But in some cases you want other options. Choose your system and find if maybe I have an answer for you. Latvia Bans Nazi, Soviet Symbols at Public Events". Haaretz. 20 June 2013 . Retrieved 8 November 2018. Mosaic swastika in excavated Byzantine church in Shavei Tzion (Israel). (Etan J. Tal / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Positive Days of the Swastika Graves, Charles (April 1879). "On the Croix Gammée, or Swastika". The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Royal Irish Academy. 27: 41–46. Read by Graves to the Royal Irish Academy on 13 May 1878. In 2017, the troop department emblem with swastika of the Air Force General Staff was replaced by the emblem of the Air Force has used since 2002. However, the troop department emblem and flag of Finland's Air Force Academy still keeps the swastika symbols. [177]

a b "Svastika – Mūsų protėvių – lietuvių simbolis [Swastika Is the Symbol of Our Ancestors Lithuanians] (in Lithuanian)". sarmatas.lt. 7 February 2010. Swastika shapes have been found on numerous artefacts from Iron Age Europe. [101] [130] [131] [132] [10] The left-handed swastika was a favorite sign of the last Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. She wore a talisman in the form of a swastika, put it everywhere for happiness, including on her suicide letters from Tobolsk, [192] 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. [193] Pant, Mohan; Funo, Shūji (2007). Stupa and Swastika: Historical Urban Planning Principles in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. National University of Singapore Press. p.231 with note 5. ISBN 978-9971-69-372-5.Melissa Cody's Whirling Logs: Don't You Dare Call Them Swastikas". Indian Country Today Media Network. 7 August 2013. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Chessa, Luciano (2012). Luigi Russolo, Futurist: Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult. University of California Press. p.34. ISBN 978-0-520-95156-3– via Google Books. Mohan Pant, Shūji Funo (2007). Stupa and Swastika: Historical Urban Planning Principles in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley. NUS Press. p.16. ISBN 978-9971693725.

At the annual Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg in September 1935, the German government passed new legislation aimed at further disenfranchising Germany’s Jews. Included among the so-called Nuremberg Race Laws was the Reich Flag Law (September 15, 1935) that declared that henceforth the swastika flag would constitute the official national flag of the German Reich. That same day, the government passed the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, which prohibited marriages and sexual relations between citizens of “German or those of kindred blood” and Jews. A further stipulation spelled out that Jews were banned from raising the new German flag (the swastika) and displaying the national colors.

The Appropriation of the Swastika as a Nazi Symbol

Swastika". Britanica. 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). 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 euros. According to judicial practice, display of a non-Nazi swastika is legal. [226] The swastika has a particular association with Diwali, being drawn in rangoli (coloured sand) or formed with deepak lights on the floor outside Hindu houses and on wall hangings and other decorations. [92]

A ugunskrusts ('fire cross') is used by the Baltic neopaganism movements Dievturība in Latvia and Romuva in Lithuania. [273] Slavic Native Faith [ edit ] In Chinese and Japanese art, the swastika is often found as part of a repeating pattern. One common pattern, called sayagata in Japanese, comprises left- and right-facing swastikas joined by lines. [100] As the negative space between the lines has a distinctive shape, the sayagata pattern is sometimes called the key fret motif in English. [ citation needed] Eastern Europe and Caucasus [ edit ] Armenian arevakhachWalther Blachetta: Das Buch der deutschen Sinnzeichen (The book of German sense characters); reprint of 1941; p. 47 Hilda Ellis Davidson theorised [ clarification needed] that the swastika symbol was associated with Thor, possibly representing his Mjolnir–symbolic of thunder–and possibly being connected to the Bronze Age sun cross. [108] Davidson cites "many examples" of the swastika symbol from Anglo-Saxon graves of the pagan period, with particular prominence on cremation urns from the cemeteries of East Anglia. [108] 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 funerary symbol. [108] The runic inscription on the 8th-century Sæbø sword has been taken as evidence of the swastika as a symbol of Thor in Norse paganism.

A variant of the swastika, the non-traditional eight-armed kolovrat ( Russian: коловрат, literally ' spinning wheel'), is the most commonly used religious symbol within neopagan Slavic Native Faith (a.k.a. Rodnovery). [274] [275] The Chinese character wan could be used as a stand-alone《 卐》or《 卍》or as be used as pairs《 卐 卍》in Chinese visual arts, decorative arts, and clothing due to its auspicious connotation. [97] :175 First of all, good day to you, and I wish you a long and happy life and hope you wish the best to everybody too right now. I'll continue assuming that. And I'll assume that you know that some people can get very strongly triggered by a swastika. In a very negative way. In the west it's seen as a symbol of racism, symbol of hate and intolerance. So copy-paste swastika with caution if you mean it as a nazi symbol.The flag of the Guna people (also "Kuna Yala" or "Guna Yala") of Panama. This flag, adopted in 1925, has a swastika symbol that they call Naa Ukuryaa. According to one explanation, this ancestral symbol symbolises the octopus that created the world, its tentacles pointing to the four cardinal points. [265] New religious movements [ edit ]