The Swastika was ripped off and inverted from an ancient Indian symbol of peace. But... if memory serves, I think the symbolism took a bit of a beating when it stood as a Leftist standard over the death of 10s of millions of innocent people.
Never heard of that, but there was a guy named Hitler that used it. His thugs turned it to point to the right though.
American Indians refer to it as the whirling log and was a symbol of peace. In Sanskrit it means "well being", and was associated with order and stability, and is at least 2,600 years old.
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Thank you. I've seen dozen examples of this figure on Native American artifacts from just about every tribe.
If you really want to screw with people like Pogo, this was the shoulder patch for the US Army 45th Infantry Division prior to 1940.
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45th Infantry Division (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I don't follow. Two things it should be obvious by now that I appreciate are anthropology and finding out the true sources of things.
These may have been posted before too... ?
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So is this by the way --
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