The buddhist logo has been around for centuries, the swastika less than 100 years...but the atrocities that the Hitler-era Germany has caused in the first half of the 20th Century will scar western civilization for centuries to come....

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The swastika (the symbol and the word) actually predates Buddhism by several centuries.

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Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?

he is right, it is part of hindu symbolism.

i would like the thank the artist for bring this point across with such clarity and class... thank u

Thank you, too, for appreciating my attempt.

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Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?

the Swastika means reborn with the sun and it was used by the romans too.

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Thanks for the information. As far as I know, the symbol developed in several pre-Christian civilizations independently.

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The Oldest Known Symbol

The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years. (That even predates 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.

During the following thousand years, the image of the swastika was used by many cultures around the world, including in China, Japan, India, and southern Europe. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well known, if not commonly used, symbol but was called by many different names:

China - wan
England - fylfot
Germany - Hakenkreuz
Greece - tetraskelion and gammadion
India - swastika

Though it is not known for exactly how long, Native Americans also have long used the symbol of the swastika.

The Original Meaning

The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix.

Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.

Even in the early twentieth century, the swastika was still a symbol with positive connotations. For instance, the swastika was a common decoration that often adorned cigarette cases, postcards, coins, and buildings. During World War I, the swastika could even be found on the shoulder patches of the American 45th Division and on the Finnish air force until after World War II.

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THE RUNES

According to myth, the runes were created by the Norse god Odin (also Woden or Woten), the one-eyed chief of the gods, also the god of wisdom and war. Odin acquired the forbidden and mystical knowledge of the runes by impaling himself by his own spear to Yggdrasil, the World Tree, for nine days and nights.

Runic symbols have been found carved on rocks dating from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, (c. 8000 BC - 2000 BC). Continuing discoveries showed they had been carved by tribes in Northern Italy; they were also present in Sweden, and among the Germanic people.

erhaps two runes were destroyed forever by the Nazis. These are the swastika, originally Mjoelhir, Thor's hammer and the symbol of the Earth Mother and the sun; and the sig or S rune, the trademark of Heinrich Himmler's "Schutzstaffel," or the SS. The Norse neo-Pagans tried to bring back the Swastika as a runic symbol without much success.

The ancient usage of the swastika not only as a symbol by Indo-European cultures dates back perhaps prior to 700 BC in Greece where it was painted on amphoreis and various ceramic artifacts, and even graves. Also it exists in many other cultures such as the Chinese and Native Americans.

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Thanks.

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Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?

The NationalSocialists didn't use it for the sake of using a nice powerful symbol, they did it because of it's true meaning.
Romans and Greeks used it, both leafs of the aryan tree, they founded it in the east, in China, aryans were there too, the german peoples of the north, they used it too, and the Celts in the heart of Europe.
They all (aryan folks) used the swastika and other sun symbols to simbolize the never ending dynamic of life and nature, the sun god, the wheel of time.

All those cultures (created by the same people, aryans) believe in the negative sign of times, the theory that as time goes by the civilizations born, developed themselves, become rich and powerful (in all senses) and after a period of decadence they die.

That theory was in the heart of NationalSocialists too, as they investigated the cultures of ancient aryan people of Europe.
So the swastika IS a RACE symbol because wherever it has been found was somewhere in time a place where aryans put their feet and conquered.

Buddhists were so passive because they knew the sign of time, there's nothing you can do against decadence.
NationalSocialists thought they were fighting against what tthey thought were signs of decadence (modern world, capitalism, bolchevism,etc.).

The meaning is exactly the same.