Thanks for that tip!Try this in google search: "your keywords site:cassiopaea.org/forum/boards/the-cassiopaean-experiment.48/"
As you will notice a question mark at the end of the sentence, the words "I'm assuming" and "contradiction on this abounds" - so yes, speculation and assumption as opposed to hard fact, but let me explain.[..] 卍 representing the new or same spiritual sense of the latter, and 卐 the former?
I'm assuming the directions indicated below are correct - mirror images of each other - contradiction on this abounds:
Source? Pure assumption....
As like most people, my first and for a long time only awareness of swastikas was the Nazi German symbol that now represent the highest level of evil there is. When I learned that the swastika existed long before its use by the Nazis, I was amazed and curious. I got the impression that the Nazi swastika was purposely reversed from the preexisting one that had a positive or spiritual association. Was that true? I did a brief search and came up with what I posted including the pic with labels positive/negative - that was derived from
Is the swastika a positive or negative symbol? | Debate.org
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Well, not exactly a hot topic and it is just opinions, hence, Debate! Here are the other links I accessed:
How the Symbolism of the Swastika Was Ruined | Britannica
The swastika went from being a positive symbol to a negative one.
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As you can see, its directional arms are the same as the Nazi swastika. As the image address indicates, this is a display for Diwali:
And the swastika is a Diwali symbol:Diwali is a festival of lights and one of the major festivals celebrated by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs.
And this one on an angle like the familiar Nazi swastika:
In responding to your post, I just discovered all of the above - learning is fun!
The other links - note the mirror image to the left:
Get the History of the Swastika, the Oldest Known Symbol Used by Nazis
Learn the history of the swastika, the oldest known symbol that spans 3,000 years, its original meaning, and how the Nazis used it.
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The Oldest Known Symbol
The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years (predating even the ancient Egyptian symbol, the ankh). Artifacts such as pottery and coins from ancient Troy show that the swastika was a commonly used symbol as far back as 1000 BCE.
Now I wondered about this one - a true swastika or just decorative use of lines?
This is the only picture connected to the above - doesn't look like a silk drawing to me:The Direction of the Swastika
In ancient times, the direction of the swastika was interchangeable, as can be seen on an ancient Chinese silk drawing.
Some cultures in the past differentiated between the clockwise swastika and the counterclockwise sauvastika. In these cultures, the swastika symbolized health and life, while the sauvastika took on a mystical meaning of bad luck or misfortune.
Italian summer camp forming group backwards swastika. De Agostini / Foto Studio Leoni / Getty Images
And that's where they left it - the end of the article.But since the Nazis' use of the swastika, some people are trying to differentiate the two meanings of the swastika by varying its direction—making the clockwise, Nazi version of the swastika mean hate and death, while the counterclockwise version would hold the ancient meanings of the symbol: life and good luck.
Now I just followed up on sauvastika:
The term sauwastika (or sauvastika) is sometimes used to distinguish the left-facing from the right-facing swastika symbol, a meaning which developed in 19th century scholarship.
The left-facing variant is favoured in Bon and Gurung Dharma; it is called yungdrung in Bon and Gurung Yantra in Gurung Dharma. Both the right-facing and left-facing variants are employed in Hinduism and Buddhism however, the left-facing is more commonly used in Buddhism than Hinduism and the right-facing is more commonly used in Hinduism than Buddhism.
In Buddhism the left-facing sauwastika imprinted on the chest, feet, palms of Buddha and also the first of the 65 auspicious symbols on the footprint of the Buddha. In Hinduism the left-facing sauwastika is associated with esoteric tantric practices and often stands for Goddess Kali.
The last reference:
It appears that the Nazi swastika is always oriented in the same way as the Diwali swastika and so to confer a negative connotation isn't really justified. The pre-Nazi swastikas appear to be in either direction and although mostly a positive connotation, not always. To those who mainly know the Nazi symbol, the reverse is probably viewed as the positive swastika - a false belief as has been shown.