27 Facts About Swastika

Swastika is an ancient religious and cultural symbol, predominantly in various Eurasian, as well as some African and American cultures, now widely recognized for its appropriation by the Nazi Party and by neo-Nazis.

Swastika is included in the Unicode character sets of two languages.

Swastika argues that this symbol was later attested as the four-horse chariot of Mithra in ancient Iranian culture.

Swastika suggests that this notion later flourished in Roman Mithraism, as the symbol appears in Mithraic iconography and astronomical representations.

Swastika has a particular association with Diwali, being drawn in rangoli or formed with deepak lights on the floor outside Hindu houses and on wall hangings and other decorations.

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Swastika symbol is common in esoteric tantric traditions of Buddhism, along with Hinduism, where it is found with chakra theories and other meditative aids.

Swastika is an auspicious symbol in China where it was introduced from India with Buddhism.

Swastika shape appears on various Germanic Migration Period and Viking Age artifacts, such as the 3rd-century Værløse Fibula from Zealand, Denmark, the Gothic spearhead from Brest-Litovsk, today in Belarus, the 9th-century Snoldelev Stone from Ramsø, Denmark, and numerous Migration Period bracteates drawn left-facing or right-facing.

Swastika is an ancient Baltic thunder cross symbol, used to decorate objects, traditional clothing and in archaeological excavations.

Swastika shapes have been found on numerous artefacts from Iron Age Europe.

Swastika was a heraldic symbol, for example on the Boreyko coat of arms, used by noblemen in Poland and Ukraine.

Swastika composed of Hebrew letters as a mystical symbol from the Jewish Kabbalistic work "Parashat Eliezer", from the 18th century or earlier.

In Ethiopia the Swastika is carved in the window of the famous 12th-century Biete Maryam, one of the Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela.

Swastika is a Navajo symbol for good luck, translated to "whirling log".

Swastika connected it with similar shapes found on ancient pots in Germany, and theorised that the swastika was a "significant religious symbol of our remote ancestors", linking it to ancient Teutons, Greeks of the time of Homer and Indians of the Vedic era.

Swastika Laundry was a laundry founded in 1912, located on Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, a district of Dublin, Ireland.

Swastika was used by the women's paramilitary organisation Lotta Svard, which was banned in 1944 in accordance with the Moscow Armistice between Finland and the allied Soviet Union and Britain.

Swastika symbol is a traditional Baltic ornament, found on relics dating from at least the 13th century.

Swastika's wore a talisman in the form of a swastika, put it everywhere for happiness, including on her suicide letters from Tobolsk, later drew with a pencil on the wall and in the window opening of the room in the Ipatiev House, which served as the place of the last imprisonment of the royal family and on the wallpaper above the bed.

Swastika motif is found in some traditional Native American art and iconography.

Swastika shape is a symbol in the culture of the Guna people of Guna Yala, Panama.

Swastika was widely used in Europe at the start of the 20th century.

Swastika was understood as "the symbol of the creating, effecting life" and as "race emblem of Germanism".

Swastika's 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.

The Red Swastika Society, formed in China in 1922 as the philanthropic branch of Guiyidao, became the largest supplier of emergency relief in China during World War II, in the same manner as the Red Cross in the rest of the world.

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The Red Swastika Society abandoned mainland China in 1954, settling first in Hong Kong then in Taiwan.

Swastika is a holy symbol in neopagan Germanic Heathenry, along with the hammer of Thor and runes.