce Swaroga)[116]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/ReceBogaSwargi.svg/120px-ReceBogaSwargi.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/ReceBogaSwargi.svg/180px-ReceBogaSwargi.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/ReceBogaSwargi.svg/240px-ReceBogaSwargi.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ancient symbol the <a href="/wiki/Ashtray_from_Bia%C5%82a#Hands_of_God" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashtray from Biała">Hands of God</a> or "Hands of Svarog" (Polish: <i>Ręce Swaroga</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Laimas_krusts_Lielvardes_josta.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Swastika on the Lielvārde Belt, Latvia"><img alt="Swastika on the Lielvārde Belt, Latvia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Laimas_krusts_Lielvardes_josta.jpg/90px-Laimas_krusts_Lielvardes_josta.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Laimas_krusts_Lielvardes_josta.jpg/135px-Laimas_krusts_Lielvardes_josta.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Laimas_krusts_Lielvardes_josta.jpg/180px-Laimas_krusts_Lielvardes_josta.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1512" data-file-height="2016" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Swastika on the <a href="/wiki/Lielv%C4%81rde_Belt" class="mw-redirect" title="Lielvārde Belt">Lielvārde Belt</a>, Latvia</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:POL_COA_Boreyko.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Boreyko coat of arms"><img alt="Boreyko coat of arms" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/POL_COA_Boreyko.svg/119px-POL_COA_Boreyko.svg.png" decoding="async" width="119" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/POL_COA_Boreyko.svg/179px-POL_COA_Boreyko.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/POL_COA_Boreyko.svg/239px-POL_COA_Boreyko.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="730" data-file-height="734" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Boreyko_coat_of_arms" title="Boreyko coat of arms">Boreyko coat of arms</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Southern_and_eastern_Asia">Southern and eastern Asia</h3></div> <p>The icon has been of spiritual significance to Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.<sup id="cite_ref-p.97_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p.97-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The swastika is a sacred symbol in the <a href="/wiki/B%C3%B6n" class="mw-redirect" title="Bön">Bön</a> religion, native to <a href="/wiki/Tibet" title="Tibet">Tibet</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hinduism">Hinduism</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:291px;max-width:291px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Hindu swastikas</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:90px;max-width:90px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:90px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:HinduSwastika.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/HinduSwastika.svg/88px-HinduSwastika.svg.png" decoding="async" width="88" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/HinduSwastika.svg/132px-HinduSwastika.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/HinduSwastika.svg/176px-HinduSwastika.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="142" data-file-height="145" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Hindu swastika</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:92px;max-width:92px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:90px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sauwastika.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sauwastika.svg/90px-Sauwastika.svg.png" decoding="async" width="90" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sauwastika.svg/135px-Sauwastika.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Sauwastika.svg/180px-Sauwastika.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="70" data-file-height="70" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Sauwastika</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:99px;max-width:99px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:90px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bengali_Swastika_Symbol_half.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Bengali_Swastika_Symbol_half.svg/97px-Bengali_Swastika_Symbol_half.svg.png" decoding="async" width="97" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Bengali_Swastika_Symbol_half.svg/146px-Bengali_Swastika_Symbol_half.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Bengali_Swastika_Symbol_half.svg/194px-Bengali_Swastika_Symbol_half.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="428" data-file-height="396" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Bengali swastika</div></div></div></div></div> <p>The swastika is an important Hindu symbol.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-p.97_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-p.97-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The swastika symbol is commonly used before entrances or on doorways of homes or temples, to mark the starting page of financial statements, and <a href="/wiki/Mandala" title="Mandala">mandalas</a> constructed for rituals such as weddings or welcoming a newborn.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lander2013p27_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lander2013p27-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The swastika has a particular association with <a href="/wiki/Diwali" title="Diwali">Diwali</a>, being drawn in <i><a href="/wiki/Rangoli" title="Rangoli">rangoli</a></i> (coloured sand) or formed with <a href="/wiki/Deepak" title="Deepak">deepak</a> lights on the floor outside Hindu houses and on wall hangings and other decorations.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the diverse traditions within Hinduism, both the clockwise and counterclockwise swastika are found, with different meanings. The clockwise or right hand icon is called <i>swastika</i>, while the counterclockwise or left hand icon is called <i>sauwastika</i> or <i>sauvastika</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The clockwise swastika is a solar symbol (<a href="/wiki/Surya" title="Surya">Surya</a>), suggesting the motion of the Sun in India (the northern hemisphere), where it appears to enter from the east, then ascend to the south at midday, exiting to the west.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The counterclockwise <i>sauwastika</i> is less used; it connotes the night, and in tantric traditions it is an icon for the goddess <a href="/wiki/Kali" title="Kali">Kali</a>, the terrifying form of <a href="/wiki/Devi" title="Devi">Devi</a> <a href="/wiki/Durga" title="Durga">Durga</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The symbol also represents activity, karma, motion, wheel, and in some contexts the lotus.<sup id="cite_ref-Sullivan2001p216_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sullivan2001p216-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-snodgrass82_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snodgrass82-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to Norman McClelland its symbolism for motion and the Sun may be from shared prehistoric cultural roots.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed center"> <li class="gallerycaption">A swastika is typical in Hindu temples</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jaipur_03-2016_38_Garh_Ganesh_Temple.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A Hindu temple in Rajasthan, India"><img alt="A Hindu temple in Rajasthan, India" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Jaipur_03-2016_38_Garh_Ganesh_Temple.jpg/270px-Jaipur_03-2016_38_Garh_Ganesh_Temple.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Jaipur_03-2016_38_Garh_Ganesh_Temple.jpg/405px-Jaipur_03-2016_38_Garh_Ganesh_Temple.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Jaipur_03-2016_38_Garh_Ganesh_Temple.jpg/540px-Jaipur_03-2016_38_Garh_Ganesh_Temple.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4520" data-file-height="3013" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A Hindu temple in <a href="/wiki/Rajasthan" title="Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a>, India</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 213.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 211.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF.png" class="mw-file-description" title="A swastika inside a temple"><img alt="A swastika inside a temple" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF.png/317px-%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF.png" decoding="async" width="212" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF.png/476px-%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF.png/635px-%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BF.png 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1090" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A swastika inside a temple</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:A_Hindu_Swastika_at_Goa_Lawah_Temple_Bali_Indonesia.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Balinese Hindu pura Goa Lawah entrance"><img alt="The Balinese Hindu pura Goa Lawah entrance" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/A_Hindu_Swastika_at_Goa_Lawah_Temple_Bali_Indonesia.jpg/271px-A_Hindu_Swastika_at_Goa_Lawah_Temple_Bali_Indonesia.jpg" decoding="async" width="181" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/A_Hindu_Swastika_at_Goa_Lawah_Temple_Bali_Indonesia.jpg/407px-A_Hindu_Swastika_at_Goa_Lawah_Temple_Bali_Indonesia.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/A_Hindu_Swastika_at_Goa_Lawah_Temple_Bali_Indonesia.jpg/542px-A_Hindu_Swastika_at_Goa_Lawah_Temple_Bali_Indonesia.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The <a href="/wiki/Balinese_Hinduism" title="Balinese Hinduism">Balinese Hindu</a> <a href="/wiki/Pura_Goa_Lawah" title="Pura Goa Lawah">pura Goa Lawah</a> entrance</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 182px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bali_014_-_Ubud_-_swastika.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A Balinese Hindu shrine"><img alt="A Balinese Hindu shrine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Bali_014_-_Ubud_-_swastika.jpg/270px-Bali_014_-_Ubud_-_swastika.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Bali_014_-_Ubud_-_swastika.jpg/405px-Bali_014_-_Ubud_-_swastika.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Bali_014_-_Ubud_-_swastika.jpg/540px-Bali_014_-_Ubud_-_swastika.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2376" data-file-height="1584" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A Balinese Hindu shrine</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Buddhism">Buddhism</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Buddhist_Swastika_with_24_Beads.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Buddhist_Swastika_with_24_Beads.svg/170px-Buddhist_Swastika_with_24_Beads.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Buddhist_Swastika_with_24_Beads.svg/255px-Buddhist_Swastika_with_24_Beads.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Buddhist_Swastika_with_24_Beads.svg/340px-Buddhist_Swastika_with_24_Beads.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="466" data-file-height="466" /></a><figcaption>Sauwastika with 24 beads <a href="/wiki/Japamala" title="Japamala">japamala</a>, primarily used in Malaysian Buddhism</figcaption></figure><p>In <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, the swastika is considered to symbolise the auspicious footprints of the Buddha.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-silverblatt109_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-silverblatt109-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The left-facing sauwastika is often imprinted on the chest, feet or palms of <a href="/wiki/Buddha" class="mw-redirect" title="Buddha">Buddha</a> images. It is an aniconic symbol for the Buddha in many parts of Asia and homologous with the <a href="/wiki/Dharmachakra" title="Dharmachakra"><i>dharma wheel</i></a>.<sup id="cite_ref-snodgrass82_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snodgrass82-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The shape symbolises eternal cycling, a theme found in the <i><a href="/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra_(Buddhism)" title="Saṃsāra (Buddhism)">samsara</a></i> doctrine of Buddhism.<sup id="cite_ref-snodgrass82_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snodgrass82-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The swastika symbol is common in <a href="/wiki/Esoteric_Buddhism" class="mw-redirect" title="Esoteric Buddhism">esoteric tantric traditions of Buddhism</a>, along with Hinduism, where it is found with <a href="/wiki/Chakra" title="Chakra">chakra</a> theories and other meditative aids.<sup id="cite_ref-Lander2013p27_119-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lander2013p27-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The clockwise symbol is more common, and contrasts with the counterclockwise version common in the Tibetan <a href="/wiki/Bon" title="Bon">Bon</a> tradition and locally called <i>yungdrung</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Swastika_in_Ashoka_Barabar_Caves_edict.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Swastika_in_Ashoka_Barabar_Caves_edict.jpg/220px-Swastika_in_Ashoka_Barabar_Caves_edict.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Swastika_in_Ashoka_Barabar_Caves_edict.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="296" data-file-height="214" /></a><figcaption>Sauwastika monogram at the end of <a href="/wiki/Barabar_Caves" title="Barabar Caves">Karna Chaupar Cave</a> edict of Ashoka</figcaption></figure> <p>In East Asia, the swastika is prevalent in Buddhist monasteries and communities. It is commonly found in Buddhist temples, religious artifacts, texts related to Buddhism and schools founded by Buddhist religious groups. It also appears as a design or motif (singularly or woven into a pattern) on textiles, architecture and various decorative objects as a symbol of luck and good fortune. The icon is also found as a sacred symbol in the Bon tradition, but in the left-facing orientation.<sup id="cite_ref-John_Powers_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-John_Powers-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lee86_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lee86-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Jainism">Jainism</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jain_Prateek_Chihna.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Jain_Prateek_Chihna.svg/170px-Jain_Prateek_Chihna.svg.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Jain_Prateek_Chihna.svg/255px-Jain_Prateek_Chihna.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Jain_Prateek_Chihna.svg/340px-Jain_Prateek_Chihna.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1124" data-file-height="1934" /></a><figcaption>Jain symbol (<i>Prateek</i>) containing a swastika</figcaption></figure><p> In <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>, it is a symbol of the seventh <i><a href="/wiki/Tirthankara" title="Tirthankara">tīrthaṅkara</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Suparshvanatha" title="Suparshvanatha">Suparśvanātha</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Av%C4%93t%C4%81mbara" class="mw-redirect" title="Śvētāmbara">Śvētāmbara</a> tradition, it is also one of the <i><a href="/wiki/Ashtamangala" title="Ashtamangala">aṣṭamaṅgala</a></i> or eight auspicious symbols. All <a href="/wiki/Jain_temple" title="Jain temple">Jain temples</a> and holy books must contain the swastika and ceremonies typically begin and end with creating a swastika mark several times with rice around the altar. Jains use rice to make a swastika in front of statues and then put an offering on it, usually a ripe or dried fruit, a sweet (<a href="/wiki/Hindi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindi language">Hindi</a>: <span lang="hi">मिठाई</span> <span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn">miṭhāī</i></span>), or a coin or currency note. The four arms of the swastika symbolise the four places where a soul could be reborn in <i><a href="/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra_(Jainism)" title="Saṃsāra (Jainism)">samsara</a></i>, the cycle of birth and death&#160;&#8211;&#32;<i><a href="/wiki/Svarga" title="Svarga">svarga</a></i> "heaven", <i><a href="/wiki/Naraka_(Jainism)" title="Naraka (Jainism)">naraka</a></i> "hell", <i>manushya</i> "humanity" or <i>tiryancha</i> "as flora or fauna"&#160;&#8211;&#32;before the soul attains <i><a href="/wiki/Moksha_(Jainism)" title="Moksha (Jainism)">moksha</a></i> "salvation" as a <i><a href="/wiki/Siddha#Siddha_in_Jainism" title="Siddha">siddha</a></i>, having ended the cycle of birth and death and become <a href="/wiki/Omniscience" title="Omniscience">omniscient</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cort_2001_17_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cort_2001_17-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p><div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prevalence_in_southern_Asia">Prevalence in southern Asia</h4></div> <p>In Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, the swastika is common. Temples, businesses and other organisations, such as the Buddhist libraries, <a href="/wiki/Ahmedabad_Stock_Exchange" title="Ahmedabad Stock Exchange">Ahmedabad Stock Exchange</a> and the Nepal Chamber of Commerce,<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> use the swastika in reliefs or logos.<sup id="cite_ref-lee86_123-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lee86-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Swastikas are ubiquitous in Indian and Nepalese communities, located on shops, buildings, transport vehicles, and clothing. The swastika remains prominent in Hindu ceremonies such as weddings. The left facing <i>sauwastika</i> symbol is found in tantric rituals.<sup id="cite_ref-britswast_1-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Musaeus_College" title="Musaeus College">Musaeus College</a> in Colombo, Sri Lanka, a Buddhist girls' school, has a left facing swastika in their school logo. </p><p> In India, <i>Swastik</i> and <i>Swastika</i>, with their spelling variants, are first names for males and females respectively, for instance with <a href="/wiki/Swastika_Mukherjee" title="Swastika Mukherjee">Swastika Mukherjee</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Emblem_of_Bihar" title="Emblem of Bihar">Emblem of Bihar</a> contains two swastikas.</p><div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <p>In Bhutan, swastika motifs are found in architecture, fabrics and religious ceremonies. </p><p>Among the predominantly Hindu population of <a href="/wiki/Bali" title="Bali">Bali</a>, in Indonesia, swastikas are common in temples, homes and public spaces. Similarly, the swastika is a common icon associated with Buddha's footprints in Theravada Buddhist communities of Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia.<sup id="cite_ref-lee86_123-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lee86-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Tantra" title="Tantra">Tantra</a>-based new religious movement <a href="/wiki/Ananda_Marga" title="Ananda Marga">Ananda Marga</a> (Devanagari: आनन्द मार्ग, meaning 'Path of Bliss') uses a motif similar to the Raëlians, but in their case the apparent star of David is defined as intersecting triangles with no specific reference to Jewish culture. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Torajan_pattern_-_pa%27sepu%27_to_Ronkong.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="One of common carving patterns of Torajan people in Indonesia."><img alt="One of common carving patterns of Torajan people in Indonesia." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Torajan_pattern_-_pa%27sepu%27_to_Ronkong.svg/120px-Torajan_pattern_-_pa%27sepu%27_to_Ronkong.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Torajan_pattern_-_pa%27sepu%27_to_Ronkong.svg/180px-Torajan_pattern_-_pa%27sepu%27_to_Ronkong.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Torajan_pattern_-_pa%27sepu%27_to_Ronkong.svg/240px-Torajan_pattern_-_pa%27sepu%27_to_Ronkong.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">One of common carving patterns of <a href="/wiki/Torajan_people" title="Torajan people">Torajan people</a> in Indonesia.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C4%80nanda_M%C4%81rga_Symbol.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The symbol of the Ananda Marga movement"><img alt="The symbol of the Ananda Marga movement" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/%C4%80nanda_M%C4%81rga_Symbol.svg/106px-%C4%80nanda_M%C4%81rga_Symbol.svg.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/%C4%80nanda_M%C4%81rga_Symbol.svg/159px-%C4%80nanda_M%C4%81rga_Symbol.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/%C4%80nanda_M%C4%81rga_Symbol.svg/211px-%C4%80nanda_M%C4%81rga_Symbol.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="454" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The symbol of the Ananda Marga movement</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Spread_to_eastern_Asia">Spread to eastern Asia</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Chinese_auspicious_ornaments_in_textile_and_clothing#Wan" title="Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing">Chinese auspicious ornaments in textile and clothing §&#160;Wan</a>; and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chinese_symbols,_designs,_and_art_motifs" title="List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs">List of Chinese symbols, designs, and art motifs</a></div> <p>The swastika is an auspicious symbol in China where it was introduced from India with <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pacificasiamuseum_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pacificasiamuseum-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 693, during the <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang dynasty</a>, it was declared as "the source of all good fortune" and was called <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">wan</i></span> by <a href="/wiki/Wu_Zetian" title="Wu Zetian">Wu Zetian</a> becoming a Chinese word.<sup id="cite_ref-pacificasiamuseum_125-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pacificasiamuseum-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Chinese character for <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">wan</i></span> (pinyin&#58; <i><span lang="zh-Latn">wàn</span></i>) is similar to a swastika in shape and has two different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">wan</i></span> (<span lang="zh">卐</span> or <span lang="zh">卍</span>) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (<span lang="zh">万</span>) and "infinity", as such the Chinese character is itself a symbol of immortality<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and infinity.<sup id="cite_ref-Dusenberry-2004_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dusenberry-2004-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 175">&#58;&#8202;175&#8202;</span></sup> It was also a representation of <a href="/wiki/Longevity" title="Longevity">longevity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dusenberry-2004_127-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dusenberry-2004-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 175">&#58;&#8202;175&#8202;</span></sup> </p><p>The Chinese character <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">wan</i></span> could be used as a stand-alone《<span lang="zh">卐</span>》or《<span lang="zh">卍</span>》or as be used as pairs《<span lang="zh">卐</span> <span lang="zh">卍</span>》in Chinese visual arts, decorative arts, and clothing due to its auspicious connotation.<sup id="cite_ref-Dusenberry-2004_127-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dusenberry-2004-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 175">&#58;&#8202;175&#8202;</span></sup> </p><p>Adding the character <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">wan</i></span> (<span lang="zh">卐</span> or <span lang="zh">卍</span>) to other auspicious Chinese symbols or patterns can multiply that wish by 10,000 times.<sup id="cite_ref-pacificasiamuseum_125-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pacificasiamuseum-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Dusenberry-2004_127-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dusenberry-2004-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 175">&#58;&#8202;175&#8202;</span></sup> It can be combined with other Chinese characters, such as the Chinese character <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shou_(character)" title="Shou (character)">shou</a></i></span>《壽》for longevity where it is sometimes even integrated into the Chinese character <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">shou</i></span> to augment the meaning of longevity.<sup id="cite_ref-Dusenberry-2004_127-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dusenberry-2004-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 175">&#58;&#8202;175&#8202;</span></sup> </p><p>The paired swastika symbols (<span lang="zh">卐</span> and <span lang="zh">卍</span>) are included, at least since the <a href="/wiki/Liao_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Liao Dynasty">Liao Dynasty</a> (907–1125 CE), as part of the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_character" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese character">Chinese writing system</a> and are <a href="/wiki/Variant_Chinese_characters" title="Variant Chinese characters">variant characters</a> for 《萬》 or 《万》 (<i>wàn</i> in Mandarin, 《만》(<i>man</i>) in Korean, Cantonese, and Japanese, <i>vạn</i> in Vietnamese) meaning "<a href="/wiki/Myriad" title="Myriad">myriad</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The character <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">wan</i></span> can also be stylized in the form of the <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Xiangyun_(Auspicious_clouds)" title="Xiangyun (Auspicious clouds)">xiangyun</a></i></span>, Chinese auspicious clouds. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Japanese_Crest_Maru_ni_Hidari_Mannji.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Japanese_Crest_Maru_ni_Hidari_Mannji.svg/110px-Japanese_Crest_Maru_ni_Hidari_Mannji.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Japanese_Crest_Maru_ni_Hidari_Mannji.svg/165px-Japanese_Crest_Maru_ni_Hidari_Mannji.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Japanese_Crest_Maru_ni_Hidari_Mannji.svg/220px-Japanese_Crest_Maru_ni_Hidari_Mannji.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="688" data-file-height="688" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Mon_(emblem)" title="Mon (emblem)">mon</a> (family crest) of the <a href="/wiki/Hachisuka_clan" title="Hachisuka clan">Hachisuka clan</a></figcaption></figure> <p>When the Chinese writing system was introduced to Japan in the 8th century, the swastika was adopted into the Japanese language and culture. It is commonly referred as the <i>manji</i> (lit. "10,000-character"). Since the Middle Ages, it has been used as a <i><a href="/wiki/Mon_(emblem)" title="Mon (emblem)">mon</a></i> by various Japanese families such as <a href="/wiki/Tsugaru_clan" title="Tsugaru clan">Tsugaru clan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hachisuka_clan" title="Hachisuka clan">Hachisuka clan</a> or around 60 clans that belong to <a href="/wiki/Tokugawa_clan" title="Tokugawa clan">Tokugawa clan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The city of <a href="/wiki/Hirosaki" title="Hirosaki">Hirosaki</a> in <a href="/wiki/Aomori_Prefecture" title="Aomori Prefecture">Aomori Prefecture</a> designates this symbol as its official flag, which stemmed from its use in the emblem of the <a href="/wiki/Tsugaru_clan" title="Tsugaru clan">Tsugaru clan</a>, the lords of <a href="/wiki/Hirosaki_Domain" title="Hirosaki Domain">Hirosaki Domain</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Edo_period" title="Edo period">Edo period</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>In Japan, the swastika is also used as a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Japanese_map_symbols" title="List of Japanese map symbols">map symbol</a> and is designated by the Survey Act and related Japanese governmental rules to denote a <a href="/wiki/Buddhist_temple" title="Buddhist temple">Buddhist temple</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Japan has considered changing this due to occasional controversy and misunderstanding by foreigners.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph290721_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph290721-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The symbol is sometimes censored in international versions of Japanese works, such as anime.<sup id="cite_ref-CBR-2021_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBR-2021-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Censorship of this symbol in Japan and in Japanese media abroad has been subject to occasional controversy related to freedom of speech, with critics of the censorship arguing it does not respect history nor freedom of speech.<sup id="cite_ref-telegraph290721_131-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-telegraph290721-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CBR-2021_132-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBR-2021-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sayagata.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Sayagata.svg/110px-Sayagata.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Sayagata.svg/165px-Sayagata.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Sayagata.svg/220px-Sayagata.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1653" data-file-height="1653" /></a><figcaption>Sayagata pattern</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Chinese_art" title="Chinese art">Chinese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Japanese_art" title="Japanese art">Japanese art</a>, swastikas are often found as part of a repeating pattern. One common pattern, called <i>sayagata</i> in Japanese, comprises left- and right-facing swastikas joined by lines.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As the negative space between the lines has a distinctive shape, the sayagata pattern is sometimes called the <i>key fret</i> motif in English.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>Many <a href="/wiki/Chinese_folk_religion" title="Chinese folk religion">Chinese religions</a> make use of swastika symbols, including <a href="/wiki/Guiyidao" title="Guiyidao">Guiyidao</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shanrendao" title="Shanrendao">Shanrendao</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society" title="Red Swastika Society">Red Swastika Society</a>, formed in China in 1922 as the philanthropic branch of Guiyidao, became the largest supplier of emergency relief in China during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, in the same manner as the <a href="/wiki/International_Red_Cross_and_Red_Crescent_Movement" title="International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement">Red Cross</a> in the rest of the world. The Red Swastika Society abandoned mainland China in 1954, settling first in Hong Kong then in Taiwan. They continue to use the red swastika as their symbol.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Falun_Gong" title="Falun Gong">Falun Gong</a> <a href="/wiki/Qigong" title="Qigong">qigong</a> movement, founded in China in the early 1990s, uses a symbol that features a large swastika surrounded by four smaller (and rounded) ones, interspersed with <a href="/wiki/Yin_and_yang" title="Yin and yang">yin-and-yang</a> symbols.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shou_Swastika.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chinese character wan integrated into one of the stylistic versions of the Chinese character shou"><img alt="Chinese character wan integrated into one of the stylistic versions of the Chinese character shou" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Shou_Swastika.svg/114px-Shou_Swastika.svg.png" decoding="async" width="114" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Shou_Swastika.svg/171px-Shou_Swastika.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Shou_Swastika.svg/228px-Shou_Swastika.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="421" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Chinese character <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn">wan</i></span> integrated into one of the stylistic versions of the Chinese character <span title="Chinese-language romanization"><i lang="zh-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Shou_(character)" title="Shou (character)">shou</a></i></span></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Robe,_dragon,_man%27s_(AM_9838-33).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Paired character wan on a dragon robe, Qing dynasty"><img alt="Paired character wan on a dragon robe, Qing dynasty" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Robe%2C_dragon%2C_man%27s_%28AM_9838-33%29.jpg/120px-Robe%2C_dragon%2C_man%27s_%28AM_9838-33%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Robe%2C_dragon%2C_man%27s_%28AM_9838-33%29.jpg/180px-Robe%2C_dragon%2C_man%27s_%28AM_9838-33%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Robe%2C_dragon%2C_man%27s_%28AM_9838-33%29.jpg/240px-Robe%2C_dragon%2C_man%27s_%28AM_9838-33%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="1944" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Paired character wan on a <a href="/wiki/Dragon_robe" title="Dragon robe">dragon robe</a>, Qing dynasty</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Swastika-seoel_(xndr).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Swastika on a temple in Korea"><img alt="Swastika on a temple in Korea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Swastika-seoel_%28xndr%29.jpg/120px-Swastika-seoel_%28xndr%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Swastika-seoel_%28xndr%29.jpg/180px-Swastika-seoel_%28xndr%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/Swastika-seoel_%28xndr%29.jpg/240px-Swastika-seoel_%28xndr%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1760" data-file-height="1141" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Swastika on a temple in Korea</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wanguo_Daodehui.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Symbol of Shanrendao, a Confucian-Taoism religious movement in Northeast China"><img alt="Symbol of Shanrendao, a Confucian-Taoism religious movement in Northeast China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Wanguo_Daodehui.svg/120px-Wanguo_Daodehui.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Wanguo_Daodehui.svg/180px-Wanguo_Daodehui.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Wanguo_Daodehui.svg/240px-Wanguo_Daodehui.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="450" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Symbol of <a href="/wiki/Shanrendao" title="Shanrendao">Shanrendao</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Taoism" title="Taoism">Confucian-Taoism</a> religious movement in Northeast China</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Red_swastika_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the Red Swastika Society, the largest emergency relief group in China during World War II"><img alt="Flag of the Red Swastika Society, the largest emergency relief group in China during World War II" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Red_swastika_flag.svg/120px-Red_swastika_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Red_swastika_flag.svg/180px-Red_swastika_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Red_swastika_flag.svg/240px-Red_swastika_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Red_Swastika_Society" title="Red Swastika Society">Red Swastika Society</a>, the largest emergency relief group in China during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Saisiyat_pattern_of_the_Goddess_of_Thunder.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The pattern of the Goddess of Thunder (wa:on) of Saisiyat people in Taiwan."><img alt="The pattern of the Goddess of Thunder (wa:on) of Saisiyat people in Taiwan." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Saisiyat_pattern_of_the_Goddess_of_Thunder.jpg/120px-Saisiyat_pattern_of_the_Goddess_of_Thunder.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Saisiyat_pattern_of_the_Goddess_of_Thunder.jpg/180px-Saisiyat_pattern_of_the_Goddess_of_Thunder.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Saisiyat_pattern_of_the_Goddess_of_Thunder.jpg/240px-Saisiyat_pattern_of_the_Goddess_of_Thunder.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The pattern of the Goddess of Thunder (wa:on) of <a href="/wiki/Saisiyat_people" title="Saisiyat people">Saisiyat people</a> in Taiwan.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Falun_Gong_Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The symbol of the Falun Gong movement"><img alt="The symbol of the Falun Gong movement" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Falun_Gong_Logo.svg/120px-Falun_Gong_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Falun_Gong_Logo.svg/180px-Falun_Gong_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Falun_Gong_Logo.svg/240px-Falun_Gong_Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="443" data-file-height="443" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The symbol of the Falun Gong movement</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Classical_Europe">Classical Europe</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ott%C5%AFv_slovn%C3%ADk_nau%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_-_obr%C3%A1zek_%C4%8D._2643.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Ott%C5%AFv_slovn%C3%ADk_nau%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_-_obr%C3%A1zek_%C4%8D._2643.svg/220px-Ott%C5%AFv_slovn%C3%ADk_nau%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_-_obr%C3%A1zek_%C4%8D._2643.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="422" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Ott%C5%AFv_slovn%C3%ADk_nau%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_-_obr%C3%A1zek_%C4%8D._2643.svg/330px-Ott%C5%AFv_slovn%C3%ADk_nau%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_-_obr%C3%A1zek_%C4%8D._2643.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Ott%C5%AFv_slovn%C3%ADk_nau%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_-_obr%C3%A1zek_%C4%8D._2643.svg/440px-Ott%C5%AFv_slovn%C3%ADk_nau%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_-_obr%C3%A1zek_%C4%8D._2643.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="920" /></a><figcaption>Various <a href="/wiki/Meander_(art)" title="Meander (art)">meander</a> patterns, a.k.a. <i>Greek keys</i></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> architectural, clothing and coin designs are replete with single or interlinking swastika motifs. There are also gold plate <a href="/wiki/Fibula_(brooch)" title="Fibula (brooch)">fibulae</a> from the 8th century BCE decorated with an engraved swastika.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Related symbols in classical Western architecture include the cross, the three-legged triskele or <a href="/wiki/Triskelion" title="Triskelion">triskelion</a> and the rounded <a href="/wiki/Lauburu" title="Lauburu">lauburu</a>. The swastika symbol is also known in these contexts by a number of names, especially <i>gammadion</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or rather the tetra-gammadion. The name <i>gammadion</i> comes from its being seen as being made up of four Greek <a href="/wiki/Gamma" title="Gamma">gamma</a> (Γ) letters. Ancient Greek architectural designs are replete with the interlinking symbol. </p><p>In <a href="/wiki/Art_in_Ancient_Greece" class="mw-redirect" title="Art in Ancient Greece">Greco-Roman</a> art and architecture, and in <a href="/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gothic_art" title="Gothic art">Gothic art</a> in the West, isolated swastikas are relatively rare, and the swastika is more commonly found as a repeated element in a border or tessellation. Swastikas often represented perpetual motion, reflecting the design of a rotating windmill or watermill. A meander of connected swastikas makes up the large band that surrounds the <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustan</a> <a href="/wiki/Ara_Pacis" title="Ara Pacis">Ara Pacis</a>. </p><p>A design of interlocking swastikas is one of several <a href="/wiki/Tessellation" title="Tessellation">tessellations</a> on the floor of the <a href="/wiki/Amiens_Cathedral" title="Amiens Cathedral">cathedral</a> of <a href="/wiki/Amiens" title="Amiens">Amiens</a>, France.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A border of linked swastikas was a common Roman architectural motif,<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and can be seen in more recent buildings as a neoclassical element. A swastika border is one form of <a href="/wiki/Meander_(art)" title="Meander (art)">meander</a>, and the individual swastikas in such a border are sometimes called <a href="/wiki/Meander_(art)" title="Meander (art)"><i>Greek keys</i></a>. There have also been swastikas found on the floors of <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tetraskele.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Greek tetraskelion (lauburu)"><img alt="Greek tetraskelion (lauburu)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tetraskele.svg/120px-Tetraskele.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tetraskele.svg/180px-Tetraskele.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tetraskele.svg/240px-Tetraskele.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Greek tetraskelion (<a href="/wiki/Lauburu" title="Lauburu">lauburu</a>)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Greek_Silver_Stater_of_Corinth.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Swastika on a Greek silver stater coin from Corinth, 6th century BCE"><img alt="Swastika on a Greek silver stater coin from Corinth, 6th century BCE" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Greek_Silver_Stater_of_Corinth.jpg/120px-Greek_Silver_Stater_of_Corinth.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="62" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Greek_Silver_Stater_of_Corinth.jpg/180px-Greek_Silver_Stater_of_Corinth.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Greek_Silver_Stater_of_Corinth.jpg/240px-Greek_Silver_Stater_of_Corinth.jpg 2x" data-file-width="778" data-file-height="402" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Swastika on a Greek silver <a href="/wiki/Stater" title="Stater">stater</a> coin from <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Corinth" title="Ancient Corinth">Corinth</a>, 6th century BCE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ancient_Roman_Mosaics_Villa_Romana_La_Olmeda_007_Pedrosa_De_La_Vega_-_Salda%C3%B1a_(Palencia).JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Roman mosaic of La Olmeda, Spain"><img alt="Roman mosaic of La Olmeda, Spain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Ancient_Roman_Mosaics_Villa_Romana_La_Olmeda_007_Pedrosa_De_La_Vega_-_Salda%C3%B1a_%28Palencia%29.JPG/120px-Ancient_Roman_Mosaics_Villa_Romana_La_Olmeda_007_Pedrosa_De_La_Vega_-_Salda%C3%B1a_%28Palencia%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Ancient_Roman_Mosaics_Villa_Romana_La_Olmeda_007_Pedrosa_De_La_Vega_-_Salda%C3%B1a_%28Palencia%29.JPG/180px-Ancient_Roman_Mosaics_Villa_Romana_La_Olmeda_007_Pedrosa_De_La_Vega_-_Salda%C3%B1a_%28Palencia%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Ancient_Roman_Mosaics_Villa_Romana_La_Olmeda_007_Pedrosa_De_La_Vega_-_Salda%C3%B1a_%28Palencia%29.JPG/240px-Ancient_Roman_Mosaics_Villa_Romana_La_Olmeda_007_Pedrosa_De_La_Vega_-_Salda%C3%B1a_%28Palencia%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1936" data-file-height="1296" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Roman mosaic of <a href="/wiki/La_Olmeda" title="La Olmeda">La Olmeda</a>, Spain</div> </li> </ul> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stele_daunienne_mariemont.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Stele_daunienne_mariemont.JPG/170px-Stele_daunienne_mariemont.JPG" decoding="async" width="170" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Stele_daunienne_mariemont.JPG/255px-Stele_daunienne_mariemont.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Stele_daunienne_mariemont.JPG/340px-Stele_daunienne_mariemont.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1569" data-file-height="2647" /></a><figcaption>610-550 BC <a href="/wiki/Daunians" title="Daunians">Daunian</a> <a href="/wiki/Daunian_stele" title="Daunian stele">funerary stele</a> from <a href="/wiki/Apulia" title="Apulia">Apulia</a> showing <a href="/wiki/Albanian_traditional_tattooing#History" title="Albanian traditional tattooing">Paleo-Balkan tattooing</a>. The stele depicts crosses and swastikas.</figcaption></figure> <p>Swastikas were widespread among the <a href="/wiki/Illyrians" title="Illyrians">Illyrians</a>, symbolising the Sun and the fire. The Sun cult was the main Illyrian cult; a swastika in clockwise motion is interpreted in particular as a representation of the movement of the Sun.<sup id="cite_ref-Stipčević_99-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stipčević-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The swastika has been preserved by the <a href="/wiki/Albanians" title="Albanians">Albanians</a> since Illyrian times as a <a href="/wiki/Albanian_paganism" title="Albanian paganism">pagan</a> symbol commonly found in a variety of contexts of Albanian folk art, including <a href="/wiki/Albanian_traditional_tattooing" title="Albanian traditional tattooing">traditional tattooing</a>, grave art, jewellery, clothes, and house carvings. The swastika (<a href="/wiki/Albanian_language" title="Albanian language">Albanian</a>: <i lang="sq">kryqi grepç</i> or <span title="Albanian-language text"><i lang="sq">kryqi i thyer</i></span>, "hooked cross") and other crosses in Albanian tradition represent the Sun (<a href="/wiki/Dielli_(Albanian_paganism)" title="Dielli (Albanian paganism)">Dielli</a>) and the fire (<a href="/wiki/Zjarri_(Albanian_paganism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Zjarri (Albanian paganism)">zjarri</a>, evidently called with the theonym <a href="/wiki/Enji_(deity)" title="Enji (deity)">Enji</a>). In <a href="/wiki/Albanian_paganism" title="Albanian paganism">Albanian paganism</a> fire is regarded as the offspring of the Sun and fire calendar rituals are practiced in order to give strength to the Sun and to <a href="/wiki/Apotropaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Apotropaic">ward off evil</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETreimer197132_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETreimer197132-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETirta200469–70,_75,_80,_113,_116,_250_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETirta200469–70,_75,_80,_113,_116,_250-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_and_early_modern_Europe">Medieval and early modern Europe</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</h4></div> <p>In Christianity, the swastika is used as a hooked version of the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Cross" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian Cross">Christian Cross</a>, the symbol of Christ's victory over death. Some Christian churches built in the <a href="/wiki/Romanesque_architecture" title="Romanesque architecture">Romanesque</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gothic_architecture" title="Gothic architecture">Gothic</a> eras are decorated with swastikas, carrying over earlier Roman designs. Swastikas are prominently displayed in a <a href="/wiki/Mosaic" title="Mosaic">mosaic</a> in the St. Sophia church of <a href="/wiki/Kyiv" title="Kyiv">Kyiv</a>, Ukraine dating from the 12th century. They also appear as a repeating ornamental motif on a tomb in the Basilica of St. Ambrose in <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-145" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A ceiling painted in 1910 in the church of St Laurent in <a href="/wiki/Grenoble" title="Grenoble">Grenoble</a> has many swastikas. It can be visited today because the church became the archaeological museum of the city. A proposed direct link between it and a swastika floor mosaic in the <a href="/wiki/Cathedral_of_Our_Lady_of_Amiens" class="mw-redirect" title="Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens">Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens</a>, which was built on top of a pagan site at <a href="/wiki/Amiens" title="Amiens">Amiens</a>, France in the 13th century, is considered unlikely. The <a href="/wiki/Stole_(vestment)" title="Stole (vestment)">stole</a> worn by a priest in the 1445 <a href="/wiki/Seven_Sacraments_Altarpiece" title="Seven Sacraments Altarpiece">painting of the Seven Sacraments</a> by <a href="/wiki/Rogier_van_der_Weyden" title="Rogier van der Weyden">Rogier van der Weyden</a> presents the swastika form simply as one way of depicting the cross. </p><p>Swastikas also appear in art and architecture during the <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baroque" title="Baroque">Baroque</a> era. The fresco <i>The School of Athens</i> shows an ornament made out of swastikas, and the symbol can also be found on the facade of the <i>Santa Maria della Salute</i>, a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of <a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a>. </p><p>In the Polish First Republic swastika symbols were also popular with the nobility. Several noble houses, e.g. Boreyko, Borzym, and Radziechowski from Ruthenia, also had swastikas as their <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a>. The family reached its greatness in the 14th and 15th centuries and its crest can be seen in many heraldry books produced at that time. </p><p>The swastika was also a heraldic symbol, for example on the <a href="/wiki/Boreyko_coat_of_arms" title="Boreyko coat of arms">Boreyko coat of arms</a>, used by noblemen in Poland and Ukraine. In the 19th century a swastika was one of the Russian Empire's symbols and was used on coinage as a backdrop to the <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Russia#1721–1917:_Russian_Empire" title="Coat of arms of Russia">Russian eagle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ruskolan.xpomo.com_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ruskolan.xpomo.com-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bashkort_symbol_of_Sun.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bashkirs symbol of the sun and fertility"><img alt="Bashkirs symbol of the sun and fertility" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Bashkort_symbol_of_Sun.svg/120px-Bashkort_symbol_of_Sun.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Bashkort_symbol_of_Sun.svg/180px-Bashkort_symbol_of_Sun.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Bashkort_symbol_of_Sun.svg/240px-Bashkort_symbol_of_Sun.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Bashkirs" title="Bashkirs">Bashkirs</a> symbol of the sun and fertility</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ShaveyZion1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Mosaic swastika in an excavated Byzantine church in Shavei Tzion, (Israel)"><img alt="Mosaic swastika in an excavated Byzantine church in Shavei Tzion, (Israel)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/ShaveyZion1.jpg/120px-ShaveyZion1.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/ShaveyZion1.jpg/180px-ShaveyZion1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/ShaveyZion1.jpg/240px-ShaveyZion1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1336" data-file-height="1220" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Mosaic swastika in an excavated <a href="/wiki/Byzantine" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine">Byzantine</a> church in <a href="/wiki/Shavei_Tzion" title="Shavei Tzion">Shavei Tzion</a>, (Israel)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Jewish_swastika.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A swastika composed of Hebrew letters as a mystical symbol from the Jewish Kabbalistic work &quot;Parashat Eliezer&quot;, from the 18th century or earlier"><img alt="A swastika composed of Hebrew letters as a mystical symbol from the Jewish Kabbalistic work &quot;Parashat Eliezer&quot;, from the 18th century or earlier" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Jewish_swastika.jpg/120px-Jewish_swastika.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="112" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Jewish_swastika.jpg/180px-Jewish_swastika.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Jewish_swastika.jpg/240px-Jewish_swastika.jpg 2x" data-file-width="438" data-file-height="407" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A swastika composed of Hebrew letters as a mystical symbol from the Jewish <a href="/wiki/Kabbalah" title="Kabbalah">Kabbalistic</a> work "Parashat Eliezer", from the 18th century or earlier</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Winchestercathedralheadonwilliamedingtontomb_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Swastikas on the vestments of the effigy of Bishop William Edington (d. 1366) in Winchester Cathedral"><img alt="Swastikas on the vestments of the effigy of Bishop William Edington (d. 1366) in Winchester Cathedral" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Winchestercathedralheadonwilliamedingtontomb_crop.jpg/120px-Winchestercathedralheadonwilliamedingtontomb_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Winchestercathedralheadonwilliamedingtontomb_crop.jpg/180px-Winchestercathedralheadonwilliamedingtontomb_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Winchestercathedralheadonwilliamedingtontomb_crop.jpg/240px-Winchestercathedralheadonwilliamedingtontomb_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2887" data-file-height="1901" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Swastikas on the vestments of the effigy of Bishop <a href="/wiki/William_Edington" title="William Edington">William Edington</a> (d. 1366) in <a href="/wiki/Winchester_Cathedral" title="Winchester Cathedral">Winchester Cathedral</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Swastika_Stone,_Ilkley_(reproduction)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_48282.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Victorian-era reproduction of the Swastika Stone on Ilkley Moor, which sits near the original to aid visitors in interpreting the carving"><img alt="The Victorian-era reproduction of the Swastika Stone on Ilkley Moor, which sits near the original to aid visitors in interpreting the carving" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Swastika_Stone%2C_Ilkley_%28reproduction%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_48282.jpg/120px-Swastika_Stone%2C_Ilkley_%28reproduction%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_48282.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Swastika_Stone%2C_Ilkley_%28reproduction%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_48282.jpg/180px-Swastika_Stone%2C_Ilkley_%28reproduction%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_48282.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Swastika_Stone%2C_Ilkley_%28reproduction%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_48282.jpg/240px-Swastika_Stone%2C_Ilkley_%28reproduction%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_48282.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Victorian-era reproduction of the <a href="/wiki/Swastika_Stone" title="Swastika Stone">Swastika Stone</a> on <a href="/wiki/Ilkley_Moor" title="Ilkley Moor">Ilkley Moor</a>, which sits near the original to aid visitors in interpreting the carving</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Rediscovery_by_Heinrich_Schliemann">Rediscovery by Heinrich Schliemann</h4></div> <p>At <a href="/wiki/Troy" title="Troy">Troy</a> near the <a href="/wiki/Dardanelles" title="Dardanelles">Dardanelles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Schliemann" title="Heinrich Schliemann">Heinrich Schliemann</a>'s 1871–1875 <a href="/wiki/Archaeological_excavations" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeological excavations">archaeological excavations</a> discovered objects decorated with swastikas.<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1875_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1875-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 101–105">&#58;&#8202;101–105&#8202;</span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Boxer-2000_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boxer-2000-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Heller-2000_149-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heller-2000-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 31">&#58;&#8202;31&#8202;</span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Quinn-1994_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quinn-1994-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 31">&#58;&#8202;31&#8202;</span></sup> Hearing of this, the director of the <a href="/wiki/French_School_at_Athens" title="French School at Athens">French School at Athens</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile-Louis_Burnouf" title="Émile-Louis Burnouf">Émile-Louis Burnouf</a>, wrote to Schliemann in 1872, stating "the Swastika should be regarded as a sign of the <a href="/wiki/Aryan_race" title="Aryan race">Aryan race</a>". Burnouf told Schliemann that "It should also be noted that the Jews have completely rejected it".<sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 89">&#58;&#8202;89&#8202;</span></sup> Accordingly, Schliemann believed the Trojans to have been Aryans: "The primitive Trojans, therefore, belonged to the Aryan race, which is further sufficiently proved by the symbols on the round terra-cottas".<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1875_147-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1875-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 157">&#58;&#8202;157&#8202;</span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 90">&#58;&#8202;90&#8202;</span></sup> Schliemann accepted Burnouf's interpretation.<sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 89">&#58;&#8202;89&#8202;</span></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>This winter, I have read in Athens many excellent works of celebrated scholars on Indian antiquities, especially <a href="/wiki/Adalbert_Kuhn" class="mw-redirect" title="Adalbert Kuhn">Adalbert Kuhn</a>, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Die Herakunft des Feuers</i></span>; <a href="/wiki/Max_M%C3%BCller" title="Max Müller">Max Müller</a>'s <i>Essays</i>; <a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile_Burnouf" class="mw-redirect" title="Émile Burnouf">Émile Burnouf</a>, <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">La Science des Religions</i></span> and <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Essai sur le Vêda</i></span>; as well as several works by <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Burnouf" title="Eugène Burnouf">Eugène Burnouf</a>; and I now perceive that these crosses upon the Trojan terra-cottas are of the highest importance to archæology.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Heinrich Schliemann, <i>Troy and Its Remains</i>, 1875<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1875_147-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1875-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 101">&#58;&#8202;101&#8202;</span></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Schliemann believed that use of swastikas spread widely across Eurasia.<sup id="cite_ref-152" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>… I am now able to prove that … the 卍, which I find in Émile Burnouf's Sanscrit lexicon, under the name of "<i>suastika</i>," and with the meaning <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">εὖ ἐστι</span></span>, or as the sign of good wishes, were already regarded, thousands of years before Christ, as religious symbols of the very greatest importance among the early progenitors of the Aryan races in <a href="/wiki/Bactria" title="Bactria">Bactria</a> and in the villages of the <a href="/wiki/Oxus" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxus">Oxus</a>, at a time when <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">Germans</a>, Indians, <a href="/wiki/Pelasgians" title="Pelasgians">Pelasgians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Celts" title="Celts">Celts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persians" title="Persians">Persians</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slavonians" class="mw-redirect" title="Slavonians">Slavonians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Iranian_peoples" title="Iranian peoples">Iranians</a> still formed one nation and spoke one language.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Heinrich Schliemann, <i>Troy and Its Remains</i>, 1875<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1875_147-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1875-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 101–102">&#58;&#8202;101–102&#8202;</span></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Schliemann established a link between the swastika and Germany. He connected objects he excavated at Troy to objects bearing swastikas found in Germany near <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6nigswalde" title="Königswalde">Königswalde</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Oder" title="Oder">Oder</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Boxer-2000_148-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boxer-2000-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Heller-2000_149-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heller-2000-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 31">&#58;&#8202;31&#8202;</span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Quinn-1994_150-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Quinn-1994-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 31">&#58;&#8202;31&#8202;</span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 90">&#58;&#8202;90&#8202;</span></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie,_3.1871,_Taf._VI_(cropped).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie%2C_3.1871%2C_Taf._VI_%28cropped%29.png/220px-Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie%2C_3.1871%2C_Taf._VI_%28cropped%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie%2C_3.1871%2C_Taf._VI_%28cropped%29.png/330px-Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie%2C_3.1871%2C_Taf._VI_%28cropped%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie%2C_3.1871%2C_Taf._VI_%28cropped%29.png/440px-Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie%2C_3.1871%2C_Taf._VI_%28cropped%29.png 2x" data-file-width="4896" data-file-height="3267" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Lithograph" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithograph">Lithograph</a> of <a href="/wiki/Potsherds" class="mw-redirect" title="Potsherds">potsherds</a> found at Bishop's Island (German: <i lang="de">Bischofsinsel</i>) near <a href="/wiki/K%C3%B6nigswalde" title="Königswalde">Königswalde</a> and published in <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (page does not exist)">Zeitschrift für Ethnologie</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;">&#160;&#91;<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Ethnologie" class="extiw" title="de:Zeitschrift für Ethnologie">de</a>&#93;</span></i> in 1871. Schliemann believed the motif on the potsherd in figure 1 to be a swastika.</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>For I recognise at the first glance the "suastika" upon one of those three pot bottoms, which were discovered on Bishop's Island near Königswalde on the right bank of the Oder, and have given rise to very many learned discussions, while no one recognised the mark as that exceedingly significant religious symbol of our remote ancestors.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Heinrich Schliemann, <i>Troy and Its Remains</i>, 1875<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1875_147-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1875-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 102">&#58;&#8202;102&#8202;</span></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Boxer" title="Sarah Boxer">Sarah Boxer</a>, in an article in 2000 in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, described this as a "fateful link".<sup id="cite_ref-Boxer-2000_148-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Boxer-2000-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Steven_Heller_(design_writer)" title="Steven Heller (design writer)">Steven Heller</a>, "Schliemann presumed that the swastika was a religious symbol of his German ancestors which linked ancient <a href="/wiki/Teutons" title="Teutons">Teutons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Homeric" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeric">Homeric</a> Greeks and <a href="/wiki/Vedic_India" class="mw-redirect" title="Vedic India">Vedic India</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Heller-2000_149-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heller-2000-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 31">&#58;&#8202;31&#8202;</span></sup> According to Bernard Mees, "Of all of the pre-runic symbols, the swastika has always been the most popular among scholars" and "The origin of swastika studies must be traced to the excitement generated by the archaeological finds of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMees200857_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMees200857-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his excavations at Troy, Schliemann began digging at <a href="/wiki/Mycenae" title="Mycenae">Mycenae</a>. According to Cathy Gere, "Having burdened the swastika symbol with such cultural, religious and racial significance in <i>Troy and Its Remains</i>, it was incumbent on Schliemann to find the symbol repeated at Mycenae, but its occurrence turned out to be disappointingly infrequent".<sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 91">&#58;&#8202;91&#8202;</span></sup> Gere writes that "He did his best with what he had":<sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 91">&#58;&#8202;91&#8202;</span></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The cross with the marks of four nails may often be seen; as well as the 卍, which is usually also represented with four points indicating the four nails, thus ࿘. These signs cannot but represent the <i>suastika</i>, formed by two pieces of wood, which were laid across and fixed with four nails, and in the joint of which the holy fire was produced by friction by a third piece of wood. But both the cross and the 卍 occur for the most part only on the vases with geometrical patterns.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Heinrich Schliemann, <i>Mycenæ</i>, 1878<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1878_154-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1878-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 66–68">&#58;&#8202;66–68&#8202;</span></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Gere points out that although Schliemann wrote that the motif "may often be seen", his 1878 book <i>Mycenæ</i> did not have illustrations of any examples.<sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 91">&#58;&#8202;91&#8202;</span></sup> Schliemann described "a small and thick terra-cotta disk" on which "are engraved a number of 卍's, the sign which occurs so frequently in the ruins of Troy", but as Gere notes, he did not publish an illustration.<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1878_154-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1878-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 77">&#58;&#8202;77&#8202;</span></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 91">&#58;&#8202;91&#8202;</span></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gold_roundels_from_Grave_Circle_A,_Grave_III_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gold_roundels_from_Grave_Circle_A%2C_Grave_III_01.jpg/220px-Gold_roundels_from_Grave_Circle_A%2C_Grave_III_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gold_roundels_from_Grave_Circle_A%2C_Grave_III_01.jpg/330px-Gold_roundels_from_Grave_Circle_A%2C_Grave_III_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Gold_roundels_from_Grave_Circle_A%2C_Grave_III_01.jpg/440px-Gold_roundels_from_Grave_Circle_A%2C_Grave_III_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Gold <i><a href="/wiki/Repouss%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Repoussé">repoussé</a></i> roundel from grave III of <a href="/wiki/Grave_Circle_A,_Mycenae" title="Grave Circle A, Mycenae">Grave Circle A</a>, whose central motif Schliemann thought "derived" from the swastika.<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1878_154-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1878-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 165–166">&#58;&#8202;165–166&#8202;</span></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Among the <a href="/wiki/Gold_grave_goods_at_Grave_Circles_A_and_B" title="Gold grave goods at Grave Circles A and B">gold grave goods at Grave Circles A and B</a> was a <i><a href="/wiki/Repouss%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Repoussé">repoussé</a></i> roundel in grave III of <a href="/wiki/Grave_Circle_A,_Mycenae" title="Grave Circle A, Mycenae">Grave Circle A</a>, the ornamentation of which Schliemann thought was "derived" from the swastika: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The curious ornamentation in the centre, which so often recurs here, seems to me to be derived from the ࿘, the more so as the points which are thought to be the marks of the nails, are seldom missing; the artist has only added two more arms and curved all of them.</p><div class="templatequotecite">—&#8202;<cite>Heinrich Schliemann, <i>Mycenæ</i>, 1878<sup id="cite_ref-Schliemann_1878_154-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Schliemann_1878-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 165–166">&#58;&#8202;165–166&#8202;</span></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>According to Gere, this motif is "completely dissimilar" to the swastika, and that Schliemann was "straining desperately after the same connection".<sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 91">&#58;&#8202;91&#8202;</span></sup> Nevertheless, the <a href="/wiki/Mycenaean_Greeks" class="mw-redirect" title="Mycenaean Greeks">Mycenaean Greeks</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Trojan people">Trojan people</a> both came to be identified as representatives of the Aryan race: "Despite the difficulties with linking the symbolism of Troy and Mycenae, the common Aryan roots of the two peoples became something of a truism".<sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 91">&#58;&#8202;91&#8202;</span></sup> </p><p>The house Schliemann had had built in <a href="/wiki/Panepistimiou_Street" title="Panepistimiou Street">Panepistimiou Street</a> in Athens by 1880, <a href="/wiki/Iliou_Melathron" class="mw-redirect" title="Iliou Melathron">Iliou Melathron</a>, is decorated with swastika symbols and motifs in numerous places, including the ironwork railing and gates, the window bars, the ceiling fresco of the entrance hall, and the entire floor of one room.<sup id="cite_ref-Gere-2006_151-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gere-2006-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Pages: 117–123">&#58;&#8202;117–123&#8202;</span></sup> </p><p>Following Schliemann, academic studies on the swastika were published by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludvig_M%C3%BCller_(numismatist)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Ludvig Müller (numismatist) (page does not exist)">Ludvig Müller</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;">&#160;&#91;<a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_M%C3%BCller_(numismatiker)" class="extiw" title="da:Ludvig Müller (numismatiker)">da</a>&#93;</span>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Micha%C5%82_%C5%BBmigrodzki&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Michał Żmigrodzki (page does not exist)">Michał Żmigrodzki</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Goblet_d%27Alviella" title="Eugène Goblet d&#39;Alviella">Eugène Goblet d'Alviella</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Wilson_(anthropologist)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas Wilson (anthropologist) (page does not exist)">Thomas Wilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Montelius" title="Oscar Montelius">Oscar Montelius</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_D%C3%A9chelette" title="Joseph Déchelette">Joseph Déchelette</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMees200857_153-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMees200857-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Post-Schliemann_popularity">Post-Schliemann popularity</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in_the_early_20th_century" title="Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century">Western use of the swastika in the early 20th century</a></div> <p>The swastika (gammadion, fylfot) symbol became a popular symbol in the Western world in the early 20th century, and was often used for ornamentation. </p><p>The Benedictine choir school at <a href="/wiki/Lambach_Abbey" title="Lambach Abbey">Lambach Abbey</a>, Upper Austria, which Hitler attended for several months as a boy, had a swastika chiseled into the monastery portal and also the wall above the spring grotto in the courtyard by 1868. Their origin was the personal <a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms" title="Coat of arms">coat of arms</a> of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Theoderich_Hagn&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Theoderich Hagn (page does not exist)">Theoderich Hagn</a>, abbot of the monastery in Lambach, which bore a golden swastika with slanted points on a blue field.<sup id="cite_ref-155" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The British author and poet <a href="/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling" title="Rudyard Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a> used the symbol on the cover art of a number of his works, including <i><a href="/wiki/The_Five_Nations" title="The Five Nations">The Five Nations</a></i>, 1903, which has it twinned with an elephant. Once Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power, Kipling ordered that swastikas should no longer adorn his books.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> In 1927, a red swastika <a href="/wiki/Defacement_(flag)" title="Defacement (flag)">defaced</a> by a Union Jack was proposed as a flag for the <a href="/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa" title="Union of South Africa">Union of South Africa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-156" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The logo of <a href="/wiki/Eimskip" title="Eimskip">H/f. Eimskipafjelag Íslands</a><sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was a swastika, called "Thor's hammer", from its founding in 1914 until the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a> when it was discontinued and changed to read only the letters Eimskip. </p><p>The swastika was also used by the women's paramilitary organisation <a href="/wiki/Lotta_Sv%C3%A4rd" title="Lotta Svärd">Lotta Svärd</a>, which was banned in 1944 in accordance with the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Armistice" title="Moscow Armistice">Moscow Armistice</a> between Finland and the <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">allied</a> <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and Britain. </p><p>Also, the insignias of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Cross_of_Liberty" title="Order of the Cross of Liberty">Cross of Liberty</a>, designed by Gallen-Kallela in 1918, have swastikas. The 3rd class Cross of Liberty is depicted in the upper left corner of the standard of the President of Finland, who is the grand master of the order, too.<sup id="cite_ref-158" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Roundel_of_Latvia_(1926-1940).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Roundel_of_Latvia_%281926-1940%29.svg/110px-Roundel_of_Latvia_%281926-1940%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Roundel_of_Latvia_%281926-1940%29.svg/165px-Roundel_of_Latvia_%281926-1940%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Roundel_of_Latvia_%281926-1940%29.svg/220px-Roundel_of_Latvia_%281926-1940%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a><figcaption>Latvian Air Force roundel until 1940</figcaption></figure> <p>Latvia adopted the swastika, for its <a href="/wiki/Latvian_Air_Force" title="Latvian Air Force">Air Force</a> in 1918/1919 and continued its use until the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Latvia_in_1940" title="Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940">Soviet occupation</a> in 1940.<sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The cross itself was maroon on a white background, mirroring the colours of the Latvian flag. Earlier versions pointed counter-clockwise, while later versions pointed clock-wise and eliminated the white background.<sup id="cite_ref-161" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Various other <a href="/wiki/Latvian_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Latvian Army">Latvian Army</a> units and the Latvian War College<sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (the predecessor of the <a href="/wiki/National_Defence_Academy_of_Latvia" title="National Defence Academy of Latvia">National Defence Academy</a>) also had adopted the symbol in their battle flags and insignia during the <a href="/wiki/Latvian_War_of_Independence" title="Latvian War of Independence">Latvian War of Independence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-164" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A stylised fire cross is the base of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_L%C4%81%C4%8Dpl%C4%93sis" title="Order of Lāčplēsis">Order of Lāčplēsis</a>, the highest military decoration of Latvia for participants of the War of Independence.<sup id="cite_ref-165" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/P%C4%93rkonkrusts" title="Pērkonkrusts">Pērkonkrusts</a>, an ultra-nationalist political organisation active in the 1930s, also used the fire cross as one of its symbols. </p><p>The swastika symbol (<a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_language" title="Lithuanian language">Lithuanian</a>: <i>sūkurėlis</i>) is a traditional Baltic ornament,<sup id="cite_ref-Guénon-2001_109-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guénon-2001-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-166" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> found on relics dating from at least the 13th century.<sup id="cite_ref-Sarmatas_167-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarmatas-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <i>sūkurėlis</i> for Lithuanians represents the history and memory of their Lithuanian ancestors as well as the <a href="/wiki/Balts" title="Balts">Baltic people</a> at large.<sup id="cite_ref-Sarmatas_167-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarmatas-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There are monuments in Lithuania such as the Freedom Monument in <a href="/wiki/Roki%C5%A1kis" title="Rokiškis">Rokiškis</a> where swastikas can be found.<sup id="cite_ref-Sarmatas_167-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sarmatas-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Starting in 1917, <a href="/wiki/Mikal_Sylten" title="Mikal Sylten">Mikal Sylten</a>'s staunchly <a href="/wiki/Antisemitic" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitic">antisemitic</a> periodical, <i><a href="/wiki/Nationalt_Tidsskrift_(magazine)" title="Nationalt Tidsskrift (magazine)">Nationalt Tidsskrift</a></i> took up the swastika as a symbol, three years before <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> chose to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-ØS_168-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ØS-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The left-handed swastika was a favourite sign of the last Russian Empress <a href="/wiki/Alexandra_Feodorovna_(Alix_of_Hesse)" title="Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)">Alexandra Feodorovna</a>. She wore a talisman in the form of a swastika, put it everywhere for happiness, including on her suicide letters from <a href="/wiki/Tobolsk" title="Tobolsk">Tobolsk</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-169" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> later drew with a pencil on the wall and in the window opening of the room in the <a href="/wiki/Ipatiev_House" title="Ipatiev House">Ipatiev House</a>, which served as the place of the last imprisonment of the royal family and on the wallpaper above the bed.<sup id="cite_ref-170" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Russian_Provisional_Government" title="Russian Provisional Government">Russian Provisional Government</a> of 1917 printed a number of new bank notes with right-facing, diagonally rotated swastikas in their centres.<sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The banknote design was initially intended for the Mongolian national bank but was re-purposed for <a href="/wiki/Russian_ruble" title="Russian ruble">Russian rubles</a> after the February revolution. Swastikas were depicted and on some Soviet credit cards (<a href="/wiki/Sovznak" title="Sovznak">sovznaks</a>) printed with clichés that were in circulation in 1918–1922.<sup id="cite_ref-172" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Civil_War" title="Russian Civil War">Russian Civil War</a>, swastikas were present in the symbolism of the uniform of some units of the <a href="/wiki/White_Army" title="White Army">White Army</a> <a href="/wiki/Asiatic_Cavalry_Division" title="Asiatic Cavalry Division">Asiatic Cavalry Division</a> of <a href="/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg" title="Roman von Ungern-Sternberg">Baron Ungern</a> in Siberia and <a href="/wiki/Bogd_Khanate_of_Mongolia" title="Bogd Khanate of Mongolia">Bogd Khanate of Mongolia</a>, which is explained by the significant number of Buddhists within it.<sup id="cite_ref-173" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>'s ethnic <a href="/wiki/Kalmyk_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalmyk people">Kalmyk</a> units wore distinct armbands featuring a swastika with "РСФСР" (Roman: "RSFSR") inscriptions on them.<sup id="cite_ref-174" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Tannu_Tuva_(1921-1926)_alternate.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of Tuva&#160;– Tuvan People&#39;s Republic (1921–1926)"><img alt="Flag of Tuva&#160;– Tuvan People&#39;s Republic (1921–1926)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Tannu_Tuva_%281921-1926%29_alternate.svg/120px-Flag_of_Tannu_Tuva_%281921-1926%29_alternate.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="64" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Tannu_Tuva_%281921-1926%29_alternate.svg/180px-Flag_of_Tannu_Tuva_%281921-1926%29_alternate.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Tannu_Tuva_%281921-1926%29_alternate.svg/240px-Flag_of_Tannu_Tuva_%281921-1926%29_alternate.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="275" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Tuva" title="Flag of Tuva">Flag of Tuva</a>&#160;&#8211;&#32;<a href="/wiki/Tuvan_People%27s_Republic" title="Tuvan People&#39;s Republic">Tuvan People's Republic</a> (1921–1926)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="New_religious_movements">New religious movements</h4></div> <p>Besides its use as a religious symbol in <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jainism</a>, which can be traced back to pre-modern traditions, the swastika was also incorporated into a large number of <a href="/wiki/New_religious_movements" class="mw-redirect" title="New religious movements">new religious movements</a> which were established in the West in the modern period. </p><p>In the 1880s, the U.S.-origined <a href="/wiki/Theosophical_Society" title="Theosophical Society">Theosophical Society</a> adopted a swastika as part of its seal, along with an <a href="/wiki/Om" title="Om">Om</a>, a hexagram or <a href="/wiki/Star_of_David" title="Star of David">star of David</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Ankh" title="Ankh">Ankh</a>, and an <a href="/wiki/Ouroboros" title="Ouroboros">Ouroboros</a>. Unlike the much more recent <a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlian_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Raëlian movement">Raëlian movement</a>, the Theosophical Society symbol has been free from controversy, and the seal is still used. The current seal also includes the text "There is no religion higher than truth."<sup id="cite_ref-175" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism" title="Raëlism">Raëlian Movement</a>, whose adherents believe extraterrestrials created all life on earth, use a symbol that is often the source of considerable controversy: an interlaced <a href="/wiki/Star_of_David" title="Star of David">star of David</a> and a swastika. The Raëlians say the Star of David represents infinity in space whereas the swastika represents infinity in time&#160;&#8211;&#32;no beginning and no end in time, and everything being cyclic.<sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1991, the symbol was changed to remove the swastika, out of respect to the victims of <a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">the Holocaust</a>, but as of 2007 it has been restored to its original form.<sup id="cite_ref-177" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The swastika is a holy symbol in <a href="/wiki/Neopaganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Neopaganism">neopagan</a> <a href="/wiki/Heathenry_(new_religious_movement)" title="Heathenry (new religious movement)">Germanic Heathenry</a>, along with the <a href="/wiki/Mj%C3%B6lnir" title="Mjölnir">hammer of Thor</a> and <a href="/wiki/Runes" class="mw-redirect" title="Runes">runes</a>. This tradition&#160;&#8211;&#32;which is found in Scandinavia, Germany, and elsewhere&#160;&#8211;&#32;considers the swastika to be derived from a Norse symbol for the sun. Their use of the symbol has led people to accuse them of being a neo-Nazi group.<sup id="cite_ref-178" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-179" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMees2008141,_193–194,_210–211,_226–227_180-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMees2008141,_193–194,_210–211,_226–227-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Emb_logo.png" class="mw-file-description" title="The seal of the Theosophical society"><img alt="The seal of the Theosophical society" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Emb_logo.png/106px-Emb_logo.png" decoding="async" width="106" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Emb_logo.png/159px-Emb_logo.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Emb_logo.png/212px-Emb_logo.png 2x" data-file-width="850" data-file-height="960" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The seal of the Theosophical society</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Raelian_symbol.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Raëlian symbol with the swastika"><img alt="The Raëlian symbol with the swastika" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Raelian_symbol.svg/108px-Raelian_symbol.svg.png" decoding="async" width="108" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Raelian_symbol.svg/162px-Raelian_symbol.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Raelian_symbol.svg/216px-Raelian_symbol.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="213" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Raëlian symbol with the swastika</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Raelian_symbol_alternate.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The alternative Raëlian with the spiral"><img alt="The alternative Raëlian with the spiral" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Raelian_symbol_alternate.svg/108px-Raelian_symbol_alternate.svg.png" decoding="async" width="108" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Raelian_symbol_alternate.svg/162px-Raelian_symbol_alternate.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Raelian_symbol_alternate.svg/216px-Raelian_symbol_alternate.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="213" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The alternative Raëlian with the spiral</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Use_in_Nazism">Use in Nazism</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Fascist_symbolism" title="Fascist symbolism">Fascist symbolism</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nazi_symbolism" title="Nazi symbolism">Nazi symbolism</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Occultism_in_Nazism" title="Occultism in Nazism">Occultism in Nazism</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:292px;max-width:292px"><div class="trow"><div class="theader">Nazi Party Emblems</div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:81px;max-width:81px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:79px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:NSDAP-Logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/NSDAP-Logo.svg/79px-NSDAP-Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="79" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/NSDAP-Logo.svg/119px-NSDAP-Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/NSDAP-Logo.svg/158px-NSDAP-Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center">Party badge</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:124px;max-width:124px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:79px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Parteiadler_Nationalsozialistische_Deutsche_Arbeiterpartei_(1933%E2%80%931945).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Parteiadler_Nationalsozialistische_Deutsche_Arbeiterpartei_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg/122px-Parteiadler_Nationalsozialistische_Deutsche_Arbeiterpartei_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="122" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Parteiadler_Nationalsozialistische_Deutsche_Arbeiterpartei_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg/183px-Parteiadler_Nationalsozialistische_Deutsche_Arbeiterpartei_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Parteiadler_Nationalsozialistische_Deutsche_Arbeiterpartei_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg/244px-Parteiadler_Nationalsozialistische_Deutsche_Arbeiterpartei_%281933%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1297" data-file-height="846" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Parteiadler" class="mw-redirect" title="Parteiadler">Parteiadler</a> ("Party eagle")</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:81px;max-width:81px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:79px;overflow:hidden"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Golden_Nazi_Party_Badge.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Golden_Nazi_Party_Badge.svg/79px-Golden_Nazi_Party_Badge.svg.png" decoding="async" width="79" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Golden_Nazi_Party_Badge.svg/119px-Golden_Nazi_Party_Badge.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Golden_Nazi_Party_Badge.svg/158px-Golden_Nazi_Party_Badge.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1185" data-file-height="1193" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption text-align-center"><a href="/wiki/Golden_Party_Badge" title="Golden Party Badge">Golden Party Badge</a></div></div></div></div></div> <p>The swastika was widely used in Europe at the start of the 20th century. It symbolised many things to the Europeans, with the most common symbolism being of good luck and auspiciousness.<sup id="cite_ref-holocaust2009_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holocaust2009-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In the wake of <a href="/wiki/Western_use_of_the_Swastika_in_the_early_20th_century" class="mw-redirect" title="Western use of the Swastika in the early 20th century">widespread popular usage</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Weimar_Republic" title="Weimar Republic">post-World War I Germany</a>, the newly established <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> formally adopted the swastika in 1920.<sup id="cite_ref-holocaust2009_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holocaust2009-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-181" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Nazi Party emblem was a black swastika rotated 45 degrees on a white circle on a red background. This insignia was used on the party's flag, badge, and armband. <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a> also designed his personal standard using a black swastika sitting flat on one arm, not rotated.<sup id="cite_ref-182" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before the Nazis, the swastika was already in use as a symbol of German <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">völkisch</i></span> nationalist movements (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement" title="Völkisch movement">Völkische Bewegung</a></i></span>). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_Order_of_New_Templars.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_the_Order_of_New_Templars.svg/220px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_New_Templars.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_the_Order_of_New_Templars.svg/330px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_New_Templars.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_the_Order_of_New_Templars.svg/440px-Flag_of_the_Order_of_New_Templars.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_New_Templars" title="Order of the New Templars">Order of the New Templars</a> designed 1907 with a swastika used as <a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement" title="Völkisch movement"><i>völkisch</i></a> (German ethno-nationalist) symbol</figcaption></figure> <p>José Manuel Erbez says: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The first time the swastika was used with an "Aryan" meaning was on 25 December 1907, when the self-named <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_New_Templars" title="Order of the New Templars">Order of the New Templars</a>, a secret society founded by <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Lanz_von_Liebenfels" title="Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels">Lanz von Liebenfels</a>, hoisted at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Werfenstein_Castle&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Werfenstein Castle (page does not exist)">Werfenstein Castle</a> (Austria) a yellow flag with a swastika and four <a href="/wiki/Fleur-de-lys" class="mw-redirect" title="Fleur-de-lys">fleurs-de-lys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>However, Liebenfels was drawing on an already-established use of the symbol.<sup id="cite_ref-Goodrick-Clarke1997/2006_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goodrick-Clarke1997/2006-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:248px;max-width:248px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:122px;max-width:122px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_NSDAP_(1920%E2%80%931945).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_NSDAP_%281920%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The flag of the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> (National Socialist German Workers' Party, NSDAP)</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:122px;max-width:122px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Germany_(1935%E2%80%931945).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_Germany_%281935%E2%80%931945%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">The national flag of <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Germany</a> (1935–1945), which differs from the NSDAP flag in that the white circle with the swastika is off-center</div></div></div></div></div> <p>In his 1925 work <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Mein_Kampf" title="Mein Kampf">Mein Kampf</a></i></span>, Adolf Hitler writes: "I myself, meanwhile, after innumerable attempts, had laid down a final form; a flag with a red background, a white disk, and a black hooked cross in the middle. After long trials I also found a definite proportion between the size of the flag and the size of the white disk, as well as the shape and thickness of the hooked cross." </p><p>When Hitler created a flag for the Nazi Party, he sought to incorporate both the swastika and "those revered colours expressive of our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honour to the German nation". (Red, white, and black were the colours of the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_German_Empire" title="Flag of the German Empire">flag of the old German Empire</a>.) He also stated: "As National Socialists, we see our program in our flag. In red, we see the social idea of the movement; in white, the nationalistic idea; in the hooked cross, the mission of the struggle for the victory of the <a href="/wiki/Aryan_race" title="Aryan race">Aryan</a> man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work."<sup id="cite_ref-185" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The swastika was also understood as "the symbol of the creating, effecting life" (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">das Symbol des schaffenden, wirkenden Lebens</i></span>) and as "race emblem of Germanism" (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Rasseabzeichen des Germanentums</i></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-186" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The concepts of <a href="/wiki/Racial_hygiene" title="Racial hygiene">racial hygiene</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scientific_racism" title="Scientific racism">scientific racism</a> were central to Nazism.<sup id="cite_ref-187" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-188" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> High-ranking Nazi theorist <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Rosenberg" title="Alfred Rosenberg">Alfred Rosenberg</a> noted that the <a href="/wiki/Indo-Aryan_peoples" title="Indo-Aryan peoples">Indo-Aryan peoples</a> were both a model to be imitated and a warning of the dangers of the spiritual and racial "confusion" that, he believed, arose from the proximity of races. The Nazis co-opted the swastika as a symbol of the Aryan master race. </p><p>On 14 March 1933, shortly after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany, the NSDAP flag was hoisted alongside Germany's national colours. As part of the <a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws" title="Nuremberg Laws">Nuremberg Laws</a>, the NSDAP flag&#160;&#8211;&#32;with the swastika slightly offset from centre&#160;&#8211;&#32;was adopted as the sole national flag of Germany on 15 September 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-189" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Treu_Deutsch_Nr._11_12_10._September_1918_Nachrichten_des_Deutschen_Volksrates_Einheit_v%C3%B6lkischer_Verb%C3%A4nde_Herausgegeben_von_Dr._Heinrich_Pudor._Hakenkreuz_early_swastika_Stadtgeschichtliches_Museum_Leipzig_(City_Museum)_2015_adjusted.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Heinrich Pudor&#39;s völkisch Treu Deutsch (&#39;True German&#39;) 1918 with a swastika. From the collections of Leipzig City Museum."><img alt="Heinrich Pudor&#39;s völkisch Treu Deutsch (&#39;True German&#39;) 1918 with a swastika. From the collections of Leipzig City Museum." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Treu_Deutsch_Nr._11_12_10._September_1918_Nachrichten_des_Deutschen_Volksrates_Einheit_v%C3%B6lkischer_Verb%C3%A4nde_Herausgegeben_von_Dr._Heinrich_Pudor._Hakenkreuz_early_swastika_Stadtgeschichtliches_Museum_Leipzig_%28City_Museum%29_2015_adjusted.jpg/120px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Treu_Deutsch_Nr._11_12_10._September_1918_Nachrichten_des_Deutschen_Volksrates_Einheit_v%C3%B6lkischer_Verb%C3%A4nde_Herausgegeben_von_Dr._Heinrich_Pudor._Hakenkreuz_early_swastika_Stadtgeschichtliches_Museum_Leipzig_%28City_Museum%29_2015_adjusted.jpg/180px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Treu_Deutsch_Nr._11_12_10._September_1918_Nachrichten_des_Deutschen_Volksrates_Einheit_v%C3%B6lkischer_Verb%C3%A4nde_Herausgegeben_von_Dr._Heinrich_Pudor._Hakenkreuz_early_swastika_Stadtgeschichtliches_Museum_Leipzig_%28City_Museum%29_2015_adjusted.jpg/240px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="570" data-file-height="389" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Pudor" title="Heinrich Pudor">Heinrich Pudor</a>'s <i>völkisch</i> <i>Treu Deutsch</i> ('True German') 1918 with a swastika. From the collections of Leipzig City Museum.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pre-Nazi_Swastika._Stahlhelm_M_1916_mit_Hakenkreuzbemalung._Marinebrigade_Ehrhardt._L%C3%BCttwitz-Kapp-Putsch_1920._Deutsches_Historisches_Museum.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="German World War I helmet with swastika used by a member of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, a right-wing paramilitary free corps, participating in the Kapp Putsch 1920"><img alt="German World War I helmet with swastika used by a member of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, a right-wing paramilitary free corps, participating in the Kapp Putsch 1920" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Pre-Nazi_Swastika._Stahlhelm_M_1916_mit_Hakenkreuzbemalung._Marinebrigade_Ehrhardt._L%C3%BCttwitz-Kapp-Putsch_1920._Deutsches_Historisches_Museum.jpg/80px-Pre-Nazi_Swastika._Stahlhelm_M_1916_mit_Hakenkreuzbemalung._Marinebrigade_Ehrhardt._L%C3%BCttwitz-Kapp-Putsch_1920._Deutsches_Historisches_Museum.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Pre-Nazi_Swastika._Stahlhelm_M_1916_mit_Hakenkreuzbemalung._Marinebrigade_Ehrhardt._L%C3%BCttwitz-Kapp-Putsch_1920._Deutsches_Historisches_Museum.jpg/120px-Pre-Nazi_Swastika._Stahlhelm_M_1916_mit_Hakenkreuzbemalung._Marinebrigade_Ehrhardt._L%C3%BCttwitz-Kapp-Putsch_1920._Deutsches_Historisches_Museum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Pre-Nazi_Swastika._Stahlhelm_M_1916_mit_Hakenkreuzbemalung._Marinebrigade_Ehrhardt._L%C3%BCttwitz-Kapp-Putsch_1920._Deutsches_Historisches_Museum.jpg/160px-Pre-Nazi_Swastika._Stahlhelm_M_1916_mit_Hakenkreuzbemalung._Marinebrigade_Ehrhardt._L%C3%BCttwitz-Kapp-Putsch_1920._Deutsches_Historisches_Museum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1914" data-file-height="2871" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">German World War I helmet with swastika used by a member of the <a href="/wiki/Marinebrigade_Ehrhardt" title="Marinebrigade Ehrhardt">Marinebrigade Ehrhardt</a>, a right-wing paramilitary free corps, participating in the <a href="/wiki/Kapp_Putsch" title="Kapp Putsch">Kapp Putsch</a> 1920</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Standarte_Adolf_Hitlers.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Personal standard of Adolf Hitler (a war flag or Standarte in German) used from 1934 to 1945"><img alt="Personal standard of Adolf Hitler (a war flag or Standarte in German) used from 1934 to 1945" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Standarte_Adolf_Hitlers.svg/120px-Standarte_Adolf_Hitlers.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Standarte_Adolf_Hitlers.svg/180px-Standarte_Adolf_Hitlers.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Standarte_Adolf_Hitlers.svg/240px-Standarte_Adolf_Hitlers.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="670" data-file-height="670" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Personal_standard_of_Adolf_Hitler" title="Personal standard of Adolf Hitler">Personal standard of Adolf Hitler</a> (a <a href="/wiki/War_flag" title="War flag">war flag</a> or <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Standarte</i></span> in German) used from 1934 to 1945</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Deutsches_Reich_Mother%27s_Cross_of_Honour.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Cross of Honour of the German Mother (1939–1945) given to German mothers of four or more children"><img alt="Cross of Honour of the German Mother (1939–1945) given to German mothers of four or more children" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Deutsches_Reich_Mother%27s_Cross_of_Honour.jpg/83px-Deutsches_Reich_Mother%27s_Cross_of_Honour.jpg" decoding="async" width="83" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Deutsches_Reich_Mother%27s_Cross_of_Honour.jpg/124px-Deutsches_Reich_Mother%27s_Cross_of_Honour.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Deutsches_Reich_Mother%27s_Cross_of_Honour.jpg/165px-Deutsches_Reich_Mother%27s_Cross_of_Honour.jpg 2x" data-file-width="217" data-file-height="315" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Cross_of_Honour_of_the_German_Mother" title="Cross of Honour of the German Mother">Cross of Honour of the German Mother</a> (1939–1945) given to German mothers of four or more children</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Use_by_the_Allies">Use by the Allies</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flight_Lieutenant_Dennis_Barnham_of_No._601_Squadron_RAF_in_the_cockpit_of_his_Supermarine_Spitfire_Mk_VB_at_Luqa,_Malta,_with_Pilot_Officer_M_H_Le_Bas,_June_1942._GM1001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flight_Lieutenant_Dennis_Barnham_of_No._601_Squadron_RAF_in_the_cockpit_of_his_Supermarine_Spitfire_Mk_VB_at_Luqa%2C_Malta%2C_with_Pilot_Officer_M_H_Le_Bas%2C_June_1942._GM1001.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flight_Lieutenant_Dennis_Barnham_of_No._601_Squadron_RAF_in_the_cockpit_of_his_Supermarine_Spitfire_Mk_VB_at_Luqa%2C_Malta%2C_with_Pilot_Officer_M_H_Le_Bas%2C_June_1942._GM1001.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flight_Lieutenant_Dennis_Barnham_of_No._601_Squadron_RAF_in_the_cockpit_of_his_Supermarine_Spitfire_Mk_VB_at_Luqa%2C_Malta%2C_with_Pilot_Officer_M_H_Le_Bas%2C_June_1942._GM1001.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1648" data-file-height="1360" /></a><figcaption>Swastikas marking downed <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Luftwaffe" title="Luftwaffe">Luftwaffe</a></i></span> aircraft on the fuselage of a <a href="/wiki/Supermarine_Spitfire" title="Supermarine Spitfire">Supermarine Spitfire</a> of <a href="/wiki/No._601_Squadron_RAF" title="No. 601 Squadron RAF">No. 601 Squadron RAF</a>. A <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la"><a href="/wiki/Fasces" title="Fasces">fasces</a></i></span> indicates a <span title="Italian-language text"><i lang="it"><a href="/wiki/Regia_Aeronautica" title="Regia Aeronautica">Regia Aeronautica</a></i></span> aircraft.</figcaption></figure><p>During World War II it was common to use small swastikas to mark air-to-air victories on the sides of Allied aircraft, and at least one British fighter pilot inscribed a swastika in his logbook for each German plane he shot down.<sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Americas">Americas</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg/220px-Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg/330px-Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg/440px-Chromesun_4_uktenas_design.jpg 2x" data-file-width="444" data-file-height="405" /></a><figcaption>A digital illustration of <a href="/wiki/Horned_Serpent" title="Horned Serpent">Horned Serpent</a> by the artist Herb Roe. Based on an engraved shell cup in the <i>Craig B style</i> (designated <i>Engraved shell cup number 229</i><sup id="cite_ref-191" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>) from <a href="/wiki/Spiro_Mounds" title="Spiro Mounds">Spiro</a>, Oklahoma.</figcaption></figure> <p>The swastika has been used in the art and iconography of multiple indigenous peoples of North America, including the Hopi, Navajo, and Tlingit.<sup id="cite_ref-192" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Swastikas were founds on pottery from the Mississippi valley and on copper objects in the <a href="/wiki/Hopewell_Culture_National_Historical_Park" title="Hopewell Culture National Historical Park">Hopewell Mounds</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ross_County,_Ohio" title="Ross County, Ohio">Ross County, Ohio</a>, and on objects associated with the <a href="/wiki/Southeastern_Ceremonial_Complex#Motifs" title="Southeastern Ceremonial Complex">Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (S.E.C.C.)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-193" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-194" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> To the <a href="/wiki/Hopi" title="Hopi">Hopi</a> it represents the wandering Hopi clan.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> The <a href="/wiki/Navajo" title="Navajo">Navajo</a> symbol, called <i>tsin náálwołí</i> ("whirling log"), represents humanity and life, and is used in healing rituals.<sup id="cite_ref-Sanchez-2018_195-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanchez-2018-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-196" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A brightly coloured <a href="/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada" title="First Nations in Canada">First Nations</a> saddle featuring swastika designs is on display at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Saskatchewan_Museum" title="Royal Saskatchewan Museum">Royal Saskatchewan Museum</a> in Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-197" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Before the 1930s, the symbol for the <a href="/wiki/45th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" title="45th Infantry Division (United States)">45th Infantry Division of the United States Army</a> was a red diamond with a yellow swastika, a tribute to the large Native American population in the southwestern United States. It was later replaced with a <a href="/wiki/Thunderbird_(mythology)" title="Thunderbird (mythology)">thunderbird</a> symbol. </p><p>In the 20th century, traders encouraged Native American artists to use the symbol in their crafts, and it was used by the US Army 45th Infantry Division, an all-Native American division.<sup id="cite_ref-198" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-199" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ayres-2021_200-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ayres-2021-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The symbol lost popularity in the 1930s due to its associations with Nazi Germany. In 1940, partially due to government encouragement, community leaders from several different Native American tribes made a statement promising to no longer use the symbol.<sup id="cite_ref-201" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sanchez-2018_195-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sanchez-2018-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kane-2017_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kane-2017-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ayres-2021_200-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ayres-2021-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, the symbol has continued to be used by Native American groups, both in reference to the original symbol and as a memorial to the 45th Division, despite external objections to its use.<sup id="cite_ref-Olson_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Olson-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ayres-2021_200-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ayres-2021-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kane-2017_202-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kane-2017-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-203" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-204" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-205" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The symbol was used on state road signs in <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a> from the 1920s until the 1940s.<sup id="cite_ref-206" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town of <a href="/wiki/Swastika,_Ontario" title="Swastika, Ontario">Swastika, Ontario, Canada</a>, and the hamlet of <a href="/wiki/Swastika,_New_York" title="Swastika, New York">Swastika, New York</a> were named after the symbol. </p><p>From 1909 to 1916, the <a href="/wiki/K-R-I-T_Motor_Car_Company" title="K-R-I-T Motor Car Company">K-R-I-T automobile</a>, manufactured in Detroit, Michigan, used a right-facing swastika as their trademark. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Kuna_Yala.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Kuna_Yala.svg/220px-Flag_of_Kuna_Yala.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Kuna_Yala.svg/330px-Flag_of_Kuna_Yala.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Flag_of_Kuna_Yala.svg/440px-Flag_of_Kuna_Yala.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the Guna Yala people (since 1925) bears their ancient symbol <i>Naa Ukuryaa</i></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Guna_people#Flag" title="Guna people">flag of the Guna people</a> (also "Kuna Yala" or "Guna Yala") of Panama. This flag, adopted in 1925, has a swastika symbol that they call <i>Naa Ukuryaa</i>. According to one explanation, this ancestral symbol symbolises the octopus that created the world, its tentacles pointing to the four cardinal points.<sup id="cite_ref-207" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1942, a ring was added to the centre of the flag to differentiate it from the symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Party" title="Nazi Party">Nazi Party</a> (this version subsequently fell into disuse).<sup id="cite_ref-Panama_-_Native_Peoples_208-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Panama_-_Native_Peoples-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerycaption">The swastika in North America</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 222px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 217px; height: 217px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:William_Neptune,_Passamaquoddy_chief,_1920.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chief William Neptune of the Passamaquoddy, wearing a headdress and outfit adorned with swastikas"><img alt="Chief William Neptune of the Passamaquoddy, wearing a headdress and outfit adorned with swastikas" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/William_Neptune%2C_Passamaquoddy_chief%2C_1920.jpg/140px-William_Neptune%2C_Passamaquoddy_chief%2C_1920.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/William_Neptune%2C_Passamaquoddy_chief%2C_1920.jpg/211px-William_Neptune%2C_Passamaquoddy_chief%2C_1920.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/William_Neptune%2C_Passamaquoddy_chief%2C_1920.jpg/280px-William_Neptune%2C_Passamaquoddy_chief%2C_1920.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Chief William Neptune of the <a href="/wiki/Passamaquoddy" title="Passamaquoddy">Passamaquoddy</a>, wearing a headdress and outfit adorned with swastikas</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 222px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 217px; height: 217px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Native_American_basketball_team_crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Chilocco Indian Agricultural School basketball team in 1909"><img alt="Chilocco Indian Agricultural School basketball team in 1909" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Native_American_basketball_team_crop.jpg/166px-Native_American_basketball_team_crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="166" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Native_American_basketball_team_crop.jpg/250px-Native_American_basketball_team_crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Native_American_basketball_team_crop.jpg/332px-Native_American_basketball_team_crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="440" data-file-height="495" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Chilocco_Indian_Agricultural_School" title="Chilocco Indian Agricultural School">Chilocco Indian Agricultural School</a> basketball team in 1909</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 222px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 217px; height: 217px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fernie_Swastikas_hockey_team_1922.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fernie Swastikas hockey team in 1922"><img alt="Fernie Swastikas hockey team in 1922" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Fernie_Swastikas_hockey_team_1922.jpg/187px-Fernie_Swastikas_hockey_team_1922.jpg" decoding="async" width="187" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Fernie_Swastikas_hockey_team_1922.jpg/281px-Fernie_Swastikas_hockey_team_1922.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Fernie_Swastikas_hockey_team_1922.jpg/374px-Fernie_Swastikas_hockey_team_1922.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1403" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Fernie_Swastikas" title="Fernie Swastikas">Fernie Swastikas</a> hockey team in 1922</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 222px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 217px; height: 217px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Patch_of_the_45th_Infantry_Division_(1924-1939).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Original insignia of the 45th Infantry Division"><img alt="Original insignia of the 45th Infantry Division" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Patch_of_the_45th_Infantry_Division_%281924-1939%29.svg/187px-Patch_of_the_45th_Infantry_Division_%281924-1939%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="187" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Patch_of_the_45th_Infantry_Division_%281924-1939%29.svg/281px-Patch_of_the_45th_Infantry_Division_%281924-1939%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Patch_of_the_45th_Infantry_Division_%281924-1939%29.svg/374px-Patch_of_the_45th_Infantry_Division_%281924-1939%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="579" data-file-height="579" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Original insignia of the <a href="/wiki/45th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" title="45th Infantry Division (United States)">45th Infantry Division</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 222px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 217px; height: 217px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Girls_Club_of_Ladies_Home_Journal_1912_pillow_cover_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pillow cover offered by the Girls&#39; Club in The Ladies Home Journal in 1912"><img alt="Pillow cover offered by the Girls&#39; Club in The Ladies Home Journal in 1912" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Girls_Club_of_Ladies_Home_Journal_1912_pillow_cover_%28cropped%29.jpg/187px-The_Girls_Club_of_Ladies_Home_Journal_1912_pillow_cover_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="187" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Girls_Club_of_Ladies_Home_Journal_1912_pillow_cover_%28cropped%29.jpg/281px-The_Girls_Club_of_Ladies_Home_Journal_1912_pillow_cover_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Girls_Club_of_Ladies_Home_Journal_1912_pillow_cover_%28cropped%29.jpg/374px-The_Girls_Club_of_Ladies_Home_Journal_1912_pillow_cover_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="444" data-file-height="444" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Pillow cover offered by the Girls' Club in <i>The Ladies Home Journal</i> in 1912</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 222px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 217px; height: 217px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Arizona_2_1927.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Arizona state highway marker (1927)"><img alt="Arizona state highway marker (1927)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Arizona_2_1927.jpg/155px-Arizona_2_1927.jpg" decoding="async" width="155" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Arizona_2_1927.jpg/233px-Arizona_2_1927.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Arizona_2_1927.jpg/311px-Arizona_2_1927.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1204" data-file-height="1449" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Arizona state highway marker (1927)</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Africa">Africa</h3></div> <p>Swastikas can be seen in various African cultures. In Ethiopia a swastika is carved in the window of the famous 12th-century <a href="/wiki/Biete_Maryam" title="Biete Maryam">Biete Maryam</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/Rock-Hewn_Churches,_Lalibela" title="Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela">Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Roden_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roden-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In Ghana, the <a href="/wiki/Adinkra_symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="Adinkra symbol">adinkra symbol</a> <i>nkontim</i>, used by the <a href="/wiki/Akan_people" title="Akan people">Akan people</a> to represent loyalty, takes the form of a swastika. <i>Nkontim</i> symbols could be found on <a href="/wiki/Akan_goldweights" title="Akan goldweights">Ashanti gold weights</a> and clothing.<sup id="cite_ref-209" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Skastika_symbol_in_the_window_of_Lalibela_Rock_hewn_churches.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Carved fretwork forming a swastika on the Biete Maryam in Ethiopia"><img alt="Carved fretwork forming a swastika on the Biete Maryam in Ethiopia" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Skastika_symbol_in_the_window_of_Lalibela_Rock_hewn_churches.jpg/120px-Skastika_symbol_in_the_window_of_Lalibela_Rock_hewn_churches.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Skastika_symbol_in_the_window_of_Lalibela_Rock_hewn_churches.jpg/180px-Skastika_symbol_in_the_window_of_Lalibela_Rock_hewn_churches.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Skastika_symbol_in_the_window_of_Lalibela_Rock_hewn_churches.jpg/240px-Skastika_symbol_in_the_window_of_Lalibela_Rock_hewn_churches.jpg 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="395" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Carved fretwork forming a swastika on the <a href="/wiki/Biete_Maryam" title="Biete Maryam">Biete Maryam</a> in Ethiopia</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ghana-nkontim.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Nkontim adinkra symbol from Ghana, representing loyalty and readiness to serve"><img alt="Nkontim adinkra symbol from Ghana, representing loyalty and readiness to serve" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Ghana-nkontim.svg/120px-Ghana-nkontim.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Ghana-nkontim.svg/180px-Ghana-nkontim.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Ghana-nkontim.svg/240px-Ghana-nkontim.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><i>Nkontim</i> <a href="/wiki/Adinkra_symbols" title="Adinkra symbols">adinkra symbol</a> from Ghana, representing loyalty and readiness to serve</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_74.218.25_Weight.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ashanti weight in Africa"><img alt="Ashanti weight in Africa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Brooklyn_Museum_74.218.25_Weight.jpg/120px-Brooklyn_Museum_74.218.25_Weight.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Brooklyn_Museum_74.218.25_Weight.jpg/180px-Brooklyn_Museum_74.218.25_Weight.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Brooklyn_Museum_74.218.25_Weight.jpg/240px-Brooklyn_Museum_74.218.25_Weight.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1376" data-file-height="897" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Ashanti_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Ashanti Empire">Ashanti</a> weight in Africa</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Modern_adoptions">Modern adoptions</h3></div> <p>A <i><a href="/wiki/Ugunskrusts" title="Ugunskrusts">ugunskrusts</a></i> ('fire cross') is used by the <a href="/wiki/Baltic_neopaganism" title="Baltic neopaganism">Baltic neopaganism</a> movements <a href="/wiki/Dievtur%C4%ABba" title="Dievturība">Dievturība</a> in Latvia and <a href="/wiki/Romuva_(religion)" title="Romuva (religion)">Romuva</a> in Lithuania.<sup id="cite_ref-210" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early 1990s, the former dissident and one of the founders of Russian neo-paganism <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Dobrovolsky" title="Alexey Dobrovolsky">Alexey Dobrovolsky</a> first gave the name "kolovrat" (Russian: <span lang="ru">коловрат</span>, literally 'spinning wheel') to a four-beam swastika, identical to the Nazi symbol, and later transferred this name to an eight-beam rectangular swastika.<sup id="cite_ref-211" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to the historian and religious scholar Roman Shizhensky, Dobrovolsky took the idea of the swastika from the work "The Chronicle of <a href="/wiki/Oera_Linda_Book" title="Oera Linda Book">Oera Linda</a>"<sup id="cite_ref-212" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> by the Nazi ideologist <a href="/wiki/Herman_Wirth" title="Herman Wirth">Herman Wirth</a>, the first head of the <a href="/wiki/Ahnenerbe" title="Ahnenerbe">Ahnenerbe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Shizhensky_2012_213-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shizhensky_2012-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Dobrovolsky introduced the eight-beam "kolovrat" as a symbol of "resurgent paganism."<sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He considered this version of the Kolovrat a pagan sign of the sun and, in 1996, declared it a symbol of the uncompromising "national liberation struggle" against the "<a href="/wiki/Zhyd" title="Zhyd">Zhyd</a> yoke".<sup id="cite_ref-215" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to Dobrovolsky, the meaning of the "kolovrat" completely coincides with the meaning of the Nazi swastika.<sup id="cite_ref-216" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <i>kolovrat</i> is the most commonly used religious symbol within neopagan <a href="/wiki/Slavic_Native_Faith" title="Slavic Native Faith">Slavic Native Faith</a> (a.k.a. Rodnovery).<sup id="cite_ref-217" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-218" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005, authorities in Tajikistan called for the widespread adoption of the swastika as a national <a href="/wiki/Symbol" title="Symbol">symbol</a>. President <a href="/wiki/Emomali_Rahmonov" class="mw-redirect" title="Emomali Rahmonov">Emomali Rahmonov</a> declared the swastika an <a href="/wiki/Aryan" title="Aryan">Aryan</a> symbol, and 2006 "the year of Aryan culture", which would be a time to "study and popularise Aryan contributions to the history of the world civilisation, raise a new generation (of Tajiks) with the spirit of national self-determination, and develop deeper ties with other ethnicities and cultures".<sup id="cite_ref-219" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fire_Cross_(Ugunskrusts).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Baltic fire-cross"><img alt="The Baltic fire-cross" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Fire_Cross_%28Ugunskrusts%29.svg/120px-Fire_Cross_%28Ugunskrusts%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Fire_Cross_%28Ugunskrusts%29.svg/180px-Fire_Cross_%28Ugunskrusts%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Fire_Cross_%28Ugunskrusts%29.svg/240px-Fire_Cross_%28Ugunskrusts%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="1280" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Baltic fire-cross</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kolovrat_(%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82)_Swastika_(%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0)_-_Rodnovery.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Polish: Słoneczko (&quot;little sun&quot;); kolovrat (&quot;spinning wheel&quot;)"><img alt="Polish: Słoneczko (&quot;little sun&quot;); kolovrat (&quot;spinning wheel&quot;)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Kolovrat_%28%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%29_Swastika_%28%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%29_-_Rodnovery.svg/120px-Kolovrat_%28%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%29_Swastika_%28%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%29_-_Rodnovery.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Kolovrat_%28%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%29_Swastika_%28%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%29_-_Rodnovery.svg/180px-Kolovrat_%28%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%29_Swastika_%28%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%29_-_Rodnovery.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Kolovrat_%28%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%29_Swastika_%28%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%29_-_Rodnovery.svg/240px-Kolovrat_%28%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82%29_Swastika_%28%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%29_-_Rodnovery.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Polish_language" title="Polish language">Polish</a>: <i lang="pl">Słoneczko</i> ("little sun"); <i>kolovrat</i> ("<a href="/wiki/Spinning_wheel" title="Spinning wheel">spinning wheel</a>")</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Kolovrat.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="A kolovrat flag, introduced by Alexey Dobrovolsky"><img alt="A kolovrat flag, introduced by Alexey Dobrovolsky" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Kolovrat.svg/120px-Kolovrat.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="85" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Kolovrat.svg/180px-Kolovrat.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Kolovrat.svg/240px-Kolovrat.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1052" data-file-height="744" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A kolovrat flag, introduced by <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Dobrovolsky" title="Alexey Dobrovolsky">Alexey Dobrovolsky</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_controversy">Modern controversy</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-_World_War_II_stigmatisation">Post- World War II stigmatisation</h3></div> <p>Because of its use by Nazi Germany, the swastika since the 1930s has been largely associated with Nazism. In the aftermath of World War II, it has been considered a symbol of hate in the West,<sup id="cite_ref-220" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and of white supremacy in many Western countries.<sup id="cite_ref-221" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result, all use of it, or its use as a Nazi or hate symbol, is prohibited in some countries, including Germany. In some countries, such as the United States (in the 2003 case <i><a href="/wiki/Virginia_v._Black" title="Virginia v. Black">Virginia v. Black</a></i>), the highest courts have ruled that the local governments can prohibit the use of swastika along with other symbols such as cross burning, if the intent of the use is to intimidate others.<sup id="cite_ref-wiener463_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wiener463-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Germany">Germany</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a" title="Strafgesetzbuch section 86a"><i>Strafgesetzbuch</i> section 86a</a></div> <p>The German and Austrian postwar <a href="/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch" title="Strafgesetzbuch">criminal code</a> makes the public showing of the swastika, the <a href="/wiki/Sig_rune" class="mw-redirect" title="Sig rune">sig rune</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Celtic_cross" title="Celtic cross">Celtic cross</a> (specifically <a href="/wiki/Celtic_cross#White_supremacist_symbolism" title="Celtic cross">the variations used by white power activists</a>), the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Wolfsangel" title="Wolfsangel">wolfsangel</a></i></span>, the <a href="/wiki/Odal_(rune)" class="mw-redirect" title="Odal (rune)">odal rune</a> and the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Totenkopf" title="Totenkopf">Totenkopf</a></i></span> skull illegal, except for certain enumerated exemptions. It is also censored from the reprints of 1930s railway timetables published by the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Reichsbahn" class="mw-redirect" title="Reichsbahn">Reichsbahn</a></i></span>. The swastikas on Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain temples are exempt, as religious symbols cannot be banned in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-222" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A controversy was stirred by the decision of several police departments to begin inquiries against anti-fascists.<sup id="cite_ref-223" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In late 2005 police raided the offices of the <a href="/wiki/Punk_rock" title="Punk rock">punk rock</a> label and mail order store "Nix Gut Records" and confiscated merchandise depicting crossed-out swastikas and fists smashing swastikas. In 2006 the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Stade" title="Stade">Stade</a></i></span> police department started an inquiry against anti-fascist youths using a placard depicting a person dumping a swastika into a trashcan. The placard was displayed in opposition to the campaign of right-wing nationalist parties for local elections.<sup id="cite_ref-224" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On Friday, 17 March 2006, a member of the <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Bundestag" title="Bundestag">Bundestag</a></i></span>, <a href="/wiki/Claudia_Roth" title="Claudia Roth">Claudia Roth</a> reported herself to the German police for displaying a crossed-out swastika in multiple demonstrations against <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazis" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Nazis">neo-Nazis</a>, and subsequently got the Bundestag to suspend her immunity from prosecution. She intended to show the absurdity of charging anti-fascists with using fascist symbols: "We don't need prosecution of non-violent young people engaging against right-wing extremism." On 15 March 2007, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Court_of_Justice_of_Germany" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Court of Justice of Germany">Federal Court of Justice of Germany</a> (<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Bundesgerichtshof</i></span>) held that the crossed-out symbols were "clearly directed against a revival of national-socialist endeavours", thereby settling the dispute for the future.<sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-226" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-227" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 9 August 2018, Germany lifted the ban on the usage of swastikas and other Nazi symbols in video games. "Through the change in the interpretation of the law, games that critically look at current affairs can for the first time be given a USK age rating," USK managing director Elisabeth Secker told CTV. "This has long been the case for films and with regards to the freedom of the arts, this is now rightly also the case with computer and videogames."<sup id="cite_ref-228" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Legislation_in_other_European_countries">Legislation in other European countries</h4></div> <ul><li>Until 2013 in Hungary, it was a criminal misdemeanour to publicly display "totalitarian symbols", including the swastika, the <a href="/wiki/SS" class="mw-redirect" title="SS">SS</a> insignia, and the <a href="/wiki/Arrow_Cross" title="Arrow Cross">Arrow Cross</a>, punishable by custodial arrest.<sup id="cite_ref-hu-const-court_230-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hu-const-court-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-231" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Display for academic, educational, artistic or journalistic reasons was allowed at the time. The <a href="/wiki/Communist_symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist symbol">communist symbols</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle" title="Hammer and sickle">hammer and sickle</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Red_star" title="Red star">red star</a> were also regarded as totalitarian symbols and had the same restriction by Hungarian criminal law until 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-hu-const-court_230-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hu-const-court-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>In Latvia, public display of Nazi and Soviet symbols, including the Nazi swastika, is prohibited in public events since 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-232" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-233" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, in a court case from 2007 a regional court in Riga held that the swastika can be used as an ethnographic symbol, in which case the ban does not apply.<sup id="cite_ref-234" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>In Lithuania, public display of Nazi and Soviet symbols, including the Nazi swastika, is an administrative offence, punishable by a fine from 150 to 300 <a href="/wiki/Euros" class="mw-redirect" title="Euros">euros</a>. According to judicial practice, display of a non-Nazi swastika is legal.<sup id="cite_ref-235" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>In Poland, public display of Nazi symbols, including the <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a> swastika, is a criminal offence punishable by up to eight years of imprisonment. The use of the swastika as a religious symbol is legal.<sup id="cite_ref-tele-che_236-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tele-che-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva">Geneva</a>, Switzerland, a new constitution article banning the use of hate symbols, emblems, and other hateful images was passed in June 2024, which included banning the use of the swastika.<sup id="cite_ref-237" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/European_Commission" title="European Commission">European Union's Executive Commission</a> proposed a European Union-wide anti-racism law in 2001, but European Union states failed to agree on the balance between prohibiting racism and freedom of expression.<sup id="cite_ref-EthanMcNern_238-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EthanMcNern-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An attempt to ban the swastika across the EU in early 2005 failed after objections from the British Government and others. In early 2007, while Germany held the European Union presidency, Berlin proposed that the European Union should follow German Criminal Law and criminalise the <a href="/wiki/Holocaust_denial" title="Holocaust denial">denial of the Holocaust</a> and the display of Nazi symbols including the swastika, which is based on the Ban on the Symbols of Unconstitutional Organisations Act. This led to an opposition campaign by Hindu groups across Europe against a ban on the swastika. They pointed out that the swastika has been around for 5,000 years as a symbol of peace.<sup id="cite_ref-239" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-240" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The proposal to ban the swastika was dropped by Berlin from the proposed <a href="/wiki/Fundamental_Rights_Agency" title="Fundamental Rights Agency">European Union wide anti-racism laws</a> on 29 January 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-EthanMcNern_238-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EthanMcNern-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Outside_Europe">Outside Europe</h4></div> <p>The manufacture, distribution or broadcasting of a swastika, with the intent to propagate Nazism, is a crime in Brazil as dictated by article 20, paragraph 1, of federal statute 7.716, passed in 1989. The penalty is a two to five years prison term and a fine.<sup id="cite_ref-241" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The public display of <a href="/wiki/Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi">Nazi</a>-era German flags (or any other flags) is protected by the <a href="/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution">First Amendment to the United States Constitution</a>, which guarantees the right to <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_speech" title="Freedom of speech">freedom of speech</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-242" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Nazi <i><a href="/wiki/Reichskriegsflagge" title="Reichskriegsflagge">Reichskriegsflagge</a></i> has also been seen on display at white supremacist events within United States borders, side by side with the <a href="/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America#Battle_flag" title="Flags of the Confederate States of America">Confederate battle flag</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-243" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2010, the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a> (ADL) downgraded the swastika from its status as a Jewish hate symbol, saying "We know that the swastika has, for some, lost its meaning as the primary symbol of Nazism and instead become a more generalised symbol of hate."<sup id="cite_ref-Dickter_244-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dickter-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The ADL notes on their website that the symbol is often used as "shock graffiti" by juveniles, rather than by individuals who hold white supremacist beliefs, but it is still a predominant symbol among American white supremacists (particularly as a tattoo design) and used with antisemitic intention.<sup id="cite_ref-ADL_245-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ADL-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, <a href="/wiki/Victoria_(Australia)" class="mw-redirect" title="Victoria (Australia)">Victoria</a> was the first Australian state to ban the display of the Nazi's swastika. People who intentionally break this law will face a one-year jail sentence, a fine of 120 penalty units ($23,077.20 AUD as of 2023, equivalent to £12,076.66 or US$15,385.57), or both.<sup id="cite_ref-246" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-247" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Media">Media</h4></div> <p>In 2010, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> officially spoke out against use of the swastika by players of the <a href="/wiki/First-person_shooter" title="First-person shooter">first-person shooter</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops" title="Call of Duty: Black Ops">Call of Duty: Black Ops</a></i>. In <i>Black Ops</i>, players are allowed to customise their name tags to represent whatever they want. The swastika can be created and used, but <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Toulouse" title="Stephen Toulouse">Stephen Toulouse</a>, director of <a href="/wiki/Xbox_Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Xbox Live">Xbox Live</a> policy and enforcement, said players with the symbol on their name tag will be banned (if someone reports it as inappropriate) from Xbox Live.<sup id="cite_ref-Goldman_2010_248-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goldman_2010-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Jones_Stunt_Spectacular" class="mw-redirect" title="Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular">Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Disney_Hollywood_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Disney Hollywood Studios">Disney Hollywood Studios</a> in Orlando, Florida, the swastikas on German trucks, aircraft and actor uniforms in the reenactment of a scene from <i><a href="/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark" title="Raiders of the Lost Ark">Raiders of the Lost Ark</a></i> were removed in 2004. The swastikas have been replaced by a stylised <a href="/wiki/Christian_cross_variants#Basic_forms" title="Christian cross variants">Greek cross</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Telotte_2008_p.201_249-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Telotte_2008_p.201-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Use_by_neo-Nazis">Use by neo-Nazis</h3></div> <p>As with many <a href="/wiki/Neo-Nazi" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Nazi">neo-Nazi</a> groups across the world, the <a href="/wiki/American_Nazi_Party" title="American Nazi Party">American Nazi Party</a> used the swastika as part of its flag before its first dissolution in 1967. The symbol was chosen by the organisation's founder, <a href="/wiki/George_Lincoln_Rockwell" title="George Lincoln Rockwell">George Lincoln Rockwell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-250" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was "re-used" by successor organisations in 1983, without the publicity Rockwell's organisation enjoyed.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p><p>The swastika, in various iconographic forms, is one of the hate symbols identified in use as <a href="/wiki/Graffiti" title="Graffiti">graffiti</a> in US schools, and is described as such in a 1999 US Department of Education document, "Responding to Hate at School: A Guide for Teachers, Counsellors and Administrators", edited by Jim Carnes, which provides advice to educators on how to support students targeted by such hate symbols and address hate graffiti. Examples given show that it is often used alongside other white supremacist symbols, such as those of the <a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>, and note a <a href="/wiki/Triskelion" title="Triskelion">"three-bladed" variation</a> used by <a href="/wiki/White_power_skinhead" title="White power skinhead">skinheads</a>, white supremacists, and "<a href="/wiki/Afrikaner_Weerstandsbeweging" title="Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging">some South African extremist groups</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-251" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The neo-Nazi <a href="/wiki/Russian_National_Unity" title="Russian National Unity">Russian National Unity</a> group's branch in Estonia is officially registered under the name "Kolovrat" and published an extremist newspaper in 2001 under the same name.<sup id="cite_ref-Lihachev_252-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lihachev-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A criminal investigation found the paper included an array of racial epithets. One Narva resident was sentenced to one year in jail for distribution of <i>Kolovrat</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The Kolovrat has since been used by the <a href="/wiki/Rusich_Group" title="Rusich Group">Rusich Battalion</a>, a Russian militant group known for its operation during the <a href="/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Donbas (2014–2022)">war in Donbas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-254" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-255" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2014 and 2015, members of the Ukrainian <a href="/wiki/Azov_Regiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Azov Regiment">Azov Regiment</a> were seen with swastika tattoos.<sup id="cite_ref-256" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-257" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-258" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_American_Nazi_Party_(1960s-2015).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of the American Nazi Party"><img alt="Flag of the American Nazi Party" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Flag_of_the_American_Nazi_Party_%281960s-2015%29.svg/120px-Flag_of_the_American_Nazi_Party_%281960s-2015%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="72" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Flag_of_the_American_Nazi_Party_%281960s-2015%29.svg/180px-Flag_of_the_American_Nazi_Party_%281960s-2015%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Flag_of_the_American_Nazi_Party_%281960s-2015%29.svg/240px-Flag_of_the_American_Nazi_Party_%281960s-2015%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="240" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Flag of the <a href="/wiki/American_Nazi_Party" title="American Nazi Party">American Nazi Party</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Blason_du_National_Socialist_Movement_usa.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo of the National Socialist Movement (U.S.)"><img alt="Logo of the National Socialist Movement (U.S.)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Blason_du_National_Socialist_Movement_usa.svg/110px-Blason_du_National_Socialist_Movement_usa.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Blason_du_National_Socialist_Movement_usa.svg/164px-Blason_du_National_Socialist_Movement_usa.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Blason_du_National_Socialist_Movement_usa.svg/219px-Blason_du_National_Socialist_Movement_usa.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="327" data-file-height="358" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo of the <a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Movement_(United_States)" title="National Socialist Movement (United States)">National Socialist Movement</a> (U.S.)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Russian_National_Unity_Emblem.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Logo of the Russian National Unity"><img alt="Logo of the Russian National Unity" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Russian_National_Unity_Emblem.svg/120px-Russian_National_Unity_Emblem.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Russian_National_Unity_Emblem.svg/180px-Russian_National_Unity_Emblem.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Russian_National_Unity_Emblem.svg/240px-Russian_National_Unity_Emblem.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="996" data-file-height="997" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Logo of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_National_Unity" title="Russian National Unity">Russian National Unity</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Western_misinterpretation_of_Asian_use">Western misinterpretation of Asian use</h3></div> <p>Since the end of the 20th century, and through the early 21st century, confusion and controversy has occurred when personal-use goods bearing the traditional Jain, Buddhist, or Hindu symbols have been exported to the West, notably to North America and Europe, and have been interpreted by purchasers as bearing a Nazi symbol. This has resulted in several such products having been boycotted or pulled from shelves. </p><p>When a ten-year-old boy in <a href="/wiki/Lynbrook,_New_York" title="Lynbrook, New York">Lynbrook, New York</a>, bought a set of <a href="/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trading_Card_Game" title="Pokémon Trading Card Game">Pokémon cards</a> imported from Japan in 1999, two of the cards contained the left-facing Buddhist swastika. The boy's parents misinterpreted the symbol as the right-facing Nazi swastika and filed a complaint to the manufacturer. <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="Nintendo of America">Nintendo of America</a> announced that the cards would be discontinued, explaining that what was acceptable in one culture was not necessarily so in another; their action was welcomed by the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a> who recognised that there was no intention to offend, but said that international commerce meant that "Isolating [the swastika] in Asia would just create more problems."<sup id="cite_ref-Heller_2008_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heller_2008-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002, <a href="/wiki/Christmas_cracker" title="Christmas cracker">Christmas crackers</a> containing plastic toy red pandas sporting swastikas were pulled from shelves after complaints from customers in Canada. The manufacturer, based in China, said the symbol was presented in a traditional sense and not as a reference to the Nazis, and apologised to the customers for the cross-cultural mix-up.<sup id="cite_ref-260" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, the retailer <a href="/wiki/Shein_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Shein (company)">Shein</a> pulled a necklace featuring a left-facing swastika pendant from its website after receiving backlash on social media. The retailer apologized for the lack of sensitivity but noted that the swastika was a Buddhist symbol.<sup id="cite_ref-261" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Swastika_as_distinct_from_Hakenkreuz_debate">Swastika as distinct from <i>Hakenkreuz</i> debate</h4></div> <p>Beginning in the early 2000s, partially as a reaction to the publication of a book titled <i>The Swastika: Symbol Beyond Redemption?</i> by <a href="/wiki/Steven_Heller_(design_writer)" title="Steven Heller (design writer)">Steven Heller</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Heller_2008_79-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Heller_2008-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> there has been a movement by <a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hindu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indigenous_peoples" title="Indigenous peoples">indigenous peoples</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jainism" title="Jainism">Jain</a> historians, <a href="/wiki/Anthropologist" title="Anthropologist">anthropologists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linguistics" title="Linguistics">linguists</a>, and other scholars to "reclaim" what was seen as "their" swastika symbol "...&#160;until Hitler stole it."<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_2014_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News_2014-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> These groups argue that the swastika is distinct from the Nazi symbol. A key part of this argument rests on the fact that Adolf Hitler, writing in German, referred to the symbol as a hooked cross (German: <i lang="de">Hakenkreuz</i>). </p><p>The main barrier to the effort to "reclaim", "restore", or "reassess" the swastika comes from the decades of extremely negative association in the Western world following the Nazi Party's adoption of it in the 1930s. As well, <a href="/wiki/White_supremacist" class="mw-redirect" title="White supremacist">white supremacist</a> groups still cling to the symbol as an icon of power and identity.<sup id="cite_ref-ADL_245-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ADL-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On 13 August 1920, speaking to his followers in the <a href="/wiki/Hofbr%C3%A4uhaus_am_Platzl" title="Hofbräuhaus am Platzl">Hofbräuhaus am Platzl</a> of Munich, Hitler said that the Nazi symbol was shared by various cultures around the world, and could be seen "as far as India and Japan, carved in the temple pillars."<sup id="cite_ref-262" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many media organizations in the West also continue to describe neo-Nazi usage of the symbol as a swastika, or sometimes with the "Nazi" adjective written as "Nazi Swastika".<sup id="cite_ref-USA_Today,_Marc_Ramirez,_August_28,_2022_263-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USA_Today,_Marc_Ramirez,_August_28,_2022-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-264" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Groups that oppose this media terminology do not wish to censor such usage, but rather to shift coverage of antisemitic and hateful events to describe the symbol in this context as a "<span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Hakenkreuz</i></span>" or "hooked cross".<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output 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title="Arevakhach">arevakhach</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Except for religious use.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-britswast-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-britswast_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-britswast_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-britswast_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-britswast_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-britswast_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-britswast_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a 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Motilal Banarsidass. pp.&#160;82–83. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-81-208-0781-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-81-208-0781-5"><bdi>978-81-208-0781-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Symbolism+of+the+Stupa&amp;rft.pages=82-83&amp;rft.pub=Motilal+Banarsidass&amp;rft.date=1992&amp;rft.isbn=978-81-208-0781-5&amp;rft.au=Adrian+Snodgrass&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnzqK8dDCM0UC%26pg%3DPA82&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cort_2001_17-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Cort_2001_17_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cort_2001_17_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCort2001" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_E._Cort" title="John E. Cort">Cort, John E.</a> (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PZk-4HOMzsoC"><i>Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. p.&#160;17. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0195132342" title="Special:BookSources/978-0195132342"><bdi>978-0195132342</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Jains+in+the+World%3A+Religious+Values+and+Ideology+in+India&amp;rft.pages=17&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=978-0195132342&amp;rft.aulast=Cort&amp;rft.aufirst=John+E.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPZk-4HOMzsoC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-p.97-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-p.97_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p.97_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-p.97_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBeer2003" class="citation book cs1">Beer, Robert (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-3804Ud9-4IC"><i>The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols</i></a>. Serindia Publications, Inc. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1932476033" title="Special:BookSources/978-1932476033"><bdi>978-1932476033</bdi></a> &#8211; via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Handbook+of+Tibetan+Buddhist+Symbols&amp;rft.pub=Serindia+Publications%2C+Inc.&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=978-1932476033&amp;rft.aulast=Beer&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-3804Ud9-4IC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This citation requires a reference to the specific page or range of pages in which the material appears. (November 2019)">page&#160;needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GRE-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GRE_9-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200205212950/https://bigenc.ru/ethnology/text/3539594">"Свастика"</a> &#91;Swastika&#93;. <i>Большая российская энциклопедия/<a href="/wiki/Great_Russian_Encyclopedia" title="Great Russian Encyclopedia">Great Russian Encyclopedia</a> Online</i> (in Russian). 2017. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bigenc.ru/ethnology/text/3539594">the original</a> on 5 February 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 May</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0&amp;rft.btitle=%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%8D%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F%2FGreat+Russian+Encyclopedia+Online&amp;rft.date=2017&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbigenc.ru%2Fethnology%2Ftext%2F3539594&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MigSym-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MigSym_11-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MigSym_11-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MigSym_11-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://sacred-texts.com/sym/mosy/index.htm">"The Migration of Symbols Index"</a>. <i>sacred-texts.com</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=sacred-texts.com&amp;rft.atitle=The+Migration+of+Symbols+Index&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsacred-texts.com%2Fsym%2Fmosy%2Findex.htm&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CambDict-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CambDict_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=PDHCFSRmjSMC"><i>Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary</i></a>. Cambridge University Press. 2008. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3125179882" title="Special:BookSources/978-3125179882"><bdi>978-3125179882</bdi></a> &#8211; via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Cambridge+Advanced+Learner%27s+Dictionary&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=978-3125179882&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPDHCFSRmjSMC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-etymology-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-etymology_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/swastika?s=t">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Swastika' Etymology"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary.com" title="Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 June</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=%27Swastika%27+Etymology&amp;rft.btitle=Dictionary.com&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdictionary.reference.com%2Fbrowse%2Fswastika%3Fs%3Dt&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-silverblatt109-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-silverblatt109_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-silverblatt109_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArt_SilverblattNikolai_Zlobin2015" class="citation book cs1">Art Silverblatt; Nikolai Zlobin (2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_mfxBwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA109"><i>International Communications: A Media Literacy Approach</i></a>. Routledge. p.&#160;109. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-317-46760-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-317-46760-1"><bdi>978-1-317-46760-1</bdi></a>. <q>Buddha's footprints were said to be swastikas.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=International+Communications%3A+A+Media+Literacy+Approach&amp;rft.pages=109&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-317-46760-1&amp;rft.au=Art+Silverblatt&amp;rft.au=Nikolai+Zlobin&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D_mfxBwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA109&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPantFuno2007" class="citation book cs1">Pant, Mohan; Funo, Shūji (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W-K5_Z8qsJEC"><i>Stupa and Swastika: Historical Urban Planning Principles in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley</i></a>. National University of Singapore Press. p.&#160;231 with note 5. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9971-69-372-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-9971-69-372-5"><bdi>978-9971-69-372-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Stupa+and+Swastika%3A+Historical+Urban+Planning+Principles+in+Nepal%27s+Kathmandu+Valley&amp;rft.pages=231+with+note+5&amp;rft.pub=National+University+of+Singapore+Press&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=978-9971-69-372-5&amp;rft.aulast=Pant&amp;rft.aufirst=Mohan&amp;rft.au=Funo%2C+Sh%C5%ABji&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DW-K5_Z8qsJEC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Greg-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Greg_16-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGreg1884" class="citation book cs1">Greg, Robert Philips (1884). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/onmeaningandori00londgoog"><i>On the Meaning and Origin of the Fylfot and Swastika</i></a>. Nichols and Sons. pp.&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/onmeaningandori00londgoog/page/n11">6</a>, 29.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=On+the+Meaning+and+Origin+of+the+Fylfot+and+Swastika&amp;rft.pages=6%2C+29&amp;rft.pub=Nichols+and+Sons&amp;rft.date=1884&amp;rft.aulast=Greg&amp;rft.aufirst=Robert+Philips&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fonmeaningandori00londgoog&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.harappa.com/indus4/45.html">"Faience button seal"</a>. <q>Faience button seal (H99-3814/8756-01) with swastika motif found on the floor of Room 202 (Trench 43).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Faience+button+seal&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.harappa.com%2Findus4%2F45.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/swastika">"Swastika"</a>. <i>Britanica</i>. <q>The swastika also appeared in early Christian and Byzantine art (where it became known as the gammadion cross, or crux gammata, because it could be constructed from four Greek gammas [ Γ ] attached to a common base).</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Swastika&amp;rft.btitle=Britanica&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Ftopic%2Fswastika&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/463250">"Textile with Interlacing Bands forming Swastika Figures (German, 14th–15th century)"</a>. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Textile+with+Interlacing+Bands+forming+Swastika+Figures+%28German%2C+14th%E2%80%9315th+century%29&amp;rft.pub=The+Metropolitan+Museum+of+Art&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metmuseum.org%2Fart%2Fcollection%2Fsearch%2F463250&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fTIlAQAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22as%20an%20emblem%22"><i>The National Jewish Monthly</i></a>. Vol.&#160;55–56. B'nai B'rith. 1940. p.&#160;181. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220728230502/https://books.google.ro/books?id=fTIlAQAAMAAJ&amp;dq=%22as%20an%20emblem%22">Archived</a> from the original on 28 July 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Holocaust+Encyclopedia&amp;rft.atitle=History+of+the+Swastika&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fencyclopedia.ushmm.org%2Fcontent%2Fen%2Farticle%2Fhistory-of-the-swastika&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-wiener463-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-wiener463_24-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-wiener463_24-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWienerRichter2008" class="citation journal cs1">Wiener, Richard L.; Richter, Erin (2008). "Symbolic hate: Intention to intimidate, political ideology, and group association". <i>Law and Human Behavior</i>. <b>32</b> (6). American Psychological Association: 463–476. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10979-007-9119-3">10.1007/s10979-007-9119-3</a>. <a href="/wiki/PMID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="PMID (identifier)">PMID</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18030607">18030607</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:25546323">25546323</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Law+and+Human+Behavior&amp;rft.atitle=Symbolic+hate%3A+Intention+to+intimidate%2C+political+ideology%2C+and+group+association.&amp;rft.volume=32&amp;rft.issue=6&amp;rft.pages=463-476&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.semanticscholar.org%2FCorpusID%3A25546323%23id-name%3DS2CID&amp;rft_id=info%3Apmid%2F18030607&amp;rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1007%2Fs10979-007-9119-3&amp;rft.aulast=Wiener&amp;rft.aufirst=Richard+L.&amp;rft.au=Richter%2C+Erin&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStollznow2020" class="citation book cs1">Stollznow, Karen (2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dsf3DwAAQBAJ&amp;dq=Swastika+%2522symbol+of+white+supremacy%2522&amp;pg=PA134"><i>On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present</i></a>. Cambridge University Press. p.&#160;134. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-108-49627-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-108-49627-8"><bdi>978-1-108-49627-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=On+the+Offensive%3A+Prejudice+in+Language+Past+and+Present&amp;rft.pages=134&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2020&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-108-49627-8&amp;rft.aulast=Stollznow&amp;rft.aufirst=Karen&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Ddsf3DwAAQBAJ%26dq%3DSwastika%2B%252522symbol%2Bof%2Bwhite%2Bsupremacy%252522%26pg%3DPA134&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLangmanLundskow2016" class="citation book cs1">Langman, Lauren; Lundskow, George (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dk4PDQAAQBAJ&amp;dq=Swastika+%2522symbol+of+white+supremacy%2522&amp;pg=PA89"><i>God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and its Discontents</i></a>. Brill. p.&#160;89. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-32863-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-32863-1"><bdi>978-90-04-32863-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=God%2C+Guns%2C+Gold+and+Glory%3A+American+Character+and+its+Discontents&amp;rft.pages=89&amp;rft.pub=Brill&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=978-90-04-32863-1&amp;rft.aulast=Langman&amp;rft.aufirst=Lauren&amp;rft.au=Lundskow%2C+George&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Ddk4PDQAAQBAJ%26dq%3DSwastika%2B%252522symbol%2Bof%2Bwhite%2Bsupremacy%252522%26pg%3DPA89&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLander2013" class="citation book cs1">Lander, Janis (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=IH5iAgAAQBAJ&amp;dq=swastika+%2522symbol+of+evil%2522&amp;pg=PA28"><i>Spiritual Art and Art Education</i></a>. Routledge. p.&#160;28. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-134-66789-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-134-66789-5"><bdi>978-1-134-66789-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Spiritual+Art+and+Art+Education&amp;rft.pages=28&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2013&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-134-66789-5&amp;rft.aulast=Lander&amp;rft.aufirst=Janis&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DIH5iAgAAQBAJ%26dq%3Dswastika%2B%252522symbol%2Bof%2Bevil%252522%26pg%3DPA28&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWagoner2009" class="citation book cs1">Wagoner, Brady (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HWeMAgAAQBAJ&amp;dq=swastika+%2522symbol+of+evil%2522&amp;pg=PA13"><i>Symbolic Transformation: The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society</i></a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 February</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=A+symbol+is+a+thought%2C+a+drawing%2C+an+action%2C+an+archetype%2C+etcetera+of+the+conceptualization+of+a+thing+that+exists+either+in+reality+or+in+the+imagination.&amp;rft.aulast=Druid&amp;rft.aufirst=Morning+Star+Athbhreith+Athbheochan+Kwisatz+Haderach&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unique-design.net%2Flibrary%2Fword%2Fsymbol.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Staff (ndg) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ancient-code.com/researchers-find-the-swastika-predates-indus-valley-civilization/">"Researchers find the Swastika predates the Indus Valley Civilization"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171016123605/https://www.ancient-code.com/researchers-find-the-swastika-predates-indus-valley-civilization/">Archived</a> 16 October 2017 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>Ancient Code</i>; citing :lead project investigator" Joy Sen from the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Kharagpur" class="mw-redirect" title="Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur">Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-84"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-84">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dunham, Dows "A Collection of 'Pot-Marks' from Kush and Nubia", Kush, 13, 131–147, 1965</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-GW-85"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-GW_85-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGuozhen2019" class="citation book cs1">Guozhen, Wang (1 December 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=sGDwDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA123"><i>Collection of Ancient Chinese Cultural Relics, Volume 1: Primitive Society (1.7 million – 4000 BC) and The Xia and Shang Dynasties (21st – 11th Century BC)</i></a>. 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V&amp;A Museum<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 September</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Textile+fragment&amp;rft.pub=V%26A+Museum&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fcollections.vam.ac.uk%2Fitem%2FO184378%2Ftextile-fragment-unknown%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">a term coined by Anna Roes, "Tierwirbel", IPEK, 1936–1937</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-88"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-88">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMarija_Gimbutas" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas" title="Marija Gimbutas">Marija Gimbutas</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120110165543/http://www.vaidilute.com/books/gimbutas/gimbutas-07.html">"The Balts before the Dawn of History"</a>. <i>Vaidilute.com</i>. 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II, p. 663</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-93"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-93">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">T. Wilson <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/theswastika00wilsuoft">The swastika, the earlist known symbol and its migrations</a>, pp. 807, 951</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-94"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-94">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoldingHolding2011" class="citation book cs1">Holding, Nicholas; Holding, Deirdre (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Epec69LGa0IC&amp;q=symbol+of+eternity+modern+armenia&amp;pg=PA148"><i>Armenia</i></a>. 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Noyes Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0815550525" title="Special:BookSources/978-0815550525"><bdi>978-0815550525</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 February</span> 2017</span> &#8211; via Google Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Illyrians%3A+history+and+culture&amp;rft.pub=Noyes+Press&amp;rft.date=1977&amp;rft.isbn=978-0815550525&amp;rft.aulast=Stip%C4%8Devi%C4%87&amp;rft.aufirst=Aleksandar&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DNLcWAQAAIAAJ%26q%3Dswastika&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-100"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-100">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jacob G. Ghazarian (2006), <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cKHYAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22Armenian+symbol+of+eternity%22">The Mediterranean legacy in early Celtic Christianity: a journey from Armenia to Ireland</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230105083219/https://books.google.com/books?id=cKHYAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22Armenian+symbol+of+eternity%22&amp;redir_esc=y">Archived</a> 5 January 2023 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>, Bennett &amp; Bloom, pp. 263, p. 171 "...<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>Quite a different version of the Celtic triskelion, and perhaps the most common pre-Christian symbolism found throughout Armenian cultural tradition, is the round clockwise (occasionally counter-clockwise) whirling sun-like spiral fixed at a centre&#160;&#8211;&#32;the Armenian symbol of eternity."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-101"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-101">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">K. B. Mehr, M. Markow, <i>Mormon Missionaries enter Eastern Europe</i>, Brigham Young University Press, 2002, pp. 399, p. 252 "...<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>She viewed a tall building with spires and circular windows along the top of the walls. It was engraved with sun stones, a typical symbol of eternity in ancient Armenian architecture."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-OLDTIDENS-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-OLDTIDENS_102-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Margrethe_II_of_Denmark" class="mw-redirect" title="Margrethe II of Denmark">Margrethe, Queen</a>, Poul Kjrum, Rikke Agnete Olsen (1990). <i>Oldtidens Ansigt: Faces of the Past</i>, p. 148. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-87-7468-274-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-87-7468-274-5">978-87-7468-274-5</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DAVIDSON83-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DAVIDSON83_103-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">H.R. Ellis Davidson (1965). <i>Gods and Myths of Northern Europe</i>, p. 83. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-14-013627-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-14-013627-2">978-0-14-013627-2</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-104">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070324011256/http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=compass">"The Battersea Shield"</a>. <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=compass&amp;_IXSR_=wt9&amp;_IXSS_=%2524%2bwith%2ball_unique_id_index%2bis%2b%2524%3dOBJ1172%26_IXNOMATCHES_%3dgraphical%252fno_matches%252ehtml%26_IXMAXHITS_%3d1%26_IXDB_%3dcompass%26_IXSESSION_%3d7q_PyrzUX1l%26_IXFIRST_%3d1&amp;_IXFIRST_=1&amp;_IXMAXHITS_=1&amp;_IXSPFX_=graphical/full/&amp;_IXimg=ps260150.jpg&amp;submit-button=summary">the original</a> on 24 March 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=The+Battersea+Shield&amp;rft.pub=British+Museum&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk%2Fcompass%2Fixbin%2Fhixclient.exe%3F_IXDB_%3Dcompass%26_IXSR_%3Dwt9%26_IXSS_%3D%252524%252bwith%252ball_unique_id_index%252bis%252b%252524%253dOBJ1172%2526_IXNOMATCHES_%253dgraphical%25252fno_matches%25252ehtml%2526_IXMAXHITS_%253d1%2526_IXDB_%253dcompass%2526_IXSESSION_%253d7q_PyrzUX1l%2526_IXFIRST_%253d1%26_IXFIRST_%3D1%26_IXMAXHITS_%3D1%26_IXSPFX_%3Dgraphical%2Ffull%2F%26_IXimg%3Dps260150.jpg%26submit-button%3Dsummary&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-105"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-105">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/cisp/database/stone/aglis_1.html">"CISP entry"</a>. 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Ir Indo, Vigo.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Guénon-2001-109"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Guénon-2001_109-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guénon-2001_109-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGuénon2001" class="citation book cs1">Guénon, René (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CQRWnf2JflQC&amp;q=lithuania+use+of+swastika&amp;pg=PA62"><i>The Symbolism of the Cross</i></a>. Sophia Perennis. p.&#160;62. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0900588655" title="Special:BookSources/978-0900588655"><bdi>978-0900588655</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Symbolism+of+the+Cross&amp;rft.pages=62&amp;rft.pub=Sophia+Perennis&amp;rft.date=2001&amp;rft.isbn=978-0900588655&amp;rft.aulast=Gu%C3%A9non&amp;rft.aufirst=Ren%C3%A9&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCQRWnf2JflQC%26q%3Dlithuania%2Buse%2Bof%2Bswastika%26pg%3DPA62&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://latvians.com/index.php?en/CFBH/Zimes/zimes-10-rhetoric.ssi#WIKFN3">"Latvia and the Swastika"</a>. <i>latvians.com</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 November</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=latvians.com&amp;rft.atitle=Latvia+and+the+Swastika&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Flatvians.com%2Findex.php%3Fen%2FCFBH%2FZimes%2Fzimes-10-rhetoric.ssi%23WIKFN3&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Old_Slavic_Symbols-111"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Old_Slavic_Symbols_111-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141011213412/http://www.slowianie.republika.pl/drzeworyty.htm">"Prasłowiańskie motywy architektoniczne"</a>. 1923. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://slowianie.republika.pl/drzeworyty.htm">the original</a> on 11 October 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">19 May</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Pras%C5%82owia%C5%84skie+motywy+architektoniczne&amp;rft.date=1923&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fslowianie.republika.pl%2Fdrzeworyty.htm&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-112"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-112">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGajl2007" class="citation book cs1">Gajl, Tadeusz (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://gajl.wielcy.pl/herby_nazwiska.php?lang=en&amp;herb=borejko"><i>Polish Armorial Middle Ages to 20th Century</i></a>. Gdańsk: L&amp;L. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-83-60597-10-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-83-60597-10-1"><bdi>978-83-60597-10-1</bdi></a> &#8211; via Gajl.wielcy.pl.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Polish+Armorial+Middle+Ages+to+20th+Century&amp;rft.place=Gda%C5%84sk&amp;rft.pub=L%26L&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=978-83-60597-10-1&amp;rft.aulast=Gajl&amp;rft.aufirst=Tadeusz&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fgajl.wielcy.pl%2Fherby_nazwiska.php%3Flang%3Den%26herb%3Dborejko&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Kuftin-113"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Kuftin_113-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Kuftin_113-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKuftin1926" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Kuftin, Boris A. (1926). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perunica.ru/tradicii/9947-kuftin-ba-materialnaja-kultura-russkoj-meschery-1926-pdf-rus.html"><i>Материальная культура Русской Мещеры. Ч. 1: Женская одежда: рубаха, понева, сарафан</i></a> &#91;<i>Material culture of Russian Meshchera. Part 1: Women's clothing: shirt, poniova, sarafan</i>&#93;. Proceedings of the State Museum of the Central Industrial Region, 3 (in Russian). Moscow: Tip. "Tajninskij pečatnik". pp.&#160;62–64. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a>&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/490308640">490308640</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0+%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9+%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%89%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B.+%D0%A7.+1%3A+%D0%96%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B0%3A+%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%85%D0%B0%2C+%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0%2C+%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BD&amp;rft.place=Moscow&amp;rft.series=Proceedings+of+the+State+Museum+of+the+Central+Industrial+Region%2C+3&amp;rft.pages=62-64&amp;rft.pub=Tip.+%22Tajninskij+pe%C4%8Datnik%22&amp;rft.date=1926&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F490308640&amp;rft.aulast=Kuftin&amp;rft.aufirst=Boris+A.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.perunica.ru%2Ftradicii%2F9947-kuftin-ba-materialnaja-kultura-russkoj-meschery-1926-pdf-rus.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-echoMsk-114"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-echoMsk_114-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFБагдасаров" class="citation web cs1">Багдасаров, Роман. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120710110211/http://echo.msk.ru/programs/victory/559590-echo/">"Свастика: благословение или проклятие"</a>. <i>Цена Победы</i>. <a href="/wiki/Echo_of_Moscow" title="Echo of Moscow">Echo of Moscow</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/victory/559590-echo/">the original</a> on 10 July 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">7 April</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8B&amp;rft.atitle=%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%3A+%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B5&amp;rft.aulast=%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2&amp;rft.aufirst=%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.echo.msk.ru%2Fprograms%2Fvictory%2F559590-echo%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span> A 2008 interview with historian Roman Bagdasarov. Bagdasarov states that "for some reason, Russian people think that 'kolovrat' is the ancient name of the swastika. But this is absolutely not the case. [...] According to ethnographic records, when I went on expeditions, and so on, the swastika, for example, was called 'veterok' ['breeze']."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bogdasarov2002-115"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bogdasarov2002_115-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFБагдасаров_Р._В.2002" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-script cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Багдасаров Р. В. (2002) [2001]. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bagdasarovr.narod.ru/swastika.htm#imena">"Русские имена свастики"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bagdasarovr.narod.ru/swastika.htm"><bdi lang="ru">Свастика: священный символ. Этнорелигиоведческие очерки</bdi></a> (in Russian) (2nd&#160;ed.). 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Bloomsbury Academic. pp.&#160;111–114. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-485-89105-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-485-89105-8"><bdi>978-0-485-89105-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Witchcraft+and+Magic+in+Europe%2C+Volume+6%3A+The+Twentieth+Century&amp;rft.pages=111-114&amp;rft.pub=Bloomsbury+Academic&amp;rft.date=1999&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-485-89105-8&amp;rft.au=Marijke+Gijswijt-Hofstra&amp;rft.au=Brian+P.+Levack&amp;rft.au=Roy+Porter&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DIurTAwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA111&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-179"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-179">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStefanie_von_Schnurbein2016" class="citation book cs1">Stefanie von Schnurbein (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrdejgEACAAJ"><i>Norse Revival: Transformations of Germanic Neopaganism</i></a>. Brill Academic. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-29435-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-29435-6"><bdi>978-90-04-29435-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Norse+Revival%3A+Transformations+of+Germanic+Neopaganism&amp;rft.pub=Brill+Academic&amp;rft.date=2016&amp;rft.isbn=978-90-04-29435-6&amp;rft.au=Stefanie+von+Schnurbein&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DZrdejgEACAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMees2008141,_193–194,_210–211,_226–227-180"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMees2008141,_193–194,_210–211,_226–227_180-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFMees2008">Mees (2008)</a>, pp.&#160;141, 193–194, 210–211, 226–227.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-181"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-181">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFA.2018" class="citation news cs1">A., Aleksandra (18 March 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240730015500/https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/03/18/mysterious-wwii/">"Planted in 1933 this mysterious forest swastika remained unnoticed until 1992 – it was then quickly cut down"</a>. <i>The Vintage News</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 September</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Vintage+News&amp;rft.atitle=Planted+in+1933+this+mysterious+forest+swastika+remained+unnoticed+until+1992+%E2%80%93+it+was+then+quickly+cut+down&amp;rft.date=2018-03-18&amp;rft.aulast=A.&amp;rft.aufirst=Aleksandra&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thevintagenews.com%2F2018%2F03%2F18%2Fmysterious-wwii%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-182"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-182">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">"Der Flaggenkurier". <i>Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Flaggenkunde</i> (in German) (16/2002 bis 30/2009). 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"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://flagspot.net/flags/de%7Dns_or.html#ont">Order of the New Templars 1907</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050208034139/http://flagspot.net/flags/de%7Dns_or.html#ont">Archived</a> 8 February 2005 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Flags_of_the_World_(website)" title="Flags of the World (website)">Flags of the World</a></i>. 21 January 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Goodrick-Clarke1997/2006-184"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Goodrick-Clarke1997/2006_184-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoodrick-Clarke2004" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2004). 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The two flags in recent years have been commonly seen together at white supremacist groups and gatherings.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=mcclatchydc.com&amp;rft.atitle=How+Germany+dealt+with+its+symbols+of+hate&amp;rft.date=2015-07-30&amp;rft.aulast=Schofield&amp;rft.aufirst=Matthew&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcclatchydc.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Fworld%2Farticle29557972.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dickter-244"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Dickter_244-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDickterLipmanSavage2010" class="citation web cs1">Dickter, Adam; Lipman, Steve; Savage, Nigel (1 June 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/adl-downgrades-swastika-as-jewish-hate-symbol/">"ADL Downgrades Swastika As Jewish Hate Symbol"</a>. <i>Jewish Week</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">3 December</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Victoria+Legal+Aid&amp;rft.atitle=The+ban+on+Nazi+symbols+and+gestures+in+Victoria&amp;rft.date=2023-11&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.legalaid.vic.gov.au%2Fban-nazi-symbols-gestures-victoria&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Goldman_2010-248"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Goldman_2010_248-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoldman2010" class="citation web cs1">Goldman, Tom (23 November 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101123135409/https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105501-Black-Ops-Swastika-Emblems-Will-Earn-Xbox-Live-Ban">"Black Ops Swastika Emblems Will Earn Xbox Live Ban"</a>. <i>escapistmagazine.com</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105501-Black-Ops-Swastika-Emblems-Will-Earn-Xbox-Live-Ban">the original</a> on 23 November 2010.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=escapistmagazine.com&amp;rft.atitle=Black+Ops+Swastika+Emblems+Will+Earn+Xbox+Live+Ban&amp;rft.date=2010-11-23&amp;rft.aulast=Goldman&amp;rft.aufirst=Tom&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.escapistmagazine.com%2Fnews%2Fview%2F105501-Black-Ops-Swastika-Emblems-Will-Earn-Xbox-Live-Ban&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Telotte_2008_p.201-249"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Telotte_2008_p.201_249-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTelotte2008" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Jay_Telotte" title="Jay Telotte">Telotte, Jay P.</a> (2008). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mousemachinedisn0000telo/page/201/mode/2up"><i>The Mouse Machine: Disney and Technology</i></a></span>. 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London: Routledge. p.&#160;61. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0415355933" title="Special:BookSources/978-0415355933"><bdi>978-0415355933</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Racist+Extremism+in+Central+and+Eastern+Europe&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.series=Routledge+studies+in+extremism+and+democracy&amp;rft.pages=61&amp;rft.pub=Routledge&amp;rft.date=2005&amp;rft.isbn=978-0415355933&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-254"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-254">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theinsider.ua/politics/55cdd8ccea6a8/">"Сомнительная символика в лагере Азовец: зачем выглядеть, как сторонники ДНР?"</a> &#91;Doubtful symbols in the Azovets camp: why look like DNR supporters?&#93;. <i>www.theinsider.ua</i> (in Ukrainian).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.theinsider.ua&amp;rft.atitle=%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%B2+%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5+%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86%3A+%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BC+%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%8C%2C+%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BA+%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D0%94%D0%9D%D0%A0%3F&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theinsider.ua%2Fpolitics%2F55cdd8ccea6a8%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-255"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-255">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLikhachev2016" class="citation web cs1">Likhachev, Vyacheslav (July 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/rnv95_uk_likhachev_far-right_radicals_final.pdf">"The Far Right in the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/Russie.NEI.Visions_in_English" title="Russie.NEI.Visions in English">Russie.NEI.Visions in English</a>. pp.&#160;18–26. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161026151159/https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/rnv95_uk_likhachev_far-right_radicals_final.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 26 October 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=The+Far+Right+in+the+Conflict+between+Russia+and+Ukraine&amp;rft.pages=18-26&amp;rft.pub=Russie.NEI.Visions+in+English&amp;rft.date=2016-07&amp;rft.aulast=Likhachev&amp;rft.aufirst=Vyacheslav&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifri.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fatoms%2Ffiles%2Frnv95_uk_likhachev_far-right_radicals_final.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-256"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-256">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.haaretz.com/2014-09-09/ty-article/ukrainian-soldiers-seen-wearing-nazi-symbols/0000017f-e17a-d568-ad7f-f37b64d50000">"Ukrainian Soldiers Seen Wearing Helmets With Nazi Swastika and SS Symbols"</a>. 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Phelps in "Dokumentation" in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ifz-muenchen.de/heftarchiv/1968_4.pdf"><i>Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte</i></a> (PDF), published October 1968. In German: "<i>Sie finden dieses Kreuz als Hackenkreuz nicht nur hier, sondern genau so in Indien und Japan in den Tempelpfosten eingemeißelt. Es ist das Hackenkreuz der einst von arischer Kultur gegründeten Gemeinwesen.</i>" English translation: "You will find this cross as a swastika as far as India and Japan, carved in the temple pillars. It is the swastika, which was once a sign of established communities of Aryan Culture."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-USA_Today,_Marc_Ramirez,_August_28,_2022-263"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-USA_Today,_Marc_Ramirez,_August_28,_2022_263-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRamirez" class="citation news cs1">Ramirez, Marc. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/08/28/swastika-hate-symbol-link-dharmic-faiths/10342050002/">"Is the swastika a symbol of hate or peaceful icon? Faith groups try to save reviled emblem"</a>. <i>USA Today</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 February</span> 2022</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Print+Magazine&amp;rft.atitle=The+Daily+Heller%3A+Anti-hate+Symbol+Law+Will+Foster+More+Hate&amp;rft.date=2021-03-09&amp;rft.aulast=Heller&amp;rft.aufirst=Steven&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.printmag.com%2Fdaily-heller%2Fthe-daily-heller-anti-hate-symbol-law-will-foster-more-hate%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> </div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMees2008" class="citation book cs1">Mees, Bernard (2008). <i>The Science of the Swastika</i>. Budapest: Central European University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9639776180" title="Special:BookSources/978-9639776180"><bdi>978-9639776180</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Science+of+the+Swastika&amp;rft.place=Budapest&amp;rft.pub=Central+European+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=978-9639776180&amp;rft.aulast=Mees&amp;rft.aufirst=Bernard&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcKay" class="citation book cs1">McKay, George. <i>Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe</i>. p.&#160;282.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Subcultures+and+New+Religious+Movements+in+Russia+and+East-Central+Europe&amp;rft.pages=282&amp;rft.aulast=McKay&amp;rft.aufirst=George&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASwastika" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFQuinn2005" class="citation book cs1">Quinn, Malcolm (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ExqIAgAAQBAJ"><i>The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol</i></a>. 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title="Varuna">Varuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vayu" title="Vayu">Vayu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Hindu_gods" title="Category:Hindu gods"><i>more</i></a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#FFC569;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Devi" title="Devi">Goddesses</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tridevi" title="Tridevi">Tridevi</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saraswati" title="Saraswati">Saraswati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakshmi" title="Lakshmi">Lakshmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parvati" title="Parvati">Parvati</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhumi_(goddess)" title="Bhumi (goddess)">Bhumi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durga" title="Durga">Durga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kali" title="Kali">Kali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahavidya" title="Mahavidya">Mahavidya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrika" 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href="/wiki/Worship_in_Hinduism" title="Worship in Hinduism">Worship</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_temple" title="Hindu temple">Temple</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murti" title="Murti">Murti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puja_(Hinduism)" title="Puja (Hinduism)">Puja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhakti" title="Bhakti">Bhakti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japa" title="Japa">Japa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhajan" title="Bhajan">Bhajan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naivedhya" class="mw-redirect" title="Naivedhya">Naivedhya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yajna" title="Yajna">Yajna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homa_(ritual)" title="Homa (ritual)">Homa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tapas_(Indian_religions)" title="Tapas (Indian religions)">Tapas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhy%C4%81na_in_Hinduism" class="mw-redirect" title="Dhyāna in Hinduism">Dhyāna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindu_pilgrimage_sites_in_India" title="Hindu pilgrimage sites in India">Tirthatana</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#FFC569;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Sanskara_(rite_of_passage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Sanskara (rite of passage)">Sanskaras</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Garbhadhana" title="Garbhadhana">Garbhadhana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pumsavana" title="Pumsavana">Pumsavana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pumsavana_Simantonayana" title="Pumsavana Simantonayana">Simantonayana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jatakarma" title="Jatakarma">Jatakarma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/N%C4%81makara%E1%B9%87a" title="Nāmakaraṇa">Namakarana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nishkramana" title="Nishkramana">Nishkramana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annaprashana" title="Annaprashana">Annaprashana</a></li> 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Way</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/The_Buddha" title="The Buddha">The Buddha</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tath%C4%81gata" title="Tathāgata">Tathāgata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddha%27s_Birthday" title="Buddha&#39;s Birthday">Birthday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_sights" title="Four sights">Four sights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Eight_Great_Events_in_the_Life_of_Buddha" title="The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha">Eight Great Events</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Renunciation" title="Great Renunciation">Great Renunciation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Physical_characteristics_of_the_Buddha" title="Physical characteristics of the Buddha">Physical characteristics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Life_of_Buddha_in_art" title="Life of Buddha in art">Life of Buddha in art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddha_footprint" title="Buddha footprint">Footprint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relics_associated_with_Buddha" title="Relics associated with Buddha">Relics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iconography_of_Gautama_Buddha_in_Laos_and_Thailand" title="Iconography of Gautama Buddha in Laos and Thailand">Iconography in Laos and Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Depictions_of_Gautama_Buddha_in_film" title="Depictions of Gautama Buddha in film">Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miracles_of_Gautama_Buddha" title="Miracles of Gautama Buddha">Miracles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_of_Gautama_Buddha" title="Family of Gautama Buddha">Family</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9Auddhodana" title="Śuddhodana">Suddhodāna <small>(father)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maya_(mother_of_the_Buddha)" title="Maya (mother of the Buddha)">Māyā <small>(mother)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahapajapati_Gotami" title="Mahapajapati Gotami">Mahapajapati Gotamī<small> (aunt, adoptive mother)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ya%C5%9Bodhar%C4%81" title="Yaśodharā">Yaśodharā <small>(wife)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C4%81hula" title="Rāhula">Rāhula <small>(son)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%80nanda" title="Ānanda">Ānanda <small>(cousin)</small></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Devadatta" title="Devadatta">Devadatta <small>(cousin)</small></a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_where_Gautama_Buddha_stayed" title="List of places where Gautama Buddha stayed">Places where the Buddha stayed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gautama_Buddha_in_world_religions" title="Gautama Buddha in world religions">Buddha in world religions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Bodhisattva" title="Bodhisattva">Bodhisattvas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Avalokite%C5%9Bvara" title="Avalokiteśvara">Avalokiteśvara</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guanyin" title="Guanyin">Guanyin</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manjushri" title="Manjushri">Mañjuśrī</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahasthamaprapta" title="Mahasthamaprapta">Mahāsthāmaprāpta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%80k%C4%81%C5%9Bagarbha" title="Ākāśagarbha">Ākāśagarbha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K%E1%B9%A3itigarbha" title="Kṣitigarbha">Kṣitigarbha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samantabhadra_(Bodhisattva)" title="Samantabhadra (Bodhisattva)">Samantabhadra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vajrapani" title="Vajrapani">Vajrapāṇi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skanda_(Buddhism)" title="Skanda (Buddhism)">Skanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tara_(Buddhism)" title="Tara (Buddhism)">Tārā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maitreya" title="Maitreya">Metteyya/Maitreya</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Disciples_of_Gautama_Buddha" title="Category:Disciples of Gautama Buddha">Disciples</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaundinya" title="Kaundinya">Kaundinya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assaji" title="Assaji">Assaji</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9A%C4%81riputra" title="Śāriputra">Sāriputta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maudgalyayana" title="Maudgalyayana">Mahamoggallāna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C4%80nanda" title="Ānanda">Ānanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mah%C4%81k%C4%81%C5%9Byapa" title="Mahākāśyapa">Mahākassapa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%E1%B9%85gulim%C4%81la" title="Aṅgulimāla">Aṅgulimāla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anuruddha" title="Anuruddha">Anuruddha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katyayana_(Buddhist)" title="Katyayana (Buddhist)">Mahākaccana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanda_(half-brother_of_Buddha)" title="Nanda (half-brother of Buddha)">Nanda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Subh%C5%ABti" title="Subhūti">Subhūti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pu%E1%B9%87%E1%B9%87a_Mant%C4%81n%C4%ABputta" title="Puṇṇa Mantānīputta">Puṇṇa Mantānīputta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Up%C4%81li" title="Upāli">Upāli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahapajapati_Gotami" title="Mahapajapati Gotami">Mahapajapati Gotamī</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khema" title="Khema">Khema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uppalavanna" title="Uppalavanna">Uppalavanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asita" title="Asita">Asita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Channa_(Buddhist)" title="Channa (Buddhist)">Channa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yasa" title="Yasa">Yasa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Glossary_of_Buddhism" title="Glossary of Buddhism">Key concepts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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title="Mindstream">Mindstream</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parinirvana" title="Parinirvana">Parinirvana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prat%C4%ABtyasamutp%C4%81da" title="Pratītyasamutpāda">Pratītyasamutpāda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebirth_(Buddhism)" title="Rebirth (Buddhism)">Rebirth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra_(Buddhism)" title="Saṃsāra (Buddhism)">Saṃsāra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sa%E1%B9%85kh%C4%81ra" title="Saṅkhāra">Saṅkhāra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skandha" title="Skandha">Skandha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81" title="Śūnyatā">Śūnyatā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ta%E1%B9%87h%C4%81" title="Taṇhā">Taṇhā (Craving)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tath%C4%81t%C4%81" title="Tathātā">Tathātā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fetter_(Buddhism)" title="Fetter (Buddhism)">Ten Fetters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Three_marks_of_existence" title="Three marks of existence">Three marks of existence</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Impermanence_(Buddhism)" title="Impermanence (Buddhism)">Anicca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du%E1%B8%A5kha" title="Duḥkha">Dukkha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anatt%C4%81" title="Anattā">Anattā</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Two_truths_doctrine" title="Two truths doctrine">Two truths doctrine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_cosmology" title="Buddhist cosmology">Cosmology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ten_realms" title="Ten realms">Ten spiritual realms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Six_Paths" title="Six Paths">Six Paths</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Deva_(Buddhism)" title="Deva (Buddhism)">Deva realm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_beings_in_Buddhism" title="Human beings in Buddhism">Human realm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asura_(Buddhism)" title="Asura (Buddhism)">Asura realm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preta" title="Preta">Hungry Ghost realm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Animals_in_Buddhism" title="Animals in Buddhism">Animal realm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naraka_(Buddhism)" title="Naraka (Buddhism)">Naraka</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trailokya" title="Trailokya">Three planes of existence</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Schools_of_Buddhism" title="Schools of Buddhism">Branches</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahayana" title="Mahayana">Mahayana</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zen" title="Zen">Zen</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chan_Buddhism" title="Chan Buddhism">Chinese Chan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_Zen" title="Japanese Zen">Japanese Zen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Seon" title="Korean Seon">Korean Seon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thi%E1%BB%81n" title="Thiền">Vietnamese Thiền</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pure_Land_Buddhism" title="Pure Land Buddhism">Pure Land</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiantai" title="Tiantai">Tiantai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huayan" title="Huayan">Huayan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rissh%C5%AB_(Buddhism)" title="Risshū (Buddhism)">Risshū</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nichiren_Buddhism" title="Nichiren Buddhism">Nichiren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madhyamaka" title="Madhyamaka">Madhyamaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yogachara" title="Yogachara">Yogachara</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vajrayana" title="Vajrayana">Vajrayana</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibetan Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Esoteric_Buddhism" title="Chinese Esoteric Buddhism">Chinese Esoteric Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shingon_Buddhism" title="Shingon Buddhism">Shingon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dzogchen" title="Dzogchen">Dzogchen</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theravada" title="Theravada">Theravada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navayana" title="Navayana">Navayana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_Buddhist_schools" title="Early Buddhist schools">Early Buddhist schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pre-sectarian_Buddhism" title="Pre-sectarian Buddhism">Pre-sectarian Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basic_points_unifying_Therav%C4%81da_and_Mah%C4%81y%C4%81na" title="Basic points unifying Theravāda and Mahāyāna">Basic points unifying Theravāda and Mahāyāna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Southern,_Eastern_and_Northern_Buddhism" title="Southern, Eastern and Northern Buddhism">Southern, Eastern and Northern Buddhism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Buddhist_practices" title="Category:Buddhist practices">Practices</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhavana" title="Bhavana">Bhavana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodhipakkhiy%C4%81dhamm%C4%81" title="Bodhipakkhiyādhammā">Bodhipakkhiyādhammā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brahmavihara" title="Brahmavihara">Brahmavihara</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maitr%C4%AB" title="Maitrī">Mettā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karu%E1%B9%87%C4%81" title="Karuṇā">Karuṇā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mudita" title="Mudita">Mudita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upek%E1%B9%A3%C4%81" title="Upekṣā">Upekkha</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddh%C4%81bhi%E1%B9%A3eka" title="Buddhābhiṣeka">Buddhābhiṣeka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C4%81na" title="Dāna">Dāna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_devotion" title="Buddhist devotion">Devotion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deity_yoga" title="Deity yoga">Deity yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhyana_in_Buddhism" title="Dhyana in Buddhism">Dhyāna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faith_in_Buddhism" title="Faith in Buddhism">Faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Five_Strengths" title="Five Strengths">Five Strengths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iddhipada" title="Iddhipada">Iddhipada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_meditation" title="Buddhist meditation">Meditation</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mantra#Buddhism" title="Mantra">Mantras</a></li> <li><span title="International Alphabet of Sanskrit transliteration"><i lang="sa-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Kamma%E1%B9%AD%E1%B9%ADh%C4%81na" title="Kammaṭṭhāna">Kammaṭṭhāna</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anussati" title="Anussati">Recollection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simran" title="Simran">Smarana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anapanasati" title="Anapanasati">Anapanasati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samatha-vipassan%C4%81" title="Samatha-vipassanā">Samatha-vipassanā</a> (<a href="/wiki/Vipassana_movement" title="Vipassana movement">Vipassana movement</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shikantaza" title="Shikantaza">Shikantaza</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zazen" title="Zazen">Zazen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tukdam" title="Tukdam">Tukdam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Koan" title="Koan">Koan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ganana" title="Ganana">Ganana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandala" title="Mandala">Mandala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonglen" title="Tonglen">Tonglen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tantra" title="Tantra">Tantra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tert%C3%B6n" title="Tertön">Tertön</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terma_(religion)" title="Terma (religion)">Terma</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merit_(Buddhism)" title="Merit (Buddhism)">Merit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mindfulness" title="Mindfulness">Mindfulness</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mindful_Yoga" title="Mindful Yoga">Mindful Yoga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satipatthana" title="Satipatthana">Satipatthana</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nekkhamma" title="Nekkhamma">Nekkhamma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nianfo" title="Nianfo">Nianfo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C4%81ramit%C4%81" title="Pāramitā">Pāramitā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paritta" title="Paritta">Paritta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_devotion" title="Buddhist devotion">Puja</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Offering_(Buddhism)" title="Offering (Buddhism)">Offerings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prostration_(Buddhism)" title="Prostration (Buddhism)">Prostration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_music" title="Buddhist music">Music</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Refuge_in_Buddhism" title="Refuge in Buddhism">Refuge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/S%C4%81dhu_(Pali_word)" title="Sādhu (Pali word)">Sādhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satya" title="Satya">Satya</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sacca" title="Sacca">Sacca</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seven_Factors_of_Awakening" title="Seven Factors of Awakening">Seven Factors of Enlightenment</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sati_(Buddhism)" title="Sati (Buddhism)">Sati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhamma_vicaya" title="Dhamma vicaya">Dhamma vicaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/P%C4%ABti" title="Pīti">Pīti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Passaddhi" title="Passaddhi">Passaddhi</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_ethics" title="Buddhist ethics">Śīla</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Five_precepts" title="Five precepts">Five precepts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eight_precepts" title="Eight precepts">Eight precepts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodhisattva_vow" title="Bodhisattva vow">Bodhisattva vow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratimok%E1%B9%A3a" title="Pratimokṣa">Pratimokṣa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Threefold_Training" title="Threefold Training">Threefold Training</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_ethics" title="Buddhist ethics">Śīla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samadhi" title="Samadhi">Samadhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Praj%C3%B1%C4%81_(Buddhism)" title="Prajñā (Buddhism)">Prajñā</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C4%ABrya" title="Vīrya">Vīrya</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Four_Right_Exertions" title="Four Right Exertions">Four Right Exertions</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Twenty-two_vows_of_Ambedkar" title="Twenty-two vows of Ambedkar">Twenty-two vows of Ambedkar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nirvana" title="Nirvana">Nirvana</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Enlightenment_in_Buddhism" title="Enlightenment in Buddhism">Bodhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodhisattva" title="Bodhisattva">Bodhisattva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhahood" title="Buddhahood">Buddhahood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratyekabuddhay%C4%81na" title="Pratyekabuddhayāna">Pratyekabuddhayāna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_stages_of_awakening" title="Four stages of awakening">Four stages of awakening</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sot%C4%81panna" title="Sotāpanna">Sotāpanna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakadagami" title="Sakadagami">Sakadagami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/An%C4%81g%C4%81mi" title="Anāgāmi">Anāgāmi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arhat" title="Arhat">Arhat</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_monasticism" title="Buddhist monasticism">Monasticism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bhikkhu" title="Bhikkhu">Bhikkhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhikkhun%C4%AB" title="Bhikkhunī">Bhikkhunī</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samanera" title="Samanera">Śrāmaṇera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samanera" title="Samanera">Śrāmaṇerī</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anag%C4%81rika" title="Anagārika">Anagārika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajahn" title="Ajahn">Ajahn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sayadaw" title="Sayadaw">Sayadaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zen_master" title="Zen master">Zen master</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/R%C5%8Dshi" title="Rōshi">Rōshi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lama" title="Lama">Lama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rinpoche" title="Rinpoche">Rinpoche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geshe" title="Geshe">Geshe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tulku" title="Tulku">Tulku</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Western_tulku" title="Western tulku">Western tulku</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kappiya" title="Kappiya">Kappiya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donchee" title="Donchee">Donchee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Householder_(Buddhism)" title="Householder (Buddhism)">Householder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Up%C4%81saka_and_Up%C4%81sik%C4%81" class="mw-redirect" title="Upāsaka and Upāsikā">Upāsaka and Upāsikā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Achar_(Buddhism)" title="Achar (Buddhism)">Achar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%9Ar%C4%81vaka" title="Śrāvaka">Śrāvaka</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ten_principal_disciples" title="Ten principal disciples">Ten principal disciples</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaolin_Monastery" title="Shaolin Monastery">Shaolin Monastery</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Buddhists" title="List of Buddhists">Major figures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_Buddha" title="The Buddha">The Buddha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagasena" title="Nagasena">Nagasena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A%C5%9Bvagho%E1%B9%A3a" title="Aśvaghoṣa">Aśvaghoṣa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagarjuna" title="Nagarjuna">Nagarjuna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asanga" title="Asanga">Asanga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vasubandhu" title="Vasubandhu">Vasubandhu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kum%C4%81raj%C4%ABva" title="Kumārajīva">Kumārajīva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhaghosa" title="Buddhaghosa">Buddhaghosa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhap%C4%81lita" title="Buddhapālita">Buddhapālita</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dign%C4%81ga" title="Dignāga">Dignāga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodhidharma" title="Bodhidharma">Bodhidharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zhiyi" title="Zhiyi">Zhiyi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emperor_Wen_of_Sui" title="Emperor Wen of Sui">Emperor Wen of Sui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Songtsen_Gampo" title="Songtsen Gampo">Songtsen Gampo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xuanzang" title="Xuanzang">Xuanzang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shandao" title="Shandao">Shandao</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Padmasambhava" title="Padmasambhava">Padmasambhava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saraha" title="Saraha">Saraha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ati%C5%9Ba" title="Atiśa">Atiśa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naropa" title="Naropa">Naropa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karmapa" title="Karmapa">Karmapa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H%C5%8Dnen" title="Hōnen">Hōnen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shinran" title="Shinran">Shinran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D%C5%8Dgen" title="Dōgen">Dōgen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nichiren" title="Nichiren">Nichiren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shamarpa" title="Shamarpa">Shamarpa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalai_Lama" title="Dalai Lama">Dalai Lama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panchen_Lama" title="Panchen Lama">Panchen Lama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajahn_Mun" title="Ajahn Mun">Ajahn Mun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar" title="B. R. Ambedkar">B. R. Ambedkar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ajahn_Chah" title="Ajahn Chah">Ajahn Chah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Nh%E1%BA%A5t_H%E1%BA%A1nh" title="Thích Nhất Hạnh">Thích Nhất Hạnh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_texts" title="Buddhist texts">Texts</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Early_Buddhist_texts" title="Early Buddhist texts">Early Buddhist texts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tripi%E1%B9%ADaka" title="Tripiṭaka">Tripiṭaka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mahayana_sutras" title="Mahayana sutras">Mahayana sutras</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pali_Canon" title="Pali Canon">Pali Canon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Buddhist_canon" title="Chinese Buddhist canon">Chinese Buddhist canon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhist_canon" title="Tibetan Buddhist canon">Tibetan Buddhist canon</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dhammapada" title="Dhammapada">Dhammapada</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sutra" title="Sutra">Sutra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vinaya" title="Vinaya">Vinaya</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Madhyamak%C4%81la%E1%B9%83k%C4%81ra" title="Madhyamakālaṃkāra">Madhyamakālaṃkāra</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abhidharmad%C4%ABpa" title="Abhidharmadīpa">Abhidharmadīpa</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_by_country" title="Buddhism by country">Countries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Afghanistan" title="Buddhism in Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Bangladesh" title="Buddhism in Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Bhutan" title="Buddhism in Bhutan">Bhutan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Cambodia" title="Buddhism in Cambodia">Cambodia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_China" title="Buddhism in China">China</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Buddhism_in_India" title="History of Buddhism in India">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Indonesia" title="Buddhism in Indonesia">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Japan" title="Buddhism in Japan">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Buddhism" title="Korean Buddhism">Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Laos" title="Buddhism in Laos">Laos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Malaysia" title="Buddhism in Malaysia">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_Maldives" title="Buddhism in the Maldives">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Mongolia" title="Buddhism in Mongolia">Mongolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Myanmar" title="Buddhism in Myanmar">Myanmar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Nepal" title="Buddhism in Nepal">Nepal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Pakistan" title="Buddhism in Pakistan">Pakistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_Philippines" title="Buddhism in the Philippines">Philippines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Russia" title="Buddhism in Russia">Russia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Buryatia" title="Buddhism in Buryatia">Buryatia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Kalmykia" title="Buddhism in Kalmykia">Kalmykia</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Buddhism_in_Tuva&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Buddhism in Tuva (page does not exist)">Tuva</a> (<a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%BC_%D0%B2_%D0%A2%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B5" class="extiw" title="ru:Буддизм в Тыве">ru</a>)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Singapore" title="Buddhism in Singapore">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Sri_Lanka" title="Buddhism in Sri Lanka">Sri Lanka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Taiwan" title="Buddhism in Taiwan">Taiwan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Thailand" title="Buddhism in Thailand">Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhism" title="Tibetan Buddhism">Tibet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Vietnam" title="Buddhism in Vietnam">Vietnam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Africa" title="Buddhism in Africa">Africa</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Senegal" title="Buddhism in Senegal">Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_South_Africa" title="Buddhism in South Africa">South Africa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Central_Asia" title="Buddhism in Central Asia">Central Asia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Uzbekistan" title="Buddhism in Uzbekistan">Uzbekistan</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_Middle_East" title="Buddhism in the Middle East">Middle East</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Iran" title="Buddhism in 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href="/wiki/Greco-Buddhism" title="Greco-Buddhism">Greco-Buddhism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gandharan_Buddhism" title="Gandharan Buddhism">Gandharan Buddhism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gandh%C4%81ran_Buddhist_texts" title="Gandhāran Buddhist texts">Texts</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menander_I" title="Menander I">Menander I</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_and_the_Roman_world" title="Buddhism and the Roman world">Buddhism and the Roman world</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_the_West" title="Buddhism in the West">Buddhism in the West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Silk_Road_transmission_of_Buddhism" title="Silk Road transmission of Buddhism">Silk Road transmission of Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_Buddhists" title="Persecution of Buddhists">Persecution of Buddhists</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_in_Afghanistan" title="Buddhism in Afghanistan">In Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_crisis" title="Buddhist crisis">In Vietnam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rim%C3%A9_movement" title="Rimé movement">Rimé movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banishment_of_Buddhist_monks_from_Nepal" title="Banishment of Buddhist monks from Nepal">Banishment of Buddhist monks from Nepal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement" title="Dalit Buddhist movement">Dalit Buddhist movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" title="Annexation of Tibet by the People&#39;s Republic of China">Chinese invasion of Tibet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1959_Tibetan_uprising" title="1959 Tibetan uprising">1959 Tibetan uprising</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sinhalese_Buddhist_nationalism" title="Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism">Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_modernism" title="Buddhist modernism">Buddhist modernism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vipassana_movement" title="Vipassana movement">Vipassana movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/969_Movement" title="969 Movement">969 Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Engaged_Buddhism" title="Engaged Buddhism">Engaged Buddhism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_Buddhism" title="Women in Buddhism">Women in Buddhism</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #FFD068;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_philosophy" title="Buddhist philosophy">Philosophy</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abhidharma" title="Abhidharma">Abhidharma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_atomism" title="Buddhist atomism">Atomism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_studies" title="Buddhist studies">Buddhology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Creator_in_Buddhism" title="Creator in Buddhism">Creator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhism_and_democracy" title="Buddhism and democracy">Buddhism and democracy</a></li> <li><a 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title="Greco-Buddhist art">Greco-Buddhist</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bodhi_Tree" title="Bodhi Tree">Bodhi Tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budai" title="Budai">Budai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddha_in_art" title="Buddha in art">Buddha in art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_calendar" title="Buddhist calendar">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_cuisine" title="Buddhist cuisine">Cuisine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_funeral" title="Buddhist funeral">Funeral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddhist_holidays" title="Buddhist holidays">Holidays</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vesak" title="Vesak">Vesak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uposatha" title="Uposatha">Uposatha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81gha_P%C5%ABj%C4%81" title="Māgha Pūjā">Māgha Pūjā</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asalha_Puja" title="Asalha Puja">Asalha Puja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vassa" title="Vassa">Vassa</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jaya_Sri_Maha_Bodhi" title="Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi">Jaya 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title="Gestapo">Geheime Staatspolizei</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Deutscher_Fichte-Bund" title="Deutscher Fichte-Bund">Deutscher Fichte-Bund</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Deutsches_Jungvolk" title="Deutsches Jungvolk">Deutsches Jungvolk</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Franz_Eher_Nachfolger" title="Franz Eher Nachfolger">Franz Eher Nachfolger</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hitler_Youth" title="Hitler Youth">Hitler Youth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/League_of_German_Girls" title="League of German Girls">League of German Girls</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Organisation_Todt" title="Organisation Todt">Organisation Todt</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_German_Doctors%27_League" title="National Socialist German Doctors&#39; League">NSDÄB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_German_Students%27_League" title="National Socialist German Students&#39; League">NSDStB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_League_of_the_Reich_for_Physical_Exercise" title="National Socialist League of the Reich for Physical Exercise">NSRL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Flyers_Corps" title="National Socialist Flyers Corps">NSFK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Motor_Corps" title="National Socialist Motor Corps">NSKK</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Women%27s_League" title="National Socialist Women&#39;s League">NSF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany" title="Propaganda in Nazi Germany">Nazi media organizations</a> <ul><li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Nationalsozialistische_Monatshefte" title="Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte">Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte</a></i></span></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neues_Volk" title="Neues Volk">Neues 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Gefolge</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Waffen-SS" title="Waffen-SS">Waffen-SS</a></i></span></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany#History" title="Nazi Germany">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="excerpt-block"><div class="excerpt"> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_timeline_of_Nazism" title="Early timeline of Nazism">Early timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Socialist_Program" title="National Socialist Program">National Socialist Program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power" title="Adolf Hitler&#39;s rise to power">Hitler's rise to power</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_rise_to_power#Seizure_of_control_(1931–1933)" title="Adolf Hitler&#39;s rise to power">Machtergreifung</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Gleichschaltung" title="Gleichschaltung">Gleichschaltung</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_rearmament" title="German rearmament">German rearmament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi Germany</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Kirchenkampf" title="Kirchenkampf">Kirchenkampf</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler%27s_cult_of_personality" title="Adolf Hitler&#39;s cult of personality">Adolf Hitler's cult of personality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933" title="Enabling Act of 1933">Enabling Act of 1933</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives" title="Night of the Long Knives">Night of the Long Knives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_rallies" title="Nuremberg rallies">Nuremberg rallies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws" title="Nuremberg Laws">Nuremberg Laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Comintern_Pact" title="Anti-Comintern Pact">Anti-Comintern Pact</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Kristallnacht" title="Kristallnacht">Kristallnacht</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Anschluss" title="Anschluss">Anschluss</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Holocaust" title="The Holocaust">The Holocaust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1938%E2%80%931939_German_expedition_to_Tibet" title="1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet">1938–1939 German expedition to Tibet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tripartite_Pact" title="Tripartite Pact">Tripartite Pact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denazification" title="Denazification">Denazification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_trials" title="Nuremberg trials">Nuremberg trials</a></li> <p><a href="/wiki/Final_solution" class="mw-redirect" title="Final solution">Final solution</a> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" title="Nazi concentration camps">Concentration camps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deportation" title="Deportation">Deportations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doctors%27_Trial" title="Doctors&#39; Trial">Doctors' Trial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extermination_camp" title="Extermination camp">Extermination camps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genocide" title="Genocide">Genocide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_ghettos" class="mw-redirect" title="Nazi ghettos">Ghettos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation" title="Nazi human experimentation">Human experimentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forced_labour_under_German_rule_during_World_War_II" title="Forced labour under German rule during World War II">Labour camps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pogrom" title="Pogrom">Pogroms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation#Germany" title="Racial segregation">Racial segregation</a></li></ul></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nazism#Ideology_and_programme" title="Nazism">Ideology</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="excerpt-block"><div class="excerpt"> <li><a href="/wiki/Aestheticization_of_politics" title="Aestheticization of politics">Aestheticization of politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fascism_and_ideology#Socialism_and_communism" title="Fascism and ideology">Anti-communism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#Fascism" title="Anti-intellectualism">Anti-intellectualism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fascism_and_ideology#Liberalism" title="Fascism and ideology">Anti-liberalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacifism#Criticism" title="Pacifism">Anti-pacifism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blood_and_soil" title="Blood and soil">Blood and soil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chauvinism" title="Chauvinism">Chauvinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Class_collaboration" title="Class collaboration">Class collaboration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">Conspiracism</a> <ul><li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Dolchsto%C3%9Flegende" class="mw-redirect" title="Dolchstoßlegende">Dolchstoßlegende</a></i></span></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/International_Jewish_conspiracy" title="International Jewish conspiracy">International Jewry</a>"</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Bolshevism" title="Jewish Bolshevism">Judeo-Bolshevism</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corporatism" title="Corporatism">Corporatism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cult_of_personality" title="Cult of personality">Cult of personality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dictatorship" title="Dictatorship">Dictatorship</a> <ul><li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip" title="Führerprinzip">Führerprinzip</a></i></span></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Direct_action" title="Direct action">Direct action</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_interventionism" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic interventionism">Economic interventionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_eugenics" title="Nazi eugenics">Eugenics</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Geopolitik" title="Geopolitik">Geopolitik</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Heimat" title="Heimat">Heimat</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_imperialism" class="mw-redirect" title="German imperialism">Imperialism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greater_Germanic_Reich" title="Greater Germanic Reich">Greater Germanic Reich</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Heim_ins_Reich" title="Heim ins Reich">Heim ins Reich</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Lebensraum" title="Lebensraum">Lebensraum</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pan-Germanism" title="Pan-Germanism">Pan-Germanism</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_militarism" title="German militarism">Militarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_nationalism" title="German nationalism">Nationalism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_nationalism" title="Ethnic nationalism">Ethno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racial_nationalism" title="Racial nationalism">Racial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palingenetic_ultranationalism" title="Palingenetic ultranationalism">Palingenetic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Revolutionary_nationalism" title="Revolutionary nationalism">Revolutionary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultranationalism" title="Ultranationalism">Ultra</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Man_(utopian_concept)#Fascist" title="New Man (utopian concept)">New Man</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Order_(Nazism)" title="New Order (Nazism)">New Order</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/One-party_state" title="One-party state">One-party state</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Populism" title="Populism">Populism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Propaganda_in_Nazi_Germany" title="Propaganda in Nazi Germany">Propaganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prussianism" title="Prussianism">Prussianism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Racial_policy_of_Nazi_Germany" title="Racial policy of Nazi Germany">Racism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">Antisemitism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Slavic_sentiment" title="Anti-Slavic sentiment">Anti-Slavic sentiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aryan_race#Nazism_and_Neo-Nazism" title="Aryan race">Aryan race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aryanism" title="Aryanism">Aryanism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Master_race" title="Master race">Master race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nordicism" title="Nordicism">Nordicism</a></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Rassenschande" title="Rassenschande">Rassenschande</a></i></span></li> <li><span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Untermenschen" class="mw-redirect" title="Untermenschen">Untermenschen</a></i></span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_equality" title="Völkisch equality">Völkisch equality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/V%C3%B6lkisch_movement" title="Völkisch movement">Völkisch movement</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reactionary_modernism" title="Reactionary modernism">Reactionary modernism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Romanticism" title="German Romanticism">Romanticism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Darwinism#Nazism,_eugenics,_fascism,_imperialism" title="Social Darwinism">Social Darwinism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_interventionism" title="Social interventionism">Social interventionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_order" title="Social order">Social order</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/State_capitalism" title="State capitalism">State 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<li><a href="/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Bierbaumer" title="Käthe Bierbaumer">Bierbaumer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Julius_Bloem" title="Walter Julius Bloem">Bloem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Bormann" title="Martin Bormann">Bormann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Daluege" title="Kurt Daluege">Daluege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz" title="Karl Dönitz">Dönitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anton_Drexler" title="Anton Drexler">Drexler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann" title="Adolf Eichmann">Eichmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Esser" title="Hermann Esser">Esser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eugen_Fischer" title="Eugen Fischer">Fischer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hans_Frank" title="Hans Frank">Frank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Frick" title="Wilhelm Frick">Frick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Hess" title="Rudolf Hess">Hess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Heydrich" title="Reinhard Heydrich">Heydrich</a></li> <li><a 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navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="excerpt-block"><div class="excerpt"> <li>Pre-<i>Machtergreifung</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Moritz_Arndt" title="Ernst Moritz Arndt">Arndt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89mile-Louis_Burnouf" title="Émile-Louis Burnouf">Burnouf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houston_Stewart_Chamberlain" title="Houston Stewart Chamberlain">Chamberlain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%89douard_Drumont" title="Édouard Drumont">Drumont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dietrich_Eckart" title="Dietrich Eckart">Eckart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodor_Fritsch" title="Theodor Fritsch">Fritsch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_de_Gobineau" title="Arthur de Gobineau">de Gobineau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison_Grant" title="Madison Grant">Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B6rg_Lanz_von_Liebenfels" title="Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels">von Liebenfels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guido_von_List" title="Guido von List">von List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_L%C3%B6ns#Reception_in_National_Socialist_Germany" title="Hermann Löns">Löns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Lueger" title="Karl Lueger">Lueger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Marr" title="Wilhelm Marr">Marr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Influence_and_reception_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche#Nietzsche_and_fascism" title="Influence and reception of Friedrich Nietzsche">Nietzsche</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Contentious)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Ratzel#Writings" title="Friedrich Ratzel">Ratzel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Heinrich_Riehl" title="Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl">Riehl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ruskin#Politics_and_critique_of_political_economy" title="John Ruskin">Ruskin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Wagner#Views" title="Richard Wagner">Wagner</a></li></ul></li> <ul><li>Post-<i>Machtergreifung</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Anacker" title="Heinrich Anacker">Anacker</a></li> <li><a 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Günther">Günther</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jakob_Wilhelm_Hauer" title="Jakob Wilhelm Hauer">Hauer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Haushofer" title="Karl Haushofer">Haushofer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Heidegger_and_Nazism" title="Martin Heidegger and Nazism">Heidegger</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Contentious)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willibald_Hentschel" title="Willibald Hentschel">Hentschel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hoche" title="Alfred Hoche">Hoche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini#Ties_with_the_Axis_Powers_during_World_War_II" title="Amin al-Husseini">al-Husseini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Jung" title="Rudolf Jung">Jung</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Krannhals" title="Paul Krannhals">Krannhals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Krieck" title="Ernst Krieck">Kriek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh#Antisemitism_and_views_on_race" title="Charles Lindbergh">Lindbergh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludwig_M%C3%BCller" title="Ludwig Müller">Müller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johann_Plenge" title="Johann Plenge">Plenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otto_Rahn" title="Otto Rahn">Rahn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Rosenberg" title="Alfred Rosenberg">Rosenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoun_Saadeh" title="Antoun Saadeh">Saadeh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernst_Sch%C3%A4fer" title="Ernst Schäfer">Schäfer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herman_Schmalenbach" title="Herman Schmalenbach">Schmalenbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Schmitt" title="Carl Schmitt">Schmitt</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(Contentious)</span></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_von_Sebottendorf" title="Rudolf von Sebottendorf">von Sebottendorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermann_Schwarz_(philosopher)" title="Hermann Schwarz (philosopher)">Schwarz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_Stapel" title="Wilhelm Stapel">Stapel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giselher_Wirsing" title="Giselher Wirsing">Wirsing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferdinand_Zimmermann" title="Ferdinand Zimmermann">Zimmermann</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Nazi_war_crimes" title="Category:Nazi war crimes">Atrocities<br /> and war crimes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/Aktion_T4" title="Aktion T4">Action T4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps" title="Nazi concentration camps">Nazi concentration camps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extermination_camp" title="Extermination camp">Extermination camp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Final_Solution" title="Final Solution">Final Solution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation" title="Nazi human experimentation">Human experimentation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romani_genocide" class="mw-redirect" title="Romani genocide">Romani genocide</a></li> 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