What does the symbol of the cross of the Nazis mean. The real origin of the swastika

It so happened that in the small, relatively secluded town of Rewalsar in the Himalayas, we arrived quite late, so late that it was hard for small, sleepy and lazy provincial hotels to bother with our settlement. The hosts of the hotels shrugged their shoulders, shook their heads and waving their hands somewhere in the direction of the night slammed the doors in front of our noses. But we were willingly, though not free of charge, accepted to live in a guest house on the territory of a Tibetan Buddhist monastery on the lake.

As is often the case in Tibetan places, our meeting and accommodation was handled by a Hindu, since it is unsuitable for Tibetan monks to deal with money and worldly matters. In addition, the monastery had been immersed in night darkness for more than an hour, and the monks should have had enough sleep, so that tomorrow early in the morning they should go to meditation with a cheerful and pious face. The Indian who gave us the keys to the hotel room told about this and other sorrows of the world, and in order to somehow console himself, he strongly recommended that we visit this event at seven in the morning.

The main topics are below: buses and trains, flights and visas, health and hygiene, safety, route selection, hotels, food, necessary budget. The relevance of this text is spring 2017.

Hotels

"Where will I live there?" - this question is for some reason very strong, just terribly annoying for those who have not yet traveled in India. There is no such problem. Hotels there are a dime a dozen. The main thing is to choose. Next, we are talking about inexpensive, budget hotels.

In my experience, there are three main ways to find a hotel.

Spiral

You will usually arrive at new town by bus or train. So around them there is almost always a great mass of hotels. Therefore, it is enough to move a little away from the place of arrival and start walking in a circle with an increasing radius to come across a lot of hotels. inscriptions "Hotel" designates a place where you can have a bite to eat in a large area of ​​India, so signboards are the main landmarks "guest house" and Lounge.

In areas of mass idleness (Goa, the resorts of Kerala, the Himalayas), private sector, well, like we have on the Black Sea coast. There you can ask about housing from the local population and focus on the signs " Rent". In Buddhist places you can live in monasteries, in Hindu places in ashrams.

The farther you go from the bus station or railway station, the lower the prices, but hotels are becoming less and less common. So you look at several hotels of reasonable price and quality and return to the chosen one.

If you are traveling in a group, then you can send one or two people light in search of a hotel, while the rest are waiting at the station with things.

If the hotel is refused and they say that the hotel is only for Indians, then insisting on settling is practically useless.

Ask a taxi driver

For those who have a lot of luggage or are just too lazy to look. Or you want to settle near the sights, for example, at the Taj Mahal, and not at the station. Even in large cities there are places of traditional congestion of tourists: in Delhi it is Main Bazaar, in Calcutta it is Sader Street, in Bombay it is also called something, but I forgot, that is, in any case, you need to go there.

In this case, find a rickshaw or taxi driver and set the task of where you want to live, in what conditions and for what kind of money. In this case, you can sometimes be taken to the desired hotel for free, even show you several places to choose from. It is clear that the price immediately increases, it is pointless to bargain, since the taxi driver's commission is already included in the price. But sometimes, when you are too lazy or in the middle of the night, it is very convenient to use this method.

Book online

This is for those who like certainty and assurance, more comfort and less adventure.

Well, if you book in advance, then book hotels of better quality and not too cheap (at least $ 30-40 per room), because otherwise there is no guarantee that in reality everything will be as beautiful as in the photographs. They also complained to me that sometimes they came to a booked hotel, and the rooms, despite the reservation, were already occupied. The owners of the hotel were not embarrassed, they said that a client came with money, and there was not enough willpower to refuse the client with cash. The money was returned, of course, but it's still a shame.

Finding, checking in and staying in inexpensive Indian hotels can be an adventure in itself, a source of fun and sometimes not so fun memories. But then there will be something to tell at home.

Settlement technology

• Get rid of the presence of "Hindu helpers" and barkers, their presence automatically increases the cost of settling.
• Go to a hotel that seems worthy of you and ask how much it costs and decide whether it is worth living there, at the same time you have time to appreciate the interior and helpfulness.
• Be sure to ask to show the room before checking in, show dissatisfaction and indignation with all your appearance, ask to see another room, most likely it will be better. You can do this several times, achieving everything better conditions accommodation.

Those who are interested in the energy of Osho and Buddha, meditation and India, we invite you all to travel to the places where the greatest mystic of the 20th century Osho was born, lived the first years of his life and gained enlightenment! In one trip, we will combine the exotic of India, meditation, absorb the energy of Osho's places!
The tour plan also includes a visit to Varanasi, Bodhgaya and possibly Khajuraho (subject to availability of tickets)

Key Travel Locations

Kuchvada

A small village in central India, where Osho was born and lived for the first seven years, surrounded and cared for by his loving grandparents. There is still a house in Kuchvad, which has remained exactly the same as it was during Osho's lifetime. Also near the house is a pond, on the banks of which Osho liked to sit for hours and watch the endless movement of the reeds in the wind, funny Games and the flights of herons over the surface of the water. You can visit Osho's house, spend time on the banks of a pond, stroll through the village, absorb that serene spirit of rural India, which undoubtedly had an initial influence on the formation of Osho.

In Kuchvada there is a fairly large and comfortable ashram under the patronage of sannyasins from Japan, where we will live and meditate.

A small video "emotional impression" from visiting Kuchvada and Osho's house.

Gadarwara

At the age of 7, Osho, together with his grandmother, moved to his parents in the small town of Gadarwara, where he school years. By the way, the school class where Osho studied still exists, and there is even a desk where Osho sat. You can go to this class, sit at a desk, where our beloved master spent so much time in his childhood. Unfortunately, getting into this class is a matter of chance and luck, depending on which teacher conducts classes in the class. But in any case, you can walk along the streets of Gadarvara, visit the initial and high school, the house where Osho lived, Osho's beloved river...

And most importantly, on the outskirts of the city there is a quiet, small and cozy ashram, where there is a place where, at the age of 14, Osho experienced a deep experience of death.

Video from Osho Ashram in Gadarwar

Jabalpur

Large city with over a million inhabitants. In Jabalpur, Osho studied at the university, then worked as a teacher and became a professor, but the main thing is that at the age of 21 he gained enlightenment, which happened to him in one of the parks of Jabalpur, and the tree under which this happened is still growing on old place.

In Jabalpur we will live in a quiet and comfortable ashram with a magnificent park.

From the ashram it is easy to get to the Marble Rocks - a natural wonder where Osho liked to spend time during his stay in Jabalpur.

Varanasi

Varanasi is famous for its cremation fires, which burn day and night. But it also has a surprisingly pleasant promenade, the famous Kashi Vishwanath temple, boat rides on the Ganges. Near Varanasi is the small village of Sarnath, famous for that there the Buddha read his first sermon, and the first listeners were ordinary deer.

Bodhgaya

The place of Buddha's enlightenment. In the main temple of the city, which is surrounded by a beautiful and extensive park, a tree still grows in the shade of which the Buddha gained enlightenment.

In addition, Bodhgaya has a wide variety of Buddhist temples erected by followers of the Buddha from many countries: China, Japan, Tibet, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma ... Each temple has its own unique architecture, decoration, and ceremonies.

Khajuraho

Khajuraho itself is not directly related to Osho, except that Osho often mentioned the tantric temples of Khajuraho, and his grandmother was directly related to Khajuraho.

around it ancient symbol a lot of legends and conjectures have accumulated, so it may be interesting for someone to read about this ancient solar cult symbol.


In fact, I, who grew up in the USSR, had a biased attitude towards the swastika, as fascist sign. But is it really so? The swastika is one of the most archaic sacred symbols found in many peoples of the world. Swastika symbols denoted calendar signs back in the days of the Scythian kingdom.

Many people are currently Swastika associated with fascism and Hitler. This has been hammered into people's heads for the last 70 years. It's time to fix the situation.
AT modern schools, and in the lyceums and gymnasiums of modern Russia, children are voiced by a rather delusional hypothesis that the Swastika is a German fascist cross, made up of four letters "G", denoting the first letters of leaders Nazi Germany: Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels (sometimes replaced by Hess). Well, variations on this theme, Germany Hitler Goebbels Himmler. At the same time, few children think about the fact that in German surnames: HITLER, HIMMLER, GERING, GEBELS (HESS), there are no Russian letters "G". I don’t know what they pass off as truth in Western schools, but I’m more than sure that the swastika is primarily a fascist symbol there.Unfortunately, the true meaning of this runic symbol over the past 70 years has been erased by this stereotype. At the same time, from time immemorial, the swastika has been an integral part of the Slavic ornament.

Moreover, not wanting to look into the depths of centuries, you can find more intelligible examples. Not many people remember that the Swastika was depicted on Soviet money in the period from 1917 to 1923 as legalized state symbols; not immediately noticeable, but the fact itself. She is in the center.

As you can see already Soviet authority, 18 years old

No doubt, before the stars, she was no less popular.

And not only on Russian money it was. Here are the Lithuanian five litas.

They also forgot that on the sleeve patches of soldiers and officers of the Red Army in the same period there was also a Swastika in laurel wreath, and inside the Swastika were the letters R.S.F.S.R. And how to remember when almost 100 years have passed since then. That is, we must not remember, but know.

There is such a hypothesis that Comrade I.V. Stalin himself presented the Golden Swastika-Kolovrat as a party symbol to Adolf Hitler in 1920. But it may already be invented, I'm not sure.

Well, for balance, American troops are 30 years old. 45th Infantry Division.

And the famous flight division Lafayette.



And there were also Finnish, Polish and Latvian stripes with a swastika. If you are interested, you can independently find them all on the Internet.

A thoughtful and not stupid person will always distinguish the swastika painted on the grave of a veteran from the swastika in an ethnic ornament.

The antics of neo-fascists and just bastards who draw black crosses on the tombstones of the Old Jewish Cemetery in Riga cannot be attributed to ethnic rituals. And yet, with all my uncompromising attitude towards fascism and the results of the war and a fairly biased attitude towards the swastika, I decided to dig for information on this topic. But since we have touched on the most famous interpretation of this symbol today, let's talk about fascism itself.
The term Fascism comes from the Latin "fascio" bunch, bunch. In Russian, a similar word is fascina - a bunch of branches, rods. Fascine symbolizes something strong, reliable created from the weak, fragile. Remember the parable of the fingers, which are each weak in themselves, and being clenched into a fist represents strength. Or a historical example, when it is easy to break every arrow, but it is impossible to do it with a whole bunch.

"The Roman soldiers of Julius Caesar, who conquered Egypt, began to call themselves the first fascists. (In many respects, their methods were quite fascist in the modern sense) In the image of the Medjaevs, the Romans believed that they were bringing order and law to the barbarian country. The symbol of the emperor's power was considered a military an ax overlaid with a bunch of rods and intertwined with ribbons, which was called fascina. The symbolism is that around a strong power (axe), through small restrictions (ribbon), peoples (rods) will grow stronger." (c) But let's get back to the swastika sign, the runic solar symbol.

We will return to the symbolism of the Third Reich towards the end of the publication. In the meantime, let's consider the swastika without shudder and prejudice. Let's try to get rid of the contemptuous look at this ancient symbol of eternal rotation.

I decided to distance myself from the presentation of this topic by the New Russian preachers. It is impossible to deny the fact that the ancient Slavic traditions used the solar sign of the swastika, but their approach is very obsessive. In order not to slide into the opposite direction of delusions, let's look at the swastika a little wider.

Considering that not everyone can handle long texts, I decided to show the collected examples in order to rehabilitate the sign itself. Just let's pay attention to all the variety of swastikas in cultures different peoples. To understand the essence of this should be enough.

Let's start with the universe. Find the Big Dipper, and to the left of it you will see a constellation in the form of a Swastika. I don’t know if this is true, but now it is excluded from their atlases starry sky. That's what the articles say. Didn't check it myself, it's not that important.


Doesn't it look like a spiral galaxy?
And here are the runic symbols of the ancestors. There are also many examples of them, and options for interpretation.

And India, where the swastika is very common.

Even among the jungle you can find a swastika.

What do you think is in the picture? This is a fragment of the attire of an Orthodox priest of the highest church rank.

Do you still believe that the Nazis invented the swastika?

Do you recognize anyone in this picture? Russian Emperor hurry to his car.

But you are not looking at the king, but at the hood of the car. Found? The appearance of the swastika at the court of the last Russian tsar is associated with the name of his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna. Perhaps the influence of the doctor Pyotr Badmaev on the empress was manifested here. A Buryat by origin, a lamaist, Badmaev preached Tibetan medicine and maintained ties with Tibet. There are known images of the gamma cross on the drawn postcards of the Empress.

"The left-handed swastika had a special meaning in the royal family and was used as a talisman and as a symbolic reflection of the tsar's personality. Before the execution, the former empress drew a swastika on the wall of the Ipatiev house and wrote something. The image and the inscription were photographed and then destroyed. The owner of this photo was the leader of the white movement in exile, General Alexander Kutepov. In addition, Kutepov kept an icon found on the body of the former empress. Inside the icon was a note in which the Green Dragon Society was commemorated. Grigory Rasputin received strange telegrams signed "Green" from Sweden. Society " The Greens, akin to the Thule Society, is located in Tibet. Before Hitler came to power, a Tibetan lama lived in Berlin, nicknamed the “man in green gloves.” Hitler regularly visited him. The lama told the newspapers three times without error how many Nazis would take part in the elections to the Reichstag. Initiates called the lama “the holder of the keys to the kingdom of Agharti.” In 1926 in Berlin and Munich, according to are still small colonies of Tibetans and Hindus. When the Nazis gained access to the finances of the Reich, they began to send large expeditions to Tibet, this live connection did not stop until 1943. On the day when Soviet troops finished the battle for Berlin, among the corpses of the last defenders of Nazism, about a thousand bodies of death volunteers, people of Tibetan blood, were found. (c)

In July 1918, immediately after the execution royal family, the troops of the white army occupied Yekaterinburg. First of all, the officers hurried to the Ipatiev House - last resort August persons. There, among other things, they saw signs familiar from icons - crosses with curved ends. It was a left-handed, so-called collective swastika - "amulet". As it turned out later, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna painted it.

It is for these signs that the ignorant London reviewers of the film about the Romanovs will later dub it the "fascist Brunnhilde", unaware of the ancient Christian Indian traditions - to leave the swastika where the attributes of any holiday are removed after its completion, so that evil does not penetrate here. The Empress consecrated the house with a "charm", anticipating the end of the holiday of life ... (c)

And this photo shows Jackie Bouvier, the future Jackie Kennedy, in festive costume associated with culture American Indians.

The geography is expanding.
In India, the Swastika is a symbol of esoteric Buddhism. According to legend, it was imprinted on the heart of the Buddha, for which it received the name "Seal of the Heart."

Let's look at the history of the spread of the swastika.
"" Together with one and the branches of the Indo-European tribes, who moved from the southern regions of the Russian Plain in a southeast direction and reached through Mesopotamia and Central Asia to the Indus Valley, the swastika came into culture Eastern peoples.
It was common on the painted dishes of ancient Susiana (Mesopotamian Elam on the eastern coast of the Persian Gulf - III millennium BC) - on bowls, where it was placed in the very center of the composition. This is perhaps a typical example when the swastika was used by the most ancient non-Indo-European people. The signs were symmetrically located relative to a rectangle crossed out by an oblique cross denoting the land.
Somewhat later, the Semitic peoples began to use the swastika: the ancient Egyptians and the Chaldeans, whose state was located on the western shore of the Persian Gulf.

If desired, you can even find a combination of a swastika and a six-pointed star of Magendovid in the ornament.

With the same wave of Indo-Europeans in the middle of the second millennium BC. The swastika entered the culture of North India. There it successfully existed until our time, but acquired a mystical meaning.

In the most general interpretation, the swastika is considered by the Indians a symbol of movement and the eternal rotation of the world - the "cycle of samsara." This symbol was allegedly imprinted on the heart of the Buddha and is therefore sometimes called the "Seal of the Heart". It is placed on the chest of those initiated into the mysteries of Buddhism after their death. It is carved on every rock, temple, and everywhere where the founders of Buddhism left their milestones.

Later, the swastika penetrates into Tibet, then into Central Asia and China. A century later, the swastika comes to Japan and Southeast Asia along with Buddhism, which made it its symbol.

Together with Buddhism from India, the swastika entered Tibet and Japan. In Japan, the swastika symbol is called Manji. The image of the manji can be seen on the flags, armor and family crests of the samurai.

Along with North America and the east of Eurasia is marked solar sign and a Japanese man wearing a manji-decorated helmet.

18th century Japanese engraving

Japanese roof

Here is the facade of a building in Kathmandu decorated with a swastika.

Here is the Buddha himself.

At this point, it was already possible to put a point. For a general understanding that there is nothing wrong with the swastika itself, these examples are already enough. But we'll see a few more. The East generally more carefully preserves its history and observes traditions. Pagoda tower with golden swastika, solar symbol.

Another Buddha
Is this not an example of the fact that the solar Kolovrat is not just an ornament of an ornamental nature, but a sacred symbol, having a deep sacred meaning. That is why we can see it on the Buddhist mandala.

And on the sacred stupa

Modern Nepal

Kolovrat-swastika is still imprinted on mammoth tusks. Under the golden Kolovrat, on a scarlet banner, the legendary Prince Svyatoslav went to Constantinople, beat the Khazars. This radiant symbol was used by pagan magi (priests) in rituals associated with the ancient Slavic Vedic Faith, and is still embroidered by Vyatka, Kostroma,
Vologda needlewomen.

In early Christianity, the swastika was known as a gammed cross, until the end of the Middle Ages it was one of the emblems of Christ, it could often be found on Orthodox icons. For example, a swastika on a headdress Mother of God icon called "Reigning". Remember the ornament on the festive attire of an Orthodox priest above? From there.

According to legend, Genghis Khan wore a ring with a swastika on his right hand, into which a magnificent ruby ​​\u200b\u200bwas set - a sun stone. In the oldest synagogue in Israel, the Swastika is depicted on the floor, although it is believed that the Jews are almost the only tribe that does not consider the swastika a sacred symbol.

Once again, the Swastika became popular in European culture in the 19th century. It has been widely used in ornamentation as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. There was even an interpretation that the Swastika symbol must be understood as an abbreviation of four words starting with latin letter"L": Light - Light, Sun; Love - Love; Life - Life; Luck - Fate, Luck, Happiness. This is already her modern interpretation, without signs of a pagan cult.

And here is a very old "fossil" example of a swastika.

Currently, the swastika is depicted on the presidential standard of Finland.

And it can be found on the map of modern America...

Disputes about the origin of the swastika have not subsided for many years. Its fragments have been found on almost all continents in the cultures of Hinduism, Lamaism, and Christianity. Today it is believed that this sign originates from ancient religion Aryans - Indo-Europeans. Its first images on Aryan altars and burials of Harappan seals and weapons, Samarian bowls date back to the 30th century BC. Excavated in the Urals, the same age as the pyramids of Egypt, having a street layout in the form of a round swastika mandala with an altar in the center.

What did the swastika mean? This is the Aryan symbol of the unity of the heavenly forces of fire and wind with the altar - the place where these heavenly forces merge with the earthly ones. Therefore, the altars of the Aryans were decorated with a swastika and revered as saints, protected from evil. The name "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit term "suasti" - "prosperity under the Sun", and the swastika mandala - from the concept of "wheel", "disk", or "circle of eternity", divided into sectors. In China and Japan, the hieroglyphs of the swastika mean wishes for longevity under the Sun.

In the middle of the 20th century, the swastika became one of the main instruments in the confrontation of civilizations. And this was reflected not only in the massive use of the symbol as a "marker" of certain forces, but also in the active esoteric-mystical technology of application. This aspect was dealt with by special communities of the 3rd Reich, primarily the Ahnenerbe. The swastika was used as a universal tool for contact and remote mental coding of individuals and groups, volitional projection onto a geographical region, formation of events (future given type), etc. Not all manipulations with the swastika gave the expected effect, however, the degree of effectiveness and the nature of the use are not well-known information. This side of the 2nd World War still keeps its secrets.
In general, there are a lot of swastikas.

But how did the swastika become the personification of fascism?

Created in 1921 according to the sketches of Adolf Hitler, the party symbols and the flag of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers' Party) subsequently became the state symbols of Germany (1933-1945). It is possible that Hitler, when choosing a swastika as an emblem, was guided by the theory of the German geopolitician Karl Haushofer, who believed that the swastika is a symbol of thunder, fire and fertility among the ancient Aryan magicians.

It is Haushofer who owns the expression: “Space as a force factor”, which Hitler borrowed from him. In the view of Hitler himself, the swastika symbolized "the struggle for the triumph of Aryan race". By this time, the Austrian anti-Semitic organizations were already actively using the Swastika.

At the same time, the Nazi salute "Sieg" was adopted. “Ziga” (“sieg” - victory) is a gesture of greeting the Sun: from the heart to the Sun of the dear right hand, while the palm of the left hand lies on the inside of the stomach, forming a zig rune. After 1933, the swastika finally began to be perceived as Nazi symbol, as a result, was excluded from the emblems of the scouting movement. Kipling removed the swastika from the covers of his books.

"AT modern world, as before, special tools - graphic symbols - are widely used to purposefully influence the feelings, thoughts and desires of people. The history of the use of symbols is as deep as the history of Homo sapiens. And in this story, a special place is occupied by the idea of ​​searching for a certain universal key, a magic sign, having mastered which it becomes possible to control not only a person, but also entire nations. How realistic is this idea?
The answer is related to the answer to another question: what does the world we live in consist of? For thousands of years they have been asked prominent thinkers and remains relevant in today's world. In the era of antiquity, the idea of ​​only a few fundamental principles hiding behind the variety of objects and phenomena was popular - the elements: fire, water, earth, air, and the quintessence of these elements - ether. According to ancient teachings, all known objects and phenomena are formed from these substances, and the system-forming process is the interaction of the world of ideas and the world of elements. The world of ideas in this case is like "grand software" for the universe. Such an interpretation of the structure of the world allows the materialization of ideas into some monads by means of a special substance - the substance of pure information - capable of modifying any object in the material world. Maybe this is how one should understand the meaning of the mysterious " philosopher's stone».
In this case, we define information as one of the primary principles, a kind of element. What are the elements of the world of ideas reflected in the form of substance? How will the human mind perceive them? Apparently, in the form of symbols and signs. Probably, the inner mental space of a person can be represented in the form of living symbols combined into texts. Having at its core one nature - a single world of ideas in the Universe, people, regardless of race, era, linguistic culture, habitat, have the same primary symbolic constructions in their mental structure. This point of view allows us to understand why, throughout the known history of human civilization, there are similar and even completely identical symbols used in almost all regions of the planet among various peoples.

And if you're interested in the swastika museum

VIDEO And finally, a photo of a friend. Swastika in Singapore.

(With) The publication used material from a dozen articles and publications.

The swastika is the oldest and most widely used graphic symbol in the world. The cross with the ends turned down adorned the facades of houses, coats of arms, weapons, jewelry, money and household items. The first mention of the swastika dates back to the eighth millennium BC.

This sign has a lot of meanings. Ancient peoples considered it a symbol of happiness, love, sun and life. Everything changed in the 20th century, when the swastika became a symbol of Hitler's rule and Nazism. Since then, people have forgotten about primitive meaning, but they only know what Hitler's swastika means.

The swastika as an emblem of the fascist and Nazi movement

Even before the Nazis entered the political arena in Germany, the swastika was used by paramilitary organizations as a symbol of nationalism. This sign was mainly worn by the fighters of the G. Erhardt detachment.

Hitler, as he himself wrote in a book called "My Struggle", claimed to have embedded in the swastika a symbol of the superiority of the Aryan race. Already in 1923, at a Nazi congress, Hitler convinced his brethren that the black swastika on a white and red background symbolizes the fight against Jews and communists. Everyone began to gradually forget its true meaning, and starting from 1933, people associated the swastika exclusively with Nazism.

It is worth considering that not every swastika is the personification of Nazism. The lines should intersect at an angle of 90 degrees, and the edges should be broken to the right. The cross must be in the background white circle surrounded by a red background.

After the end of World War II, in 1946, the Nuremberg Tribunal equated the distribution of the swastika with a criminal offense. The swastika has become banned, this is indicated in paragraph 86a of the German penal code.

As for the attitude of the Russians to the swastika, Roskomnadzor canceled the punishment for its distribution without propaganda purposes only on April 15, 2015. Now you know what Hitler's swastika means.

A variety of scholars put forward hypotheses related to the fact that the swastika denotes flowing water, female, fire, air, moon and worship of the gods. Also, this sign acted as a symbol of the fruitful land.

Left-handed or right-handed swastika?

Some scientists believe that there is no difference in which direction the bends of the cross are directed, but there are also experts who have a different point of view. You can determine the direction of the swastika both at the edges and at the corners. And if two crosses are drawn side by side, the ends of which are directed to different sides, it can be argued that this "set" represents a man and a woman.

If we talk about Slavic culture, then one swastika denotes movement towards the sun, and the other against it. In the first case, happiness is meant, in the second, unhappiness.

On the territory of Russia, the swastika was repeatedly found in various designs (three, four and eight beams). It is assumed that this symbolism belongs to the Indo-Iranian tribes. A similar swastika was also found on the territory of such modern countries as Dagestan, Georgia, Chechnya ... In Chechnya, the swastika flaunts on many historical monuments, at the entrance to the crypts. There she was considered a symbol of the Sun.

An interesting fact is that the swastika that we are used to seeing was a favorite symbol of Empress Catherine. She painted him everywhere she lived.

When the revolution began, the swastika became popular among artists, but the People's Commissar quickly expelled it, since this symbolism had already become a symbol of the fascist movement, which had just begun to exist.

The difference between the fascist and Slavic swastikas

The most significant difference between the Slavic swastika and the German one is the direction of its rotation. For the Nazis, it goes clockwise, and for the Slavs, it goes against it. In fact, this is not all the differences.

The Aryan swastika differs from the Slavic in the thickness of the lines and in the background. The number of ends of the Slavic cross can be four or eight.

It is very difficult to name the exact time of the appearance of the Slavic swastika, but it was first discovered at the sites of the settlement of the ancient Scythians. The marks on the walls date back to the fourth millennium BC. The swastika had a different design, but similar outlines. In most cases, it meant the following:

1. Worship of the gods.
2. Self-development.
3. Unity.
4. Home comfort.
5. Wisdom.
6. Fire.

From this we can conclude that the Slavic swastika meant highly spiritual, noble and positive things.

The German swastika appeared in the early 1920s. It denotes completely opposite things, compared with the Slavic. The German swastika, according to one theory, marks the purity of Aryan blood, because Hitler himself said that this symbolism is dedicated to the victory of the Aryans over all other races.

The Nazi swastika flaunted on captured buildings, uniforms and belt buckles, the flag of the Third Reich.

Summarizing, it can be concluded that fascist swastika made people forget that it also has positive interpretation. All over the world, it is associated precisely with the Nazis, but not with the sun, ancient gods and wisdom ... Museums that have ancient tools, vases and other antiques decorated with a swastika in their collections are forced to remove them from expositions, because people do not understand the meaning of this symbol. And this, in fact, is very sad ... Nobody remembers that once the swastika was a symbol of the humane, bright and beautiful. For unknowing people who hear the word "swastika", the image of Hitler immediately pops up, pictures of the war and terrible concentration camps. Now you know what the sign of Hitler means in ancient symbolism.

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urban legend Soviet pioneers said that the swastika is the four letters G assembled in a circle: Hitler, Goebbels, Goering, Himmler. The children did not think that the German Gs are actually different letters - H and G. Although the number of leading Nazis on G really rolled over - you can also remember Groe, and Hess, and many others. But it's better not to remember.

The German Nazis used this sign even before Hitler came to power. And why they showed such interest in the swastika is not at all surprising: for them it was an object of mystical power, originally from India, from the original Aryan territories. Well, it also looked beautiful, and the leaders of the National Socialist movement always attached great importance to aesthetics.

A statue Indian elephant with a swastika on the territory of the old Carlsberg brewery in Copenhagen. The statue has nothing to do with Nazism: pay attention to the dots near the center

If we consider the swastika not as part of patterns and drawings, but as an independent object, then its first appearance dates back to about the 6th-5th centuries BC. It can be seen on objects found at excavations in the Middle East. Why is it customary to call India the birthplace of the swastika? Because the word "swastika" itself is taken from Sanskrit (literary ancient Indian language), means "well-being", and purely graphically (according to the most common theory) symbolizes the Sun. Four-pointedness is far from obligatory for her, there is also a wide variety of angles of rotation, inclination of the rays and additional patterns. In the classical Hindu form, she is usually depicted as in the figure below.

There are many interpretations of which way the swastika should rotate. Even their division into female and male is discussed, depending on the direction

Due to the high popularity of the Sun among people of all races, it logically happened that the swastika is an element of symbolism, writing and graphics among hundreds and hundreds of ancient peoples scattered all over the planet. Even in Christianity, she found her place, and there is an opinion that the Christian cross is her direct descendant. Family traits are really easy to see. In our dear Orthodoxy, swastika-like elements were called "gamma cross" and were often used in the design of temples. True, it is not so easy to find their traces in Russia now, since after the start of the Great Patriotic War, even harmless Orthodox swastikas were liquidated.

Orthodox gamma cross

The swastika is such a widespread object of world culture and religion that it is rather surprising that it rarely appears in the modern world. Logically, it should follow us everywhere. The answer is really simple: after the collapse of the Third Reich, she began to cause such unpleasant associations that they got rid of her with unprecedented zeal. This is amusingly reminiscent of the story of the name Adolf, which was extremely popular in Germany at all times, but almost disappeared from use after 1945.

Craftsmen have adapted to find the swastika in the most unexpected places. With the advent of open access space images of the Earth, the search for natural and architectural incidents has become a kind of sport. The most popular object for conspiracy theorists and swastikophiles is the naval base building in San Diego, California, designed in 1967.

The US Navy spent 600 thousand dollars to somehow rid this building of the resemblance to the swastika, but the final result is disappointing

The Russian Internet and some railway station trays are crammed with all sorts of interpreters of Slavic pagan swastikas, where it is meticulously explained in pictures what “yarovrat”, “svitovit” or “salting” means. Sounds and looks exciting, but keep in mind that there is no scientific basis for these myths at all. Even the term "Kolovrat", which has come into use, supposedly Slavic name swastikas, is a product of speculation and myth-making.

A beautiful example of a rich Slavophile fantasy. Pay special attention to the name of the first swastika on the second page.

Outlandish mystical powers are attributed to the swastika, hence it is understandable that people who are suspicious, superstitious or prone to the occult are interested in it. Does it bring happiness to the wearer? Think for yourself: Hitler used her both in the tail and in the mane, and ended up so badly that you would not wish the enemy.

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was a great lover of swastikas. She drew the symbol wherever her pencils and paints reached, especially in the rooms of her children, so that they would grow up healthy and not grieve about anything. But the empress was shot by the Bolsheviks along with the whole family. The conclusions are obvious.

Currently, many people associate the swastika with Hitler and the Nazis. This opinion has been hammered into our heads for the last 70 years.

Few people remember now that in the period from 1917 to 1923, the swastika symbolism legalized by the state was depicted on Soviet money, and also that at that time on the sleeve patches of officers and soldiers of the Red Army there was also its image in a laurel wreath, inside which the letters R.S.F.S.R. The swastika of the Slavs and the Nazis has differences, but they are very similar. There is even an opinion that Adolf Hitler, as a party symbol, presented a golden swastika, Kolovrat (see its description below), Stalin himself in 1920. A lot of speculation and legends have accumulated around this ancient symbol. Few remember that it was actively used by our ancestors. After reading this article, you will find out what the swastika means among the Slavs, as well as where it is used and by whom else, besides the Slavs, it is used.

What is actually a swastika?

The swastika is a rotating cross, the ends of which are bent and directed either counterclockwise or along it. Now, as a rule, all symbols of this kind around the world are called the common word "swastika". However, this is fundamentally wrong. After all, in ancient times the swastika symbol had its own name, as well as figurative meaning, protective power and purpose.

The very word "swastika" according to the "modern version" allegedly came to us from Sanskrit. It means "welfare". That is, we are talking about the image in which there is the strongest positive charge. Amazing coincidence, however, the galaxy has a swastika shape Milky Way, as well as a human DNA thread, if viewed "from the end". Just imagine that this one word simultaneously contains the whole essence of the macro- and microworld! The vast majority of the symbols of our ancestors, for this very reason, is swastika.

The oldest swastika

As the most ancient swastika symbolism, it is most often found at various archaeological excavations. It was found more often than other symbols on the ruins of ancient settlements and cities, in burial mounds. Swastika symbols, in addition, were depicted on weapons, architectural details, household utensils and clothing among many peoples of the world. It is found everywhere in ornamentation as a symbol of the Sun, Light, Life, Love. There was even an interpretation in the West that it should be understood as an abbreviation consisting of four letters that begin with the Latin L: Luck - "happiness, luck, fate", Life - "life", Light - "sun, light", Love - "love".

Now the oldest archaeological artifacts, on which this image can be seen, are approximately dated to the 4th-15th millennium BC. The richest (according to materials from various archaeological excavations) in terms of the use of both cultural and domestic and religious purposes of the swastika is Siberia and Russia as a whole.

What does the swastika mean among the Slavs?

Neither Asia, nor India, nor Europe can compare with our country in the abundance of swastika symbols covering banners, weapons, national costumes, agricultural and household items, household utensils, as well as temples and houses. Excavations of settlements, cities and ancient burial mounds speak for themselves. Many Slavic cities in antiquity had a clear swastika form. It was oriented to the four cardinal directions. These are such cities as Vendogard, Arkaim and others.

The swastikas of the Slavs were the main and even almost the only elements of the Proto-Slavic ancient ornaments. However, this does not mean at all that our ancestors were bad artists. After all, the swastikas of the Slavs were very numerous and varied. In addition, not a single pattern in ancient times was simply applied to any object, since each element of it had a protective (security) or cult value. That is, the swastikas of the Slavs possessed mystical power. And our ancestors knew about it.

People, having combined mystical forces together, created a favorable atmosphere around their loved ones and themselves, in which it was easier to create and live. Painting, stucco, carved patterns, carpets woven by industrious hands cover swastika patterns.

Swastika in other nations

Not only the Slavs and Aryans believed in the mystical power that these images possessed. Similar symbols have been found on earthenware vessels from Samarra, in present-day Iraq. They date back to the 5th millennium BC. e.

In dextrorotatory and levorotatory form, swastika symbols are also found in the Indus River basin (Mohenjo-Daro, pre-Aryan culture), as well as in ancient China around 2000 BC. e.

Archaeologists have found in northeast Africa a burial stele that existed in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. e. kingdom of Meroe. On it, a fresco depicts a woman who enters the afterlife. At the same time, a swastika flaunts on her clothes.

The rotating cross is also decorated with weights for scales made of gold, which belonged to the inhabitants of Gan (Ashant); ancient Indian clay utensils, beautiful carpets woven by the Celts and Persians.

Below is an image of the swastika on wedding dress a woman who lived in one of the British colonies, dating back to 1910.

Variety of swastikas

Man-made belts created by Russians, Komi, Lithuanians, Latvians, themselves and other peoples also have swastika symbols. Today it is difficult even for an ethnographer to figure out to which people these ornaments can be attributed.

Use of the swastika

Vedic symbols (in particular, swastikas) were used by the Rus in architecture and urban planning, depicted on clay and wooden utensils, on the facades of huts, on women's jewelry - rings, temporal rings, icons, family coats of arms, earthenware. However, the Slavs' swastikas were most widely used in decorating household items and clothing; they were widely used by embroiderers and weavers.

There are many tablecloths, towels, valances (that is, strips of fabric with lace or embroidery that are sewn to the long edge of the sheet, so that the valance hangs above the floor when the bed is made, remaining open), belts, shirts, in the ornaments of which the swastika was used.

Today, the swastika of the Slavs is sometimes used in a very original way. Tattoos depicting her are becoming popular. A photo of one sample is shown below.

There were more than 144 types of their various variants used in Russia. They were of various shapes and sizes, different number rays directed in different directions. Next, we briefly consider some symbols and indicate their meaning.

Kolovrat, Holy Gift, Svaor, Svaor-Solntsevrat

Kolovrat is a symbol denoting the rising Yarilo-Sun. He also points to the eternal victory over the darkness of light and over death - life. Importance the color of Kolovrat also plays: fiery is a symbol of rebirth, black is change, and heaven is renewal. The Kolovrat image is presented below.

Holy gift - the swastika of the Slavs, meaning the northern ancestral home of all white peoples - Daaria, which is now called Arctida, Hyperborea, Paradise Land, Severia. It is believed that this sacred ancient land was in the Northern Ocean. As a result of the First Flood, she died.

Svaor is a symbol of constant, never-ending celestial movement, which is called Svaga. It is the cycle of all forces in the universe. It is believed that if you depict Svaor on household items, there will always be happiness and prosperity in the house.

Svaor-Solntsevrat is a swastika, meaning constant movement across the firmament of the Yarila-Sun. The use of this symbol for a person meant the purity of deeds and thoughts, the light and goodness of spiritual insight.

Agni, Fash, Salting, Charovrat

There were also the following Slavic swastikas.

Agni (fire) is a symbol of the hearth and the sacred fire of the altar. This is a protective sign of the bright higher gods, protecting temples and dwellings.

Fash (flame) symbolizes protective protective spiritual fire. It cleanses the human spirit from base thoughts and selfishness. This is a symbol of the unity of the military spirit and power, victory over the forces of ignorance and darkness of light and reason.

Salting means the setting Yarilo-Sun, that is, retiring. It is a symbol of the completion of work for the benefit of the race and the homeland, the spiritual stamina of a person, as well as the peace of mother nature.

Charovrat is a protective sign that protects an object or person from inducing black spells. They depicted it in the form of a rotating fiery cross, believing that this fire destroys various spells and dark forces.

Bogovnik, Rodovik, Wedding, Dunia

We will present you the following Slavic swastikas.

The bogovnik symbolizes the patronage of the light gods to man and the eternal power of those who have embarked on the path of spiritual perfection and development.

The mandala with this image helps to realize the unity and interpenetration of the four elements that are primordial in our Universe.

Rodovik means the light power of the parent, which helps the peoples, supports the ancestors of people who work for the benefit of their kind and create for their descendants.

The wedding man is the most powerful amulet family, which symbolizes the union of two principles in marriage. This is the merging of two swastika systems into a new one, where the fiery masculine principle is connected to the water feminine.

Dunia is a symbol of the reunion of heavenly and earthly living fire. Its purpose is to preserve the unity of the genus. The fiery altars, which were intended for the bloodless requirements brought to the glory of the ancestors and gods, were built in the form of Dunia.

Sky Boar, Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt, Colard

The heavenly boar is a sign of the hall, a symbol of its patron - the god Ramhat. They denote the connection of the future and the past, heavenly and earthly wisdom. This symbolism in the form of a talisman was used by people who embarked on the path of self-improvement.

Thunderstorm is considered a symbol of fire, with which you can control the elements of the weather. It was also used to protect temples and people's homes from the elements.

Thunderbolt is a symbol of Indra, the god who guards the ancient wisdom, that is, the Vedas. He was depicted as a talisman on military armor and weapons, as well as over the entrances to various vaults so that those who enter there with bad thoughts would be struck by thunder.

Kolard is a symbol of transformation and renewal by fire. It was used by young people who entered into an alliance and wanted to get healthy offspring. The bride was given jewelry with Solard and Kolard for the wedding.

Solard, Fireman, Yarovik, Swastika

Solard is a symbol of the greatness of mother earth, receiving love, warmth and light from the Yarila-Sun. Solard means the prosperity of the land of the ancestors. This is a fire that gives prosperity to the clans, which are created for posterity, to the glory of the ancestors and gods.

The fireman is a symbol of the god Rod. His image is on the platbands, as well as "towels" that are on the shutters of the windows, the slopes of the roofs of houses. It was applied as a charm to the ceilings. Even in Moscow, in St. Basil's Cathedral, you can see this symbol under one of the domes.

Yarovik was used as a talisman in order to avoid the loss of livestock, as well as to preserve the harvest that was harvested. Therefore, he was very often depicted above the entrance to sheepfolds, cellars, barns, barns, cowsheds, stables, etc.

The swastika is a symbol of the cycle of the universe. It symbolizes the heavenly law, to which everything that exists is subject. fire sign this was used by people as a talisman that protected order and law, on the inviolability of which life depended.

Suasti, Sologne, Yarovrat, Spiritual swastika

Suasti is a symbol of the cycle on earth of life, movement and rotation of the earth. It also denotes the four cardinal directions and the northern rivers dividing Daaria into four "countries" or "regions".

Solon is a solar symbol of antiquity, protecting a person from dark forces. As a rule, he was depicted on household items and clothes. Solon is very often found on various kitchen utensils: pots, spoons, etc.

Yarovrat is a symbol of the Yaro-god, who controls the favorable weather conditions and spring flowering. It was considered obligatory by the people in order to get a rich harvest, to draw this symbol on various agricultural implements: scythes, sickles, plows, etc.

The soul swastika was used to concentrate the forces of healing. It could be included in the ornament of clothes only by priests who had risen to a high level of moral and spiritual perfection.

Spiritual swastika, Caroler, Overcome grass, Fern flower

The following four types of Slavic swastikas are offered to your attention.

The spiritual swastika, which symbolized the unity and harmony of conscience, spirit, soul and body, as well as spiritual strength, enjoyed the greatest attention among sorcerers, sorcerers, magicians. Magi used it to control the elements of nature.

Kolyadnik is a symbol of Kolyada, the god who makes changes for the better and updates on earth. This is a sign of the victory of day over night, light over darkness. This is what this swastika of the Slavs means. Amulets depicting her were used by men. It was believed that they give them strength in the battle with the enemy and creative work. This swastika of the Slavs, the photo of which is presented below, was very popular.

Overcome the grass - a symbol that is the main amulet that protects against diseases. It was believed among the people that evil forces send ailments to people, and the double sign of fire is able to cleanse the soul and body, burn any disease and illness.

Fern flower - swastika, a symbol of the Slavs, denoting spiritual purity, with huge healing powers. It is called among the people Perunov color. It is believed that he can open treasures hidden in the earth, fulfill wishes. This symbol actually enables a person to reveal his spiritual powers.

Solar Cross, Heavenly Cross, Svitovit, Light

Another interesting swastika is the Solar Cross. This is a symbol of the prosperity of the family, the spiritual strength of Yarila. This swastika of the ancient Slavs was used mainly as a body amulet. Usually this symbol endowed with the greatest power the priests of the forest, kmetey and gridney, who depicted him on religious accessories, weapons and clothes.

heavenly cross is a sign of the strength of the unity of the genus, as well as heavenly power. It was used as a wearable amulet, which kept the wearer, granting him the help of heaven and ancestors.

Svitovit is a symbol of the connection between heavenly fire and earthly waters. Pure new souls are born from it, preparing for incarnation in the manifest world, on earth. Therefore, this amulet was embroidered by pregnant women on sundresses and dresses so that they would have healthy offspring.

The light is a symbol that personifies two great fiery streams and their union: divine and earthly. This combination gives rise to a whirlwind of transformation, which helps to reveal the essence of being to a person through the knowledge of the most ancient foundations.

Valkyrie, Svarga, Svarozhich, Iglia

Let's supplement the types of swastikas of the Slavs with the following.

Valkyrie is a talisman that protects honor, nobility, justice and wisdom.

This symbol was especially revered by warriors who defended their faith and native land. It was used for the preservation of the Vedas by the priests as a security symbol.

Svarga is a sign of spiritual ascent, a heavenly path through multidimensional realities and areas located on the Golden Way to the world of Rule - the end point of the journey.

Svarozhich is a symbol of the power of Svarog, the god who preserves all the diversity of life forms in the Universe in its original form. This sign protects intelligent forms from spiritual and mental degradation, as well as from destruction.

Iglia means the fire of creation, from which all the Universes arose, as well as the Yarila-Sun system in which we live. This image in amulets is considered a symbol of divine purity, which protects our world from darkness.

Rodimich, Rasic, Stribozhich, Vedara

Rodimich is a symbol of the power of the parent, who preserves in its original form in the Universe the law of continuity of the knowledge of tribal wisdom, from ancestors to descendants, from old to young. This amulet preserves the family memory reliably from generation to generation.

Rasich symbolizes the unity of the great Slavic race. The sign of Inglia, inscribed in the Multidimensional, has four colors, and not one, according to the color of the iris of the eyes of four genera: among the Rassens it is fiery, among the Holy Russians it is heavenly, among the x "Aryans" it is golden, among the yes "Aryans it is silver.

Stribozhich is the symbol of the guardian priest, who conveys the ancient wisdom of childbirth. It preserves: the memory of the gods and ancestors, the culture of relationships, the traditions of the communities.

Vedara is a symbol of the guardian of the faith of the ancestors, who passes on the wisdom of the gods from generation to generation. This symbol helps to use and learn ancient knowledge for the benefit of faith and the prosperity of childbirth.

So, we examined the main swastikas of the Slavs and their meaning. Of course it's not full list. In total, as we have already mentioned, there are 144. However, these are the main Slavic swastikas, and their meaning, as you can see, is quite interesting. It turns out that our ancestors had a huge spiritual culture, transmitted to us in these symbols.