Re: question about a symbol on henna pattern
Posted by Cathererine Cartwright Jones on March 17, 2000 at 13:26:36:
In Reply to: Re: question about a symbol on henna pattern posted by atul mulay on March 17, 2000 at 09:25:41:
I went back and double checked old artifacts..... before 1930, it
didn't seem to matter much at all whether the swastika was rotating
clockwise or couterclockwise. There are about an even number of
examples of each sort. However, after 1940, people who used the
swastika in their indigenous art did what they could to distance
themselves from the Nazi symbol ..... and at that point the Nazi
swastika was regarded as being negative, and the opposite positive.
Just digging....found a swastika from 7000 BCE .... and several others
in the same group of artifacts, and both directions were equally
present. The whirling sun wheel was just a good thing then. Positive
and negative, directions, didn't enter into it until people felt
they needed to make a distinction between their use of the symbol and
the Nazi use.
Similarly ..... the cross was an important symbol before Christianity,
and was an important symbol to many other cultures apart from
Christianity. Once it was established, though, the different groups
made an effort to distinguish one sort as "ours" and another sort as
"theirs".
OT ... it's astonishing how many white power twirps can't even get the
thing drawn properly in their own grafitti.
