German cross symbol meaning. What does Hitler's swastika mean?

The swastika symbol is a cross with curved ends pointing clockwise or counterclockwise. As a rule, now all Swastika symbols are called in one word - SWASTIKA, which is fundamentally wrong, because. each Swastika symbol in ancient times had its own name, Guardian Power and figurative meaning.

During archaeological excavations, the Swastika symbolism was most often found on various details architecture, weapons, clothes, household utensils of many peoples of Eurasia. Swastika symbolism is ubiquitous in ornamentation as sign of Light, Sun, Life. The oldest archaeological artifacts with the image of a swastika date back to about 10-15 millennium BC. According to archaeological excavations, Russia is the richest territory for the use of the swastika, both a religious and a cultural and everyday symbol - neither Europe nor India can compare with Russia in an abundance of swastika symbols covering Russian weapons, banners, national costume, houses, items everyday life and temples. Excavations of ancient mounds and settlements speak for themselves - many ancient Slavic settlements had a clear shape of the Swastika, oriented to the four cardinal points. Swastika symbols denoted calendar signs back in the days of the Great Scythian Kingdom ( depicts a vessel from the Scythian Kingdom 3-4 thousand BC.)

The swastika and swastika symbols were the main and, one might even say, almost the only elements of the most ancient Proto-Slavic ornaments. But this does not mean at all that the Slavs and Aryans were bad artists. Firstly, there were a lot of varieties of images of the Swastika symbols. Secondly, in ancient times, not a single pattern was applied just like that, each element of the pattern corresponded to a certain cult or security (amulet) value.

But not only Aryans and Slavs believed in magical power this pattern. This symbol was found on clay vessels from Samarra (the territory of modern Iraq), which date back to the 5th millennium BC. Swastika symbols in left-handed and right-handed forms are found in the pre-Aryan culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus River basin) and ancient China around 2000 BC. In Northeast Africa, archaeologists have found a burial stele of the Meroz kingdom, which existed in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. The fresco on the stele depicts a woman entering the afterlife, and the Swastika flaunts on the clothes of the deceased. The rotating cross also adorns the golden weights for scales that belonged to the inhabitants of Ashanta (Ghana), and the clay utensils of the ancient Indians, beautiful carpets woven by the Persians and Celts.

Swastika in beliefs and religions

The swastika symbolism was an amulet for almost all peoples in Europe and Asia: among the Slavs, Germans, Pomors, Skalvians, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Indians, Icelanders, Scots and many other peoples.

In many ancient Beliefs and religions, the Swastika is the most important and brightest cult symbol. Thus, in ancient Indian philosophy and Buddhism(Fig. Buddha's foot on the left) The swastika is a symbol of the eternal cycle of the universe, a symbol of the Buddha's Law, to which everything that exists is subject. (Dictionary "Buddhism", M., "Republic", 1992); in Tibetan Lamaism The swastika is a security symbol, a symbol of happiness and a talisman. In India and Tibet, the Swastika is depicted everywhere: on the gates of temples, on every residential building, on the fabrics in which all sacred texts are wrapped, on burial covers.

Lama Beru-Kinze-Rimpoche, in our time one of the greatest teachers of official Buddhism. The photo shows the rite of his creation of a ritual mandala, that is, pure space, in Moscow in 1993. In the foreground of the photograph is a tanka, a sacred image drawn on cloth, depicting the Divine Space of the mandala. In the corners there are Swastika symbols protecting the sacred Divine space.

As a religious symbol (!!!) the swastika has always been used by followers Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism in the East, Druids of Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, representatives Natur-religious denominations Europe and America in the West.

On the left is Ganesha, the son of God Shiva, God from the Hindu Vedic pantheon, his face is illuminated by two Swastika symbols.
On the right is a Mystic Sacred Diagram taken from a Jain Prayer Book. In the center of the diagram, we can also see the Swastika.

In Russia, Swastika symbols and elements are found among supporters of the Ancient Ancestral and Vedic cults, as well as among the Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings, who profess the Faith of the First Ancestors - Ynglism, in the Slavic and Aryan communities of the Family Circle and, wherever you think, Christians…

Swastika on the shield of Prophetic Oleg

For many, many millennia, the Slavs have used the Swastika symbol. Our Ancestors depicted this symbol on weapons, banners, clothes, household items and worship. Everyone knows that Prophetic Oleg nailed his shield to the gates of Constantinople (Constantinople), but few of the modern generation know what was depicted on the shield. However, a description of the symbolism of his shield and armor can be found in historical chronicles. Prophetic people, i.e., possessing the Gift of Spiritual Foresight and knowing the Ancient Wisdom, which the Gods and Ancestors left to people, were endowed by the Priests with various symbols. One of these most notable people in history was the Slavic prince - Prophetic Oleg. In addition to being a prince and an excellent military strategist, he was also a Priest of High Initiation. The symbolism, which was depicted on his clothes, weapons, armor and the princely banner, tells about this in all the detailed images.
Fire Swastika(symbolizing the land of the Ancestors) in the center of the nine-pointed Star of Inglia (a symbol of the Faith of the First Ancestors) was surrounded by the Great Kolo (Circle of Patron Gods), which radiated eight rays of Spiritual Light (the eighth degree of Priestly initiation) to the Svarog Circle. All this symbolism spoke of the enormous Spiritual and physical strength that is directed to protect the Native Land and the Holy Faith. When Prophetic Oleg nailed his shield with such symbols on the gates of Constantinople, he wanted to figuratively, clearly show the insidious and two-faced Byzantines that later another Slavic prince Alexander Yaroslavovich (Nevsky) would explain to the Teutonic knights in words: “ Who to us with sword will come, by the sword and die! On that stood, stands, and will stand the Russian Land!»

Swastika on money and in the Army

Under Tsar Peter I, the walls of his country residence were decorated with swastika patterns. The ceiling of the throne room in the Hermitage is also covered with these sacred symbols.

At the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century, among the upper classes of European states in Western and Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia, Swastika(left) has become the most common and even fashionable symbol. This was influenced by the "Secret Doctrine" of H.P. Blavatsky and her Theosophical Society; The occult-mystical teachings of Guido von List, the German knightly Order of Thule and other spiritualistic circles.

Common people, both in Europe and in Asia, have been using Swastika ornaments in everyday life for thousands of years, and only at the beginning of this century, interest in Swastika symbols appeared among those in power.

In the young Soviet Russia sleeve patches since 1918, the fighters of the Red Army of the South-Eastern Front were decorated with a swastika, with the abbreviation R.S.F.S.R. inside. For example: the sign for the command and administrative staff was embroidered with gold and silver, and for the Red Army it was screen-printed.

After the overthrow of the autocracy in Russia, the Swastika ornament appears on the new banknotes of the Provisional Government, and after the coup on October 26, 1917 on the banknotes of the Bolsheviks.

Now few people know that the matrices of a banknote in denominations of 250 rubles, with the image of the Swastik symbol - Kolovrat against the background of a double-headed eagle, were made by special order and sketches of the last Russian Tsar - Nicholas II.

Starting from 1918, the Bolsheviks introduced new banknotes into circulation, in denominations of 1000, 5000 and 10,000 rubles, which depict not one Kolovrat, but three. Two smaller Kolovrats in side ties are intertwined with large numbers 1000 and a large Kolovrat in the middle.

Money with the Swastika-Kolovrat was printed by the Bolsheviks and was in use until 1923, and only after the formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were they withdrawn from circulation.

In national: Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian costumes, on sundresses, towels and other things, the Swastika symbolism was the main and, practically, the only one of the oldest existing amulets and ornaments, until the first half of the twentieth century.

Our ancestors were very fond of gathering on the outskirts of the village sometime on a summer evening and listening to lingering tunes dance ... the swastika. There was also an analogue of the symbol in Russian dance culture- Kolovrat dance. On the holiday of Perun, the Slavs drove, and still drive, round dances around two burning swastikas: "Fash" and "Agni" laid out on the ground.

Swastika in Christianity

"Kolovrat" richly decorated churches in the Russian lands; it shone brightly on the sacred objects of the Ancient Solar Cult of the First Ancestors; as well as on the white robes of the clergy of the Old Faith. And even on the robes of the ministers of the Christian cult in the IX-XVI centuries. Swastika symbols were depicted. They decorated the Images and Kummirs of the Gods, frescoes, walls, icons, etc.

For example, on a fresco depicting Christ Pantocrator - the Almighty, in the St. Sophia Cathedral of the Novgorod Kremlin, the so-called left and right Swastikas with short curved rays, but correctly "Charovrat" and "Salting", placed directly on the chest of the Christian God, as symbols of the beginning and end of all things.

On the hierarchical rank in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, in the oldest Christian church built on Russian land by Yaroslav the Wise, belts are depicted in which alternate: "Swastika", "Suasti" and straight Crosses. Christian theologians in the Middle Ages commented on this painting in this way: “Swastika” symbolizes the first coming into the world of the son of God Jesus Christ, to save people from their sins; further on, the direct Cross is his earthly path, ending in suffering at Golgotha; and finally, the left Swastika - "Suasti", symbolizes the resurrection of Jesus Christ and his second coming to Earth in Power and Glory.

In Moscow, in the Kolomna Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist, on the day of the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II from the throne, was discovered in the basement of the temple icon "Our Lady of the Sovereign"(fragment on the left) on the headdress of the Christian Mother of God is depicted the Swastika Amulet symbol - “Fash”.

Many legends and rumors were invented about this ancient icon, for example: allegedly on the personal order of I.V. Stalin, a prayer service was performed on the front line, a religious procession, and thanks to this, the troops of the Third Reich did not take Moscow. Complete absurdity. German troops did not enter Moscow, for a completely different reason. They blocked the road to Moscow by the people's militia and divisions of Siberians, filled with Spiritual Strength and Faith in Victory, and not very coldy, the leading force of the party and government, or some kind of icon. The Siberians not only repulsed all the attacks of the enemy, but also went on the offensive and won the war, because they live in their hearts. ancient principle: "Whoever comes to us with a sword will die by the sword."

In medieval Christianity, the Swastika also symbolized Fire and Wind.- elements that embody the Holy Spirit. If the Swastika, even in Christianity, was really considered a divine sign, then only unreasonable people can say that the Swastika is a symbol of fascism!
* For reference: Fascism in Europe existed only in Italy and Spain. And the fascists of these states did not have Swastika symbols. The swastika was used as party and state symbols by Hitler's Germany, which was not fascist, as it is now interpreted, but national socialist. For those who doubt, read the article by I.V. Stalin "Hands off Socialist Germany". This article was published in the newspapers Pravda and Izvestiya in the 1930s.

Swastika as a talisman

They believed in Swatika as a talisman, "attracting" good luck and happiness. In ancient Russia, it was believed that if you draw Kolovrat on the palm of your hand, you will definitely be lucky. Even modern students draw the Swastika on the palm of their hand before exams. The swastika was also painted on the walls of the house, so that happiness reigned there, and in Russia, and in Siberia, and in India.

In the Ipatiev House, where the family of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II was shot, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna painted all the walls with this divine symbol, but the Swastika did not help the Romanovs against the atheists, this dynasty created too much evil on Russian soil.

Today, philosophers, dowsers and psychics offer build city blocks in the form of Swastika- such configurations should generate positive energy, by the way, these conclusions have already been confirmed by modern science.

Origin of the word "Swastika"

The generally accepted name of the Solar symbol - Swastika, according to one version, comes from the Sanskrit word Suasti. Su- beautiful, good, and asti- to be, that is, “Be good!”, Or, in our opinion, “All the best!”. According to another version, this word has Old Slavic origin, which is more likely (which is confirmed by the archives of the Old Russian Ynglistic Church of the Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings), since it is known that the Swastika symbolism in various variations, and its name was brought to India, Tibet, China, Europe by the ancient Aryans and Slavs. Tibetans and Indians still claim that the Swastika, this universal symbol of prosperity and happiness, was brought to them because of the high northern mountains (Himalayas) by the White Teachers.

In ancient times, when our Ancestors used the Kh'Aryan Runes, the word Swastika ( see left) was translated as Coming from Heaven. Since the rune SVA meant Heaven (hence Svarog - Heavenly God), FROM- Rune of direction; Rune TIKA[last two runes] - movement, advent, flow, run. Our children still pronounce the word tick, i.e. run away, and we meet him in the words Arctic, Antarctic, mystic, etc.

Ancient Vedic sources tell us that even our galaxy has the shape of a Swastika, and our Yarila-Sun system is located in one of the arms of this Heavenly Swastika. And since we are in the galactic arm, our entire galaxy, its ancient name of the Swastika, is perceived by us as the Perunov Way or the Milky Way.

The ancient names of the Swastika symbols in Russia are mainly preserved in the everyday life of the Orthodox Old Believers-Ynglings and Righteous Old Believers-schismatics. In the East, among the followers of the Vedic Religion, where Ancient Wisdom is recorded in the Holy Scriptures in ancient languages: and Kh'Aryan. The Kh'Aryan script uses Runes in the shape of a Swastika(see text on the left).

Sanskrit, more correct Samhidden(Samskrita), i.e. A self-contained secretive used by modern Indians evolved from ancient language Aryans and Slavs, it was created as a simplified version of the Kh'Aryan Karuna, for the preservation of the Ancient Vedas by the inhabitants of Dravidia (ancient India), and therefore ambiguous interpretations of the origin of the word "Swastika" are now possible, but after reading the materials cited in this article, an intelligent person whose consciousness has not yet been completely filled with false stereotypes, it will be convinced of the undoubted ancient Slavic and ancient Aryan, which is actually the same, the origin of this word.

If almost all foreign languages various inscriptions of the Solar Cross with curved rays are called in one word Swastika - “Swastika”, then in Russian for various variants of the Swastika symbols existed and still exists 144 (!!!) titles, which also indicates the country of origin of this Solar symbol. For example: Swastika, Kolovrat, Salting, Holy Gift, Svasti, Svaor, Svaor-Solntsevrat, Agni, Fash, Mara; Inglia, Solar Cross, Solard, Vedara, Svetolet, Fern Flower, Perunov Color, Swati, Race, Bogovnik, Svarozhich, Yarovrat, Odolen-Grass, Rodimich, Charovrat etc. Among the Slavs, depending on the color, length, direction of the curved ends of the Solar Cross, this symbol was called differently and had different figurative and protective meanings (see).

Swastika Runes

Various variations of the Swastika symbols, with at least different meanings, are found not only in cult and protective symbols, but also in the form of Runes, which, like letters in ancient times, had their own figurative meaning. So, for example, in the ancient Kh`Aryan Karuna, i.e. Runic alphabet, there were four Runes depicting Swastika elements.

Rune Fash- had a figurative meaning: a powerful, directed, destructive Fiery stream (thermonuclear fire) ...
Rune Agni- had figurative meanings: the Sacred Fire of the hearth, as well as the Sacred Fire of Life in the human body, and other meanings ...
Rune Mara- had a figurative meaning: the Ice Flame guarding the Peace of the Universe. The rune of the transition from the World of Reveal to the World of Light Navi (Glory), incarnation in the New Life ... The symbol of Winter and Sleep.
Rune Inglia- had a figurative meaning of the Primary Fire of the Creation of the Universe, from this Fire a lot of various Universes and various forms of Life appeared ...

Swastika symbols carry a huge secret meaning. They have great wisdom. Each Swastika symbol opens before us great picture universe. Ancient Slavic-Aryan Wisdom says that our galaxy is shaped like a swastika and is called SWATI, and the Yarila-Sun system, in which our Midgard-Earth makes its way, is located in one of the arms of this Heavenly Swastika.

Knowledge of the Ancient Wisdom does not accept a stereotypical approach. The study of ancient symbols, Runic writings and ancient Traditions must be approached with open heart and pure soul. Not for self-interest, but for knowledge!

Is the swastika a fascist symbol?

Swastika symbols in Russia, for political purposes, were used not only by the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, much earlier than them, representatives of the Black Hundred began to use the Swastika. Now, the Swastika symbolism is used by the Russian National Unity. A knowledgeable person never says that the Swastika is German or fascist symbol . So they say only the essence of unreasonable and ignorant people, because they reject what they are not able to understand and know, and also try to wishful thinking. But if ignorant people reject any symbol or any information, this still does not mean that this symbol or information does not exist. Denial or distortion of truth for the sake of some, violates the harmonious development of others. Even the ancient symbol of the Majesty of the Fertility of the Mother of the Raw Earth, called in ancient times - SOLARD (see above), and now used by the Russian National Unity, some incompetent people rank as German fascist symbols, a symbol that appeared many hundreds of thousands of years before the rise of German National Socialism. At the same time, it does not even take into account the fact that the SOLARD of the Russian National Unity is combined with an eight-pointed Star of Lada-Virgin Mary (image 2), where the Divine Forces (Golden Field), the Primary Fire Forces (red), the Heavenly Forces (blue) and the Forces of Nature (green) united together. The only difference between the original Symbol of Mother Nature and the sign used by the social movement "Russian National Unity" is the multicolor of the Initial Symbol of Mother Nature and the two-color one for representatives of Russian National Unity.

Swastika - feather grass, hare, horse ...

At ordinary people had their own names of Swastika symbols. In the villages of the Ryazan province, she was called " feather grass"- the embodiment of the Wind; on the Pechora hare"- here the graphic symbol was perceived as a piece of sunlight, a ray, sun bunny; in some places the Solar Cross was called " by horse”, “horse shank” (horse head), because a long time ago a horse was considered a symbol of the Sun and Wind; were called Swastikas-Solarniks and " flintlocks", Again, in honor of Yarila-Sun. The people very correctly felt both the Fiery, Fiery Nature of the symbol (Sun) and its Spiritual essence (Wind).

Elder Master Khokhloma painting Stepan Pavlovich Veselov (1903-1993) from the village of Mogushino, Nizhny Novgorod region, following the traditions, painted the Swastika on wooden plates and bowls, calling it " camelina”, the Sun, and explained: “This is the wind of a blade of grass shakes, stirs.” On the above fragments, you can see Swastika symbols even on such household appliances used by Russian people as a spinning wheel and a cutting board.

To this day, in the countryside, women wear elegant sundresses and shirts for holidays, and men wear blouses embroidered with swastika symbols of various shapes. Lush loaves and sweet cookies are baked, decorated on top with Kolovrat, Salting, Solstice and other swastika patterns.

Prohibition of the use of the Swastika

As mentioned earlier, before the second half of the 20th century, the main and almost the only patterns and symbols that existed in Slavic embroidery were Swastika ornaments. But the enemies of the Aryans and Slavs in the second half of the 20th century, they began to decisively eradicate this solar symbol , and eradicated it in the same way as they had previously eradicated: the ancient folk Slavic and Aryan; Ancient Faith and Folk Traditions; The true history, undistorted by the rulers, and the long-suffering Slavic People itself, the bearer of the ancient Slavic-Aryan Culture.

And now, in the government and locally, many officials are trying to ban any kind of rotating Solar Crosses - in many ways the same people, or their descendants, but using different pretexts: if earlier this was done under the pretext of class struggle and anti-Soviet conspiracies, then now they are opponents of everything Slavic and Aryan, called fascist symbols and Russian chauvinism.

For those who are not indifferent to the ancient Culture, there are several (a very small number of pictures, due to the limitation of the article) typical patterns in Slavic embroidery, on all enlarged fragments you can see the Swastika symbols and ornaments for yourself.

The use of swastika symbols in ornaments in the Slavic lands is simply incalculable. Academician B.A. Rybakov called the Solar symbol - Kolovrat, a link between the Paleolithic, where it first appeared, and modern ethnography, which provides innumerable examples of swastika patterns in fabrics, embroidery and weaving.

But after the Second World War, in which Russia, as well as all the Slavic and Aryan peoples suffered huge losses, the enemies of the Aryan and Slavic Culture began to equate fascism and the Swastika. At the same time, they completely forgot (?!) that fascism, as a political and state system in Europe, existed only in Italy and Spain, where the Swastika symbol was not used. The swastika, as a party and state symbol, was adopted only in National Socialist Germany, which at that time was called the Third Reich.

The Slavs used this Solar Sign throughout their existence (according to the latest scientific data, this is at least 15 thousand years), and the President of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler, was only about 25 years old. The flow of lies and fictions regarding the Swastika overflowed the cup of absurdity. "Teachers" in modern schools, lyceums and gymnasiums in Russia teach children complete nonsense that the Swastika and any Swastika symbol are German fascist crosses, made up of four letters "G", denoting the first letters of leaders Nazi Germany: Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels (sometimes replaced by Hess). Listening to such "teachers", one might think that Germany during the time of Adolf Hitler used exclusively the Russian alphabet, and not at all the Latin script and the German Runic. Is it in German surnames: HITLER, HIMMLER, GERING, GEBELS (HESS), there is at least one Russian letter "G" - no! But the flow of lies does not stop.

Swastika patterns and elements are used by peoples, which is confirmed by archaeologists over the past 5-6 thousand years. And now, to a person wearing ancient Slavic amulets or mittens with the image of Swastika symbols, a sundress or a blouse with Swastika embroidery, people who have been trained by Soviet "teachers" are ignorantly wary, and sometimes even aggressively. Ancient thinkers did not say in vain: Human development is hindered by two troubles: ignorance and ignorance". Our Ancestors were knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and therefore used various Swastika elements and ornaments in everyday life, considering them as symbols of the Yarila-Sun, Life, Happiness and prosperity.

Only narrow-minded and ignorant people can denigrate everything pure, bright and good that remains among the Slavic and Aryan peoples. Let's not be like them! Do not paint over the Swastika symbols in the ancient Slavic temples and Christian temples, on the Kummirs of the Light Gods and the Images of the Wise Ancestors, as well as on the oldest Christian icons of the Mother of God and Christ. Do not destroy, at the whim of the ignoramuses and Slav-haters, the so-called “Soviet staircase”, and the ceilings of the Hermitage, or the domes of the Moscow St. Basil’s Cathedral, just because various versions of the Swastika have been painted on them for hundreds of years.

One generation replaces another, state systems and regimes collapse, but as long as the People remember their ancient roots, honor the traditions of their Great Ancestors, retain their ancient culture and symbols, until that time the People are ALIVE and will LIVE!

Today, many people, having heard the word "swastika", immediately imagine Adolf Hitler, concentration camps and the horrors of the Second World War. But, in fact, this symbol appeared before the new era and has a very rich history. It also received wide distribution in Slavic culture, where there were many of its modifications. A synonym for the word "swastika" was the concept of "solar", that is, sunny. Were there any differences in the swastika of the Slavs and the Nazis? And if so, what were they expressed in?

First, let's recall what a swastika looks like. This is a cross, each of the four ends of which is bent at a right angle. Moreover, all corners are directed in one direction: to the right or to the left. Looking at such a sign, a feeling of its rotation is created. There are opinions that the main difference between the Slavic and fascist swastikas lies in the direction of this very rotation. For the Germans, this is right-hand traffic (clockwise), and for our ancestors it is left-hand (counterclockwise). But this is not all that distinguishes the swastika of the Aryans and Aryans.

Also important hallmark is the constancy of color and shape in the sign of the Fuhrer's army. The lines of their swastika are quite wide, absolutely straight, black. The underlying background is a white circle on a red canvas.

But what about the Slavic swastika? First, as already mentioned, there are many swastika signs that differ in shape. The basis of each symbol, of course, is a cross with right angles at the ends. But the cross may not have four ends, but six or even eight. Additional elements may appear on its lines, including smooth, rounded lines.

Secondly, the color of the swastika signs. There is also diversity here, but not so pronounced. The predominant symbol is red on a white background. The red color was not chosen by chance. After all, he was the personification of the sun among the Slavs. But there are also blue yellow colors on some of the signs. Thirdly, the direction of movement. Earlier it was said that among the Slavs it is the opposite of fascist. However, this is not quite true. We meet both right-handed swastikas among the Slavs, and left-handed ones.

We have considered only the external distinctive attributes of the swastika of the Slavs and the swastika of the Nazis. But much more important facts are the following:

• Approximate time of sign appearance.
• The value given to it.
• Where and under what conditions was this symbol used.

Let's start with the Slavic swastika

It is difficult to name the time when it appeared among the Slavs. But, for example, among the Scythians, it was recorded in the fourth millennium BC. And since a little later the Slavs began to stand out from the Indo-European community, then, for sure, they were already used by them at that time (the third or second millennium BC). Moreover, among the Proto-Slavs they were fundamental ornaments.

Swastika signs abounded in the everyday life of the Slavs. And therefore it is impossible to attribute the same meaning to all of them. In fact, each symbol was individual and carried its own semantic load. By the way, the swastika could be either an independent sign or be part of more complex ones (moreover, most often it was located in the center). Here are the main meanings of the Slavic swastika (solar symbols):

• Sacred and Sacrificial fire.
• Ancient wisdom.
• Home.
• Unity of the Genus.
• Spiritual development, self-improvement.
• The patronage of the gods in wisdom and justice.
• In the sign of Valkykria, it is a talisman of wisdom, honor, nobility, justice.

That is, in general, we can say that the meaning of the swastika was somehow sublime, spiritually high, noble.

Archaeological excavations have given us a lot of valuable information. It turned out that in ancient times the Slavs put similar signs on their weapons, embroidered on a suit (clothes) and textile accessories (towels, towels), carved on elements of their homes, household items (dishes, spinning wheels and other wooden devices). They did all this mainly for the purpose of protection, in order to protect themselves and their home from evil forces, from grief, from fire, from the evil eye. After all, the ancient Slavs were very superstitious in this regard. And with such protection, they felt much more secure and confident. Even mounds and settlements of the ancient Slavs could have a swastika shape. At the same time, the ends of the cross symbolized a certain direction of the world.

Nazi swastika

• Adolf Hitler himself adopted this sign as a symbol of the National Socialist movement. But, we know that he did not come up with it. In general, the swastika was used by other nationalist groups in Germany even before the emergence of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Therefore, let us take the time of appearance for the beginning of the twentieth century.

An interesting fact: the person who suggested to Hitler to take the swastika as a symbol initially presented a left-sided cross. But the Fuhrer insisted on replacing it with a right-hand one.

• The meaning of the swastika among the Nazis is diametrically opposed to that of the Slavs. According to one version, it meant the purity of German blood. Hitler himself said that the black cross itself symbolizes the struggle for victory. Aryan race, creative work. In general, the Fuhrer considered the swastika an ancient anti-Semitic sign. In his book, he writes that the white circle is the national idea, the red rectangle is the social idea of ​​the Nazi movement.
• Where was it used fascist swastika? First, on the legendary flag of the Third Reich. Secondly, the military had it on the belt buckles, as a patch on the sleeve. Thirdly, the swastika "decorated" official buildings, occupied territories. In general, it could be on any attributes of the Nazis, but these were the most common.

So in this way, the swastika of the Slavs and the swastika of the Nazis has tremendous differences. This is expressed not only in external features, but also in semantic ones. If among the Slavs this sign personified something good, noble, high, then among the Nazis it was a truly Nazi sign. Therefore, you should not, having heard something about the swastika, immediately think about fascism. After all, the Slavic swastika was lighter, more humane, more beautiful.

Symbols were powerful weapons in the Nazi transformation of society. Never before or since in history have symbols played such an important role in political life and been used so consciously. The national revolution, according to the Nazis, not only had to be carried out - it had to be seen.

The Nazis not only destroyed all those democratic public institutions laid down during the Weimar Republic, they also nullified all the external signs of democracy in the country. The National Socialists absorbed the state even more than Mussolini did in Italy, and party symbols became part of the state symbols. The black-red-yellow banner of the Weimar Republic was replaced by the Nazi red-white-black with a swastika. The German state emblem was replaced by a new one, and the swastika took center stage in it.

The life of society at all levels was saturated with Nazi symbols. No wonder Hitler was interested in methods of influencing mass consciousness. Based on the opinion of the French sociologist Gustave Le Bon on what to control large groups people best with the help of propaganda aimed at the senses and not at the intellect, he created a gigantic propaganda apparatus that was supposed to convey to the masses the ideas of National Socialism in a simple, understandable and emotional way. Many official symbols appeared, each reflecting a part of Nazi ideology. Symbols worked like the rest of propaganda: uniformity, repetition, and mass production.

The Nazi desire for total power over citizens was also manifested in the insignia that people from the most different areas. Members of political organizations or administrations wore cloth patches, badges of honour, and pinned badges with symbols approved by the Goebbels Propaganda Ministry.

The insignia was also used to separate the "unworthy" to participate in the construction of the new Reich. Jews, for example, were stamped with the letter J (Jude, Jew) in their passports to control their entry and exit from the country. The Jews were also ordered to wear stripes on their clothes - a yellow six-pointed "star of David" with the word Jude ("Jew"). Such a system was most widespread in concentration camps, where prisoners were divided into categories and forced to wear stripes indicating their belonging to a particular group. Often the stripes were triangular, as a warning road signs. different categories prisoners were matched with different colors of stripes. Blacks were worn by the mentally handicapped, alcoholics, lazy, gypsies and women sent to concentration camps for so-called anti-social behavior: prostitution, lesbianism or for using contraceptives. Homosexual men were required to wear pink triangles, members of the Jehovah's Witnesses - purple. Red, the color of socialism so hated by the Nazis, was worn by "enemies of the state": political prisoners, socialists, anarchists and freemasons. The patches could be combined. For example, a homosexual Jew was forced to wear a pink triangle on a yellow triangle. Together they created a two-color "Star of David".

Swastika

The swastika is the most famous symbol of German National Socialism. This is one of the oldest and most common symbols in the history of mankind, which was used in many cultures, at different times and in different parts of the world. Its origin is debatable.

The most ancient archaeological finds with the image of the swastika are rock paintings on ceramic shards found in southeastern Europe, their age is more than 7 thousand years. The swastika is found there as part of the "alphabet" that was used in the Indus Valley in bronze age, i.e. 2600-1900 BC Similar finds of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages have also been discovered during excavations in the Caucasus.

Archaeologists have found the swastika not only in Europe, but also on objects found in Africa, South and North America. Most likely, in different regions this symbol was used quite independently.

The meaning of the swastika can be different depending on the culture. In ancient China, for example, the swastika denoted the number 10,000 and then infinity. In Indian Jainism, it denotes four levels of being. In Hinduism, the swastika, in particular, symbolized the fire god Agni and the sky god Diaus.

Its names are also numerous. In Europe, the symbol was called "four-legged", or cross gammadion, or even just gammadion. The word "swastika" itself comes from Sanskrit and can be translated as "something that brings happiness."

The swastika as an Aryan symbol

The transformation of the swastika from an ancient symbol of the sun and good luck to one of the most hated signs in the Western world began with the excavations of the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann. In the 70s XIX years century Schliemann began excavations of the ruins of ancient Troy near Hisarlik in the north of modern Turkey. On many finds, the archaeologist discovered a swastika, a symbol familiar to him from ancient pottery found during excavations at Köningswalde in Germany. Therefore, Schliemann decided that he had found the missing link connecting the Germanic ancestors, Greece of the Homeric era and the mythical India, sung in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

Schliemann consulted the orientalist and racial theorist Emil Burnauf, who argued that the swastika is a stylized image (view from above) of the burning altar of the ancient Aryans. Since the Aryans worshiped fire, the swastika was their main religious symbol, Burnauf concluded.

The discovery caused a sensation in Europe, especially in the recently unified Germany, where the ideas of Burnauf and Schliemann met with a warm response. Gradually, the swastika lost its original meaning and began to be considered an exclusively Aryan symbol. Its distribution was considered a geographical indication of exactly where the ancient "supermen" were in one or another historical period. More sober-minded scientists resisted such a simplification and pointed to cases when the swastika was also found outside the region where the Indo-European languages ​​\u200b\u200bdistributed.

Gradually, the swastika began to be given an increasingly anti-Semitic meaning. Burnauf argued that the Jews did not accept the swastika. The Polish writer Mikael Zmigrodsky published Die Mutter bei den Völkern des arischen Stammes in 1889, which portrayed the Aryans as a pure race that did not allow mixing with Jews. In the same year, at the World Fair in Paris, Zmigrodsky arranged an exhibition of archaeological finds with a swastika. Two years later, the German scholar Ernst Ludwig Krause wrote Tuisko-Land, der arischen Stämme und Götter Urheimat, in which the swastika appeared as an obviously anti-Semitic symbol of popular nationalism.

Hitler and the swastika flag

The National Socialist Party of Germany (NSDAP) formally adopted the swastika as a party symbol in 1920. Hitler was not yet chairman of the party at that time, but he was responsible for propaganda issues in it. He understood that the party needed something that would distinguish it from competing groups and at the same time attract the masses.

Having made several sketches of the banner, Hitler chose the following: a black swastika in a white circle on a red background. The colors were borrowed from the old imperial banner, but expressed the dogmas of National Socialism. In his autobiography Mein Kampf, Hitler then explained: “Red is social thought in motion, white represents nationalism, and the swastika is a symbol of the struggle of the Aryans and their victory, which is thus the victory of the idea of ​​creative work, which in itself has always been anti-Semitic and always will be anti-Semitic.”

The swastika as a national symbol

In May 1933, just a few months after Hitler came to power, a law was passed to protect "national symbols". According to this law, the swastika was not supposed to be depicted on foreign objects, and the commercial use of the sign was also prohibited.

In July 1935, the German merchant ship Bremen entered the port of New York. The Nazi flag with the swastika flew next to the German national flag. Hundreds of union and American Communist Party members gathered on the wharf for an anti-Nazi rally. The demonstration escalated into riots, excited workers boarded the Bremen, tore off the swastika flag and threw it into the water. The incident led the German ambassador in Washington to demand a formal apology from the American government four days later. The Americans refused to apologize, saying that the disrespect was shown not to the national flag, but only to the flag of the Nazi Party.

The Nazis were able to use this incident to their advantage. Hitler called it "the humiliation of the German people". And to prevent this from happening in the future, the status of the swastika was raised to the level of a national symbol.

On September 15, 1935, the first of the so-called Nuremberg Laws came into force. It legalized the colors of the German state: red, white and black, and the flag with a swastika became the state flag of Germany. In November of the same year, this banner was introduced into the army. During the Second World War, it spread to all the countries occupied by the Nazis.

The cult of the swastika

However, in the Third Reich, the swastika was not a symbol of state power, but primarily an expression of the worldview of National Socialism. During their reign, the Nazis created a cult of the swastika that more closely resembled a religion than the usual political use of the symbols. The grandiose mass gatherings organized by the Nazis were like religious ceremonies, where Hitler was assigned the role of high priest. During party days in Nuremberg, for example, Hitler exclaimed "Heil!" - and hundreds of thousands of Nazis answered in chorus: "Heil, my Fuhrer"! With bated breath, the huge crowd watched as huge banners with swastikas were slowly unfurled to the solemn drum roll.

This cult also included a special veneration of the banner, preserved from the time of the "beer putsch" in Munich in 1923, when several Nazis were shot dead by the police. The legend claimed that a few drops of blood fell on the cloth. Ten years later, after coming to power, Hitler ordered the delivery of this flag from the archives of the Bavarian police. And since then, each new army standard or flag with a swastika went through a special ceremony, during which the new cloth touched this blood-stained banner, which became a relic of the Nazis.

The cult of the swastika as a symbol of the Aryan race was to eventually replace Christianity. Since the Nazi ideology presented the world as a struggle between races and peoples, Christianity with its Jewish roots was in their eyes another proof that the earlier Aryan regions had been "conquered" by the Jews. Towards the end of World War II, the Nazis developed far-reaching plans to transform the German church into a "national" church. All christian symbols should have been replaced in it by Nazi ones. Party ideologue Alfred Rosenberg wrote that all crosses, Bibles and images of saints should be removed from churches. Instead of a Bible, Mein Kampf should be on the altar, and a sword to the left of the altar. Crosses in all churches should be replaced by "the only invincible symbol - the swastika."

post-war period

After the Second World War, the swastika in the Western world was so associated with the atrocities and crimes of Nazism that it completely overshadowed all other interpretations. Today in the West, the swastika is associated primarily with Nazism and right-wing extremism. In Asia, the swastika sign is still considered positive, although, since the middle of the 20th century, some Buddhist temples have been decorated only with left-handed swastikas, although signs of both directions were previously used.

National symbols

Just as the Italian fascists presented themselves as the modern heirs of the Roman Empire, the Nazis sought to prove their connection to ancient German history. It was not for nothing that Hitler called the state he conceived the Third Reich. The first large-scale state formation was the German-Roman Empire, which existed in one form or another for almost a thousand years, from 843 to 1806. A second attempt at a German empire, made in 1871, when Bismarck united the North German lands under Prussian rule, failed with Germany's defeat in World War I.

German National Socialism, like Italian Fascism, was an extreme form of nationalism. This was expressed in their borrowing of signs and symbols from the early history of the Germans. These include the combination of red, white and black colors, as well as the symbols used by the militaristic power during the Prussian Empire.

Scull

The image of the skull is one of the most common symbols in the history of mankind. It has different meanings in different cultures. In the West, the skull is traditionally associated with death, with the passage of time, with the finiteness of life. Skull drawings existed in ancient times, but became more noticeable in the 15th century: they appeared in abundance in all cemeteries and mass graves associated with the plague epidemic. In Sweden, church paintings depict death as a skeleton.

The associations associated with the skull have always been a suitable symbol for those groups that wanted to either scare people or emphasize their own contempt for death. A well-known example is the pirates of the West Indies of the 17th and 18th centuries, who used black flags with the image of a skull, often combining it with other symbols: a sword, an hourglass or bones. For the same reasons, the skull and crossbones began to be used to indicate danger in other areas. For example, in chemistry and medicine, a skull and crossbones on a label means that the drug is poisonous and life-threatening.

SS men wore metal badges with skulls on their headdresses. The same sign was used in the Life Hussars of the Prussian Guards back in the time of Frederick the Great, in 1741. In 1809, the "Black Corps" of the Duke of Brunswick wore a black uniform depicting a skull without a lower jaw.

Both of these options - a skull and bones or a skull without a lower jaw - existed in the German army during the First World War. In the elite units, these symbols meant fighting courage and contempt for death. When in June 1916 the sapper regiment of the First Guard received the right to wear a white skull on the sleeve, the commander addressed the soldiers with the following speech: "I am convinced that this insignia of the new detachment will always be worn as a sign of contempt for death and fighting spirit."

After the war, the German units that refused to recognize the Treaty of Versailles chose the skull as their symbol. Some of them entered Hitler's personal guard, which later became the SS. In 1934, the leadership of the SS officially approved the version of the skull, which is still used by neo-Nazis today. The skull was also the symbol of the SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf". This division was originally recruited from concentration camp guards. The ring with a "dead head", that is, with a skull, was also an honorary award that Himmler presented to distinguished and well-deserved SS men.

For both the Prussian army and the soldiers of the imperial units, the skull was a symbol of blind loyalty to the commander and readiness to follow him to death. This meaning has also been transferred to the symbol SS. “We wear a skull on black caps as a warning to the enemy and as a sign of readiness to sacrifice our lives for the Fuhrer and his ideals,” such a statement belongs to Alois Rosenvink, an SS man.

Since the image of the skull was widely used in the most different areas, then in our time it turned out to be the least symbol associated with Nazi ideology. The most famous modern Nazi organization that uses the skull in its symbolism is the British Combat 18.

iron Cross

Initially, the "Iron Cross" was the name of a military order established by the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III in March 1813. Now both the order itself and the image of the cross on it are called so.

"Iron Cross" different degrees handed over to soldiers and officers of four wars. First in the Prussian war against Napoleon in 1813, then during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, and then during the First World War. The order symbolized not only courage and honor, but was closely associated with the German cultural tradition. For example, during the Prussian-Austrian war of 1866, the Iron Cross was not awarded, since it was considered a war between two fraternal peoples.

With the outbreak of World War II, Hitler revived the order. In the center of the cross was added, the colors of the ribbon were changed to black, red and white. However, the tradition has been preserved to indicate the year of issue. Therefore, the year 1939 is stamped on the Nazi versions of the Iron Cross. During the Second World War, approximately 3.5 million Iron Crosses were awarded. In 1957, when the wearing of Nazi symbols was banned in West Germany, war veterans were given the opportunity to turn in orders and get back the same ones, but without the swastika.

The symbolism of the order has a long history. Christian cross, which began to be used in Ancient Rome in the 4th century BC, originally meant the salvation of mankind through the martyrdom of Christ on the cross and the resurrection of Christ. When Christianity militarized in the era of the Crusades in the 12th and 13th centuries, the meaning of the symbol expanded and began to cover such virtues of the crusaders as courage, loyalty and honor.

One of the many knightly orders that arose at that time was the Teutonic Order. In 1190, during the siege of Acre in Palestine, merchants from Bremen and Lübeck established a field hospital. Two years later, the Teutonic Order received formal status from the Pope, who endowed it with a symbol: a black cross on a white background, called the cross patté. The cross is equilateral, its crossbars are curved and expand from the center to the ends.

Over time, the Teutonic Order grew in numbers and its importance increased. During the Crusades to Eastern Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Teutonic Knights conquered significant territories in the place of modern Poland and Germany. In 1525, the order underwent secularization, and the lands belonging to it became part of the Duchy of Prussia. The black-and-white knights' cross existed in Prussian heraldry until 1871, when its stylized version with straight lines became the symbol of the German war machine.

Thus, the iron cross, like many other symbols that were used in Nazi Germany, is not a Nazi political symbol, but a military one. Therefore, it is not banned in modern Germany, in contrast to purely fascist symbols, and is still used in the Bundeswehr army. However, neo-Nazis began to use it during their gatherings instead of the banned swastika. And instead of the forbidden banner of the Third Reich, the war flag of Imperial Germany is used.

The iron cross is also common among biker groups. It is also found in popular subcultures, for example, among surfers. Variants of the iron cross are found in the logos of various companies.

wolf hook

In 1910, the German writer Hermann Löns published historical novel under the name "Werewolf" ("Werewolf"). The action in the book takes place in a German village during the Thirty Years' War. We are talking about the struggle of the peasant son of Garm Wolf against the legionnaires, who, like insatiable wolves, terrorize the population. The hero of the novel makes his symbol "wolf hook" - a transverse crossbar with two sharp hooks at the ends. The novel became extremely popular, especially in nationalist circles, because of the romantic image of the German peasants.

Löns was killed in France during the First World War. However, his popularity continued in the Third Reich. By order of Hitler in 1935, the remains of the writer were transferred and buried on German soil. The Werewolf novel was reprinted several times, and the cover often featured this sign, which was included in the number of state-sanctioned symbols.

After the defeat in the First World War and the collapse of the empire, the "wolf hook" became a symbol of national resistance against the policies of the victors. It was used by various nationalist groups - Jungnationalen Bundes and Deutschen Pfadfinderbundes, and one volunteer corps even took the name of the novel "Werwolf".

The sign "wolf hook" (Wolfsangel) existed in Germany for many hundreds of years. Its origin is not entirely clear. The Nazis claim that the sign is pagan, citing its resemblance to the Old Norse i rune, but there is no evidence for this. The "wolf hook" was carved on the buildings by members of the medieval masons' guild, who traveled around Europe and built cathedrals as early as the 14th century (these artisans were then formed into masons or "free masons"). Later, starting from the 17th century, the sign was included in the heraldry of many noble families and city coats of arms. According to some versions, the shape of the sign resembles a tool that was used to hang wolf carcasses after hunting, but this theory is probably based on the name of the symbol. The word Wolfsangel itself is first mentioned in the Wapenkunst heraldic dictionary of 1714, but denotes a completely different symbol.

Different versions of the symbol were used by young “wolf cubs” from the Hitler Youth and in the military apparatus. The most well-known examples of the use of this symbol are: “wolf hook” patches were worn by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, the Eighth Panzer Regiment, the 4th SS Motorized Infantry Division, the Dutch SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland. In Sweden, this symbol was used in the 1930s by the youth wing of Lindholm's Youth of the North (Nordisk Ungdom).

At the end of World War II, the Nazi regime began to create a kind of partisan groups that were supposed to fight the enemy who had entered German soil. Influenced by Löns's novels, these groups also began to be called "Werwolf", and in 1945 the "wolf hook" became their hallmark. Some of these groups continued to fight against the Allied forces even after the surrender of Germany, for which today's neo-Nazis began to mythologize them.

The "wolf hook" can also be depicted vertically, with points pointing up and down. In this case, the symbol is called Donnerkeil - "lightning".

Working class symbols

Before Hitler got rid of the socialist faction of the NSDAP during the Night of the Long Knives, the party also used the symbols of the labor movement - primarily in the SA assault squads. In particular, as with the Italian fascist militants a decade earlier, in the early 30s, a revolutionary black banner was encountered in Germany. Sometimes it was completely black, sometimes combined with symbols such as the swastika, "wolf hook" or skull. At present, black banners are found almost exclusively among anarchists.

Hammer and sword

In the Weimar Republic of the 1920s, there were political groups that tried to combine socialist ideas with völkisch ideology. This was reflected in the attempts to create symbols that combined elements of these two ideologies. Most often among them there were a hammer and a sword.

The hammer was drawn from the symbolism of the developing labor movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The symbols that glorified the working people were taken from a set of common tools. The most famous were, of course, the hammer and sickle, which in 1922 were adopted as symbols of the newly formed Soviet Union.

The sword has traditionally served as a symbol of struggle and power, and in many cultures it has also been an integral part of various gods of war, for example, the god Mars in Roman mythology. In National Socialism, the sword became a symbol of the struggle for the purity of a nation or race and existed in many variants.

The sword symbol contained the idea of ​​the future "unity of the people", which the workers and soldiers were to achieve after the revolution. For several months in 1924, the radical leftist and later nationalist Sepp Erter published a newspaper called Hammer and Sword, the logo of which used the symbol of two crossed hammers intersecting with a sword.

And in Hitler's NSDAP there were leftist movements - primarily represented by the brothers Gregor and Otto Strasser. The Strasser brothers published books at the Rhein-Ruhr and Kampf publishing houses. Both firms used the hammer and sword as emblems. The symbol was also found in the early stages of the existence of the Hitler Youth, before Hitler cracked down on all socialist elements in the Nazi movement in 1934.

Gear

Most of the symbols used in the Third Reich have existed in one form or another for hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. But the gear refers to much later characters. It began to be used only after the industrial revolution of the 18th and 18th centuries. The symbol denoted technology in general, technical progress and mobility. Due to the direct connection with industrial development, the gear has become a symbol of factory workers.

The first in Nazi Germany to use the gear as its symbol was the Technical Department (Technische Nothilfe, TENO, TENO), founded back in 1919. This organization, where the letter T in the shape of a hammer and the letter N was placed inside the gear, provided technical support to various right-wing extremist groups. TENO was responsible for the operation and protection of such important industries as water and gas. Over time, TENO joined the German war machine and became directly subordinate to Himmler.

After Hitler came to power in 1933, all trade unions were banned in the country. Instead of trade unions, the workers were united in the German Labor Front (DAF, DAF). The same gear was chosen as a symbol, but with a swastika inside, and the workers were obliged to wear these badges on their clothes. Similar badges, a gear with an eagle, were awarded to aviation maintenance workers - the Luftwaffe.

The gear itself is not a Nazi symbol. It is used by workers' organizations different countries- as a socialist direction, and not related to it. Among the skinhead movement, dating back to the British labor movement of the 1960s, it is also a common symbol.

Modern neo-Nazis use the gear when they want to emphasize their working origin and oppose themselves to the "cuffs", that is, the clean-cut employees. In order not to be confused with the left, neo-Nazis combine the gear with purely fascist, right-wing symbols.

A striking example is the international organization of skinheads "Hammerskins" (Hammerskins). In the center of the gear they put the numbers 88 or 14, which are used exclusively in Nazi circles.

Symbols of the ancient Germans

Many Nazi symbols were borrowed from the neo-pagan occult movement that existed in the form of anti-Semitic sects even before the formation of the Nazi parties in Germany and Austria. In addition to the swastika, this symbolism included signs from the pre-Christian era of the history of the ancient Germans, such as "irminsul" and "the hammer of the god Thor."

Irminsul

In the pre-Christian era, many pagans had a tree or pillar in the center of the village, around which religious rites were performed. Among the ancient Germans, such a pillar was called "irminsul". This word consists of the name of the ancient German god Irmin and the word "sul", denoting a pillar. In northern Europe, the name Jörmun, consonant with "Irmin", was one of the names of the god Odin, and many scholars suggest that the Germanic "irminsul" is associated with the World Tree Yggdrasil in Norse mythology.

In 772, the Christian Charlemagne leveled the cult center of the pagans in the sacred grove of Externsteine ​​in what is now Saxony. In the 20s of the XX century, at the suggestion of the German Wilhelm Teudt, a theory arose that the most important Irminsul of the ancient Germans was located there. As evidence, a relief carved in stone by monks of the 12th century was cited. The relief shows the irminsul, bent under the image of St. Nicodemus and the cross - a symbol of the victory of Christianity over paganism.

In 1928 Teudt founded the Society for the Study of Ancient German History, symbolized by the "straightened" Irminsul from the Externstein relief. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Society fell into the sphere of Himmler's interests, and in 1940 became part of the German Society for the Study of Ancient German History and Heritage of Ancestors (Ahnenerbe).

"Ahnenerbe", created by Himmler in 1935, was engaged in the study of the history of Germanic tribes, but the results of studies that did not fit into the National Socialist doctrine of the purity of the race could not be published. The irminsul became the symbol of Ahnenerbe, and many employees of the institute wore small silver jewelry that reproduced the relief image. This sign is still used by neo-Nazis and neo-pagans to this day.

Runes

The Nazis considered the Third Reich a direct successor of the ancient German culture, and it was important for them to prove the right to be called the heirs of the Aryans. In their pursuit of evidence, the runes caught their attention.

Runes are signs of the writing of the pre-Christian era of the peoples who inhabited the north of Europe. Just as the letters of the Latin alphabet correspond to sounds, each runic sign corresponded to a specific sound. Runic writings of various variants have been preserved, carved on stones at different times and in different regions. It is assumed that each rune, like each letter of the alphabet, had its own name. However, everything we know about runic writing is not obtained from primary sources, but from later medieval records and an even later Gothic script, so it is not known whether this information is correct.

One of the problems for Nazi research on runic signs was that there were not too many of these stones in Germany itself. Research was mainly based on the study of stones with runic inscriptions found in the European North, most often in Scandinavia. Scientists supported by the Nazis found a way out: they argued that the half-timbered buildings, widespread in Germany, with their wooden posts and braces that give the building a decorative and expressive appearance, repeat the way the runes were written. It was understood that in such an "architectural and construction way" the people allegedly kept the secret of runic inscriptions. Such a trick led to the discovery in Germany of a huge number of "runes", the meaning of which could be interpreted by the most fantastic way. However, beams or logs in half-timbered structures, of course, cannot be "read" as text. The Nazis solved this problem too. Without any reason, it was announced that in ancient times each individual rune had some hidden meaning, an “image”, which only the initiated could read and understand.

Serious researchers who studied the runes only as writing lost their subsidies because they became "renegades", apostates from Nazi ideology. At the same time, quasi-scientists who adhered to the theory sanctioned from above received significant funds at their disposal. As a result, almost all research work was directed towards finding evidence of the Nazi view of history and, in particular, the search for the ritual meaning of runic signs. In 1942, runes became the official holiday symbols of the Third Reich.

Guido von List

The main representative of these ideas was the Austrian Guido von List. A supporter of the occult, he devoted half his life to the revival of the "Aryan-Germanic" past and was at the beginning of the 20th century a central figure among anti-Semitic societies and associations involved in astrology, theosophy and other occult activities.

Von List was engaged in what in occult circles was called "medium writing": with the help of meditation, he plunged into a trance and in this state "saw" fragments of ancient German history. Coming out of a trance, he wrote down his "visions". Von List argued that the faith of the Germanic tribes was a kind of mystical "natural religion" - Wotanism, which was served by a special caste of priests - "Armans". In his opinion, these priests used runic signs as magical symbols.

Further, the "medium" described the Christianization of Northern Europe and the expulsion of the Armans, who were forced to hide their faith. However, their knowledge did not disappear, and the secrets of the runic signs were preserved by the German people for centuries. With the help of his "supernatural" abilities, von List could find and "read" these hidden symbols everywhere: from the names of German settlements, coats of arms, Gothic architecture, and even the names of different types of pastries.

After an ophthalmic operation in 1902, von List saw nothing for eleven months. It was at this time that he was visited by the most powerful visions, and he created his own "alphabet" or runic row of 18 characters. This series, which had nothing in common with the scientifically accepted, included runes from different times and places. But, despite his anti-science, he greatly influenced the perception of runic signs not only by the Germans in general, but also by the Nazi "scientists" who studied runes in the Ahnenerbe.

The magical meaning that von List attributed to runic writing has been used by the Nazis from the time of the Third Reich to the present day.

Rune of life

"Rune of Life" - the Nazi name for the fifteenth in the Old Norse series and the fourteenth in the series of Viking runes runic sign. Among the ancient Scandinavians, the sign was called "mannar" and denoted a man or a person.

For the Nazis, it meant life and was always used when it came to health, family life or the birth of children. Therefore, the "rune of life" became the emblem of the women's branch of the NSDAP and other women's associations. In combination with a cross inscribed in a circle and an eagle, this sign was the emblem of the Association of German Families, and together with the letter A, the symbol of pharmacies. This rune has replaced the Christian star in newspaper announcements of the birth of children and near the date of birth on tombstones.

The "Rune of Life" was widely used on patches, which were awarded for merit in a variety of organizations. For example, the girls of the Health Service wore this emblem in the form of an oval patch with a red rune on a white background. The same sign was issued to members of the Hitler Youth who had undergone medical training. All physicians initially used the international symbol of healing: the snake and the bowl. However, in the desire of the Nazis to reform society up to the smallest details in 1938 and this sign was replaced. The “Rune of Life”, but on a black background, could also be received by the SS.

Rune of Death

This runic sign, the sixteenth in a series of Viking runes, became known among the Nazis as the "rune of death." The symbol was used to glorify the murdered SS. It replaced the Christian cross in newspaper obituaries and death announcements. He began to be depicted on gravestones instead of a cross. They also put it on the places of mass graves on the fronts of the Second World War.

This sign was also used by Swedish right-wing extremists in the 30s and 40s. For example, the "rune of death" is printed in the announcement of the death of a certain Hans Linden, who fought on the side of the Nazis and was killed on the Eastern Front in 1942.

Modern neo-Nazis, of course, follow the traditions of Nazi Germany. In 1994, in a Swedish newspaper called The Torch of Freedom, an obituary for the death of the fascist Per Engdal was published under this rune. A year later, the newspaper "Valhall and the Future", which was published by the West Swedish Nazi movement NS Gothenburg, under this symbol, published an obituary for the death of Eskil Ivarsson, who in the 30s was an active member of Lindholm's Swedish fascist party. The 21st-century Nazi organization, the Salem Foundation, still sells patches in Stockholm with images of the "life rune", "death rune" and torch.

Rune Hagal

The rune, meaning the sound "x" ("h"), in the ancient runic series and in the newer Scandinavian one looked different. The Nazis used both signs. "Hagal" is an old form of the Swedish "hagel" which means "hail".

The hagal rune was a popular symbol of the völkisch movement. Guido von List invested in this sign a deep symbolic meaning- the connection of man with the eternal laws of nature. In his opinion, the sign called on a person to "embrace the Universe in order to master it." This meaning was borrowed by the Third Reich, where the hagal rune represented absolute faith in Nazi ideology. In addition, an anti-Semitic magazine called Hagal was published.

The rune was used by the SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen on flags and badges. In the Scandinavian form, the rune was depicted on a high award - an SS ring, and also accompanied the weddings of the SS.

In modern times, the rune has been used by the Swedish party Hembygd, the right-wing extremist group Heimdal, and the small Nazi group Popular Socialists.

Rune Odal

The Odal rune is the last, 24th rune of the Old Norse series of runic signs. Its sound corresponds to the pronunciation of the Latin letter O, and the form goes back to the letter "omega" of the Greek alphabet. The name is derived from the name of the corresponding sign in the Gothic alphabet, which resembles the Old Norse "property, land". This is one of the most common signs in Nazi symbols.

Nationalist romanticism XIX centuries, he idealized the simple and close to nature life of the peasants, emphasizing love for his native village and homeland as a whole. The Nazis continued this romantic line, and the Odal rune took on special significance in their "blood and soil" ideology.

The Nazis believed that there was some kind of mystical connection between the people and the land where they live. This idea was formulated and developed in two books written by SS member Walter Darre.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Darré was appointed minister of agriculture. Two years earlier, he had headed a sub-department of the SS, which in 1935 became the state Central Office for Race and Resettlement, the Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (RuSHA), whose task was to put into practice the basic Nazi idea of ​​racial purity. In particular, in this institution they checked the purity of the race of members of the SS and their future wives, it was determined here which children in the occupied territories were sufficiently "Aryan" to be kidnapped and taken to Germany, it was decided here which of the "non-Aryans" should be killed after sexual relationship with a German or a German woman. The symbol of this department was the rune Odal.

The odal was worn on the collars by the soldiers of the SS Volunteer Mountain Division, where they both recruited volunteers and took “ethnic Germans” from the Balkan Peninsula and from Romania by force. During the Second World War, this division operated in Croatia.

Rune Zig

The Zig rune was considered by the Nazis a sign of strength and victory. The ancient Germanic name for the rune was sowlio, which means "sun". The Anglo-Saxon name for the rune sigel also means "sun", but Guido von List mistakenly associated this word with the German word for victory - "sieg" (Sieg). From this mistake arose the meaning of the rune, which still exists among neo-Nazis.

"Zig-rune", as it is called, is one of the most famous signs in the symbolism of Nazism. First of all, because this double sign was worn on the collars of the SS. In 1933, the first such patches, designed in the early 1930s by SS man Walter Heck, were sold by the textile factory of Ferdinand Hoffstatters to SS units at a price of 2.50 Reichsmarks apiece. The honor of wearing a double "zig-rune" on the collars of the uniform was the first to be awarded to part of the personal guard of Adolf Hitler.

They wore a double "zig-rune" in combination with the image of a key and in the SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" formed in 1943, which recruited young people from the organization of the same name. A single "zig-rune" was the emblem of the Jungfolk organization, which taught the basics of Nazi ideology to children from 10 to 14 years old.

Rune Tyr

Rune Tir is another sign that was borrowed by the Nazis from the pre-Christian era. The rune is pronounced like the letter T and also denotes the name of the god Tyr.

The god Tyr was traditionally seen as the god of war, hence the rune symbolized struggle, battle and victory. Graduates of the officer school wore a bandage with the image of this sign on their left arm. The symbol was also used by the 30 January Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division.

A special cult around this rune was created in the Hitler Youth, where all activities were aimed at individual and group rivalry. The Tyr rune reflected this spirit - and meetings of members of the Hitler Youth adorned colossal Tyr runes. In 1937, the so-called "Adolf Hitler Schools" were created, where the most capable students were prepared for important positions in the administration of the Third Reich. The students of these schools wore the double "Tyr rune" as an emblem.

In Sweden in the 1930s, this symbol was used by the Youth of the North, a branch of the Swedish Nazi Party NSAP (NSAP).

The version that it was Hitler who had the brilliant idea to make the swastika a symbol of the National Socialist movement belongs to the Fuhrer himself and was voiced in Mein Kampf. Probably, for the first time, nine-year-old Adolf saw a swastika on the wall of a Catholic monastery near the town of Lambach.

The swastika has been popular since ancient times. A cross with bent ends appeared on coins, household items, coats of arms since the eighth millennium BC. The swastika personified life, the sun, prosperity. Hitler could see the swastika again in Vienna on the emblem of Austrian anti-Semitic organizations.

By christening the archaic solar symbol the Hakenkreuz (Hakenkreuz is translated from German as a hook cross), Hitler assumed the priority of the discoverer, although the idea of ​​​​the swastika as a political symbol took root in Germany before him. In 1920, Hitler, who was an unprofessional and mediocre, but still an artist, allegedly independently designed the party's logo, proposing a red flag with a white circle in the middle, in the center of which a black swastika was rapaciously spreading hooks.

The red color, according to the leader of the National Socialists, was chosen in imitation of the Marxists, who also used it. Seeing the one hundred and twenty thousandth demonstration of the left forces under the scarlet banners, Hitler noted the active influence of the bloody color on the common man. In Mein Kampf, the Fuhrer mentioned the "great psychological significance" of symbols and their ability to powerfully influence emotions. But it was precisely by controlling the emotions of the crowd that Hitler managed to introduce the ideology of his party to the masses in an unprecedented way.

By adding a swastika to the red color, Adolf gave a diametrically opposite meaning to the favorite color scheme of the socialists. By attracting the attention of the workers with the familiar color of the posters, Hitler was "re-recruiting".

The red color in the interpretation of Hitler personified the idea of ​​movement, white - the sky and nationalism, the hoe-shaped swastika - labor and the anti-Semitic struggle of the Aryans. Creative work was mysteriously treated as anti-Semitic.

In general, it is impossible to call Hitler the author of National Socialist symbols, contrary to his statements. He borrowed the color from the Marxists, the swastika and even the name of the party (slightly rearranging the letters) from the Viennese nationalists. The idea of ​​using symbols is also plagiarism. It belongs to the oldest member of the party - a dentist named Friedrich Krohn, who submitted a memorandum back in 1919 to the party leadership. However, in the bible of National Socialism, the book Mein Kampf, the name of the quick-witted dentist is not mentioned.

However, Kron put a different content into the decoding of symbols. The red color of the banner is love for the motherland, the white circle is a symbol of innocence for unleashing the First World War, the black color of the cross is grief over losing the war.

In the interpretation of Hitler, the swastika became a sign of the Aryan struggle against "subhumans". The claws of the cross seem to be aimed at Jews, Slavs, representatives of other peoples who do not belong to the race of "blond beasts".

Unfortunately, the ancient positive sign was discredited by the National Socialists. The Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946 banned Nazi ideology and symbols. The swastika was also banned. AT recent times she is somewhat rehabilitated. Roskomnadzor, for example, admitted in April 2015 that displaying this sign outside of a propaganda context is not an act of extremism. Although the "reprehensible past" cannot be deleted from the biography, the swastika is used by some racist organizations.

The word "swastika" in Sanskrit means the following: "swasti" (स्वस्ति) - greeting, good luck, "su" (सु) in translation means "good, good", and "asti" (अस्ति), which means "to eat, to be ".

Few people now remember that the Swastika was depicted on Soviet money in the period from 1917 to 1923, as a legalized state symbol; that on the sleeve patches of soldiers and officers of the Red Army in the same period there was also a Swastika in a laurel wreath, and inside the Swastika were the letters R.S.F.S.R. There is even an opinion that the Golden Swastika-Kolovrat, as a party symbol, was presented to Adolf Hitler by Comrade I.V. Stalin in 1920. So many legends and conjectures have accumulated around this ancient symbol that we decided to tell in more detail about this oldest solar cult symbol on Earth.

The swastika symbol is a rotating cross with curved ends pointing clockwise or counterclockwise. As a rule, now all over the world all Swastika symbols are called in one word - SWASTIKA, which is fundamentally wrong, because. each Swastika symbol in ancient times had its own name, purpose, Guardian Power and Figurative meaning.

Swastika symbolism, as the most ancient, is most often found during archaeological excavations. More often than other symbols, it was found in ancient burial mounds, on the ruins of ancient cities and settlements. In addition, they were depicted on various details of architecture, weapons, and household utensils of many peoples of the world. Swastika symbolism is ubiquitous in ornamentation, as a sign of Light, Sun, Love, Life. In the West, there was even an interpretation that the Swastika symbol must be understood as an abbreviation of four words starting with the Latin letter “L”: Light - Light, Sun; Love - Love; Life - Life; Luck - Fate, Luck, Happiness (see postcard below).

English speaking greeting card early 20th century

The oldest archaeological artifacts depicting swastika symbols now date back to approximately 4-15 millennium BC. (below is a vessel from the Scythian Kingdom 3-4 thousand BC). According to the materials of archaeological excavations, the richest territory for the use of the swastika, both for religious and cultural purposes, is Russia and Siberia.

Neither Europe, nor India, nor Asia can compare with Russia or Siberia in the abundance of swastika symbols covering Russian weapons, banners, national costumes, household utensils, household and agricultural items, as well as houses and temples. Excavations of ancient burial mounds, cities and settlements speak for themselves - many ancient Slavic cities had a clear shape of the Swastika, oriented to the four cardinal points. This can be seen in the example of Vendogard and others (below is the reconstruction plan of Arkaim).

Plan-reconstruction of Arkaim L.L. Gurevich

The swastika and swastika-solar symbols were the main and, one might even say, almost the only elements of the most ancient Proto-Slavic ornaments. But this does not mean at all that the Slavs and Aryans were bad artists.

Firstly, there were a great many varieties of the image of the Swastika symbols. Secondly, in ancient times, not a single pattern was applied to any object just like that, because each element of the pattern corresponded to a certain cult or security (amulet) value, because. each symbol in the pattern had its own mystical power.

By combining various mystical forces together, white people created a favorable atmosphere around themselves and their loved ones, in which it was easiest to live and create. These were carved patterns, stucco, painting, beautiful carpets woven by industrious hands (see photo below).

Traditional Celtic carpet with swastika pattern

But not only Aryans and Slavs believed in the mystical power of swastika patterns. The same symbols were found on clay vessels from Samarra (the territory of modern Iraq), which date back to the 5th millennium BC.

Swastika symbols in left-handed and right-handed forms are found in the pre-Aryan culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus River basin) and ancient China around 2000 BC.

In Northeast Africa, archaeologists have found a burial stele of the Meroz kingdom, which existed in the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. The fresco on the stele depicts a woman entering the afterlife, and the Swastika flaunts on the clothes of the deceased.

The rotating cross also adorns the golden weights for scales that belonged to the inhabitants of Ashanta (Ghana), and the clay utensils of the ancient Indians, beautiful carpets woven by the Persians and Celts.

Man-made belts created by the Komi, Russians, Sami, Latvians, Lithuanians and other peoples are also filled with swastika symbols, and at present it is difficult even for an ethnographer to figure out which of the peoples to attribute these ornaments to. Judge for yourself.

The swastika symbolism from ancient times has been the main and dominant among almost all peoples on the territory of Eurasia: Slavs, Germans, Mari, Pomors, Skalvians, Curonians, Scythians, Sarmatians, Mordovians, Udmurts, Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Hindus, Icelanders, Scots and many others.

In many ancient Beliefs and religions, the Swastika is the most important and brightest cult symbol. So, in ancient Indian philosophy and Buddhism (below the Foot of the Buddha). The swastika is a symbol of the eternal cycle of the universe, a symbol of the Buddha Law, to which everything that exists is subject. (Dictionary "Buddhism", M., "Republic", 1992); in Tibetan Lamaism - a security symbol, a symbol of happiness and a talisman.

In India and Tibet, the Swastika is depicted everywhere: on the walls and gates of temples (see photo below), on residential buildings, as well as on fabrics in which all sacred texts and tablets are wrapped. Very often, sacred texts from the Book of the Dead are framed with swastika ornaments, which are written on burial covers before kroding (cremation).

At the gate of the Vedic Temple. Northern India, 2000

Warships in the roadstead (in the inland sea). 18th century

You can observe the image of many Swastikas both on an old Japanese engraving of the 18th century (picture above), and on peerless mosaic floors in the halls of the St. Petersburg Hermitage and other places (picture below).

Pavilion Hall of the Hermitage. Mosaic floor. year 2001

But you will not find any reports about this in the media, because they have no idea what the Swastika is, what is the oldest figurative meaning it carries within itself what it has meant for many millennia and means now for the Slavs and Aryans and many peoples inhabiting our Earth.

In these media, alien to the Slavs, the Swastika is called either the German cross, or fascist sign and relegate its image and meaning only to Adolf Hitler, Germany 1933-45, to fascism (National Socialism) and the Second World War.

Modern "journalists", "historians" and guardians of "universal values" seem to have forgotten that the Swastika is the most ancient Russian symbol, that in the past, representatives of the highest authorities, in order to enlist the support of the people, always made the Swastika a state symbol and placed its image on money.

Banknote of 250 rubles of the Provisional Government. 1917

Banknote of 1000 rubles of the Provisional Government. 1917

Banknote of 5000 rubles of the Soviet Government. 1918

Banknote of 10,000 rubles of the Soviet Government. 1918

So did the princes and tsars, the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks, who later seized power from them.

Now, few people know that the matrices of a banknote in denominations of 250 rubles, with the image of the Swastika symbol - Kolovrat - against the background of a double-headed eagle, were made by special order and sketches of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II.

The Provisional Government used these matrices to issue banknotes in denominations of 250, and later 1000 rubles.

Beginning in 1918, the Bolsheviks put into circulation new banknotes in denominations of 5,000 and 10,000 rubles, which depict three Kolovrat Swastikas: two smaller Kolovrats in side ties are intertwined with large numbers 5000, 10,000, and a large Kolovrat is placed in the middle.

But, unlike the 1000 rubles of the Provisional Government, which had the State Duma depicted on the reverse side, the Bolsheviks placed a double-headed eagle on banknotes. Money with the Swastika-Kolovrat was printed by the Bolsheviks and was in use until 1923, and only after the appearance of the banknotes of the USSR, they were withdrawn from circulation.

The authorities of Soviet Russia, in order to get support in Siberia, created in 1918 sleeve patches for the Red Army soldiers of the Southeastern Front, they depicted a Swastika with the abbreviation R.S.F.S.R. inside.

But also acted: Russian Government A.V. Kolchak, calling under the banner of the Siberian Volunteer Corps; Russian emigrants in Harbin and Paris, and then the National Socialists in Germany.

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).

Few people now know that in Germany the National Socialists did not use the Swastika (Swastika), but a symbol similar to it - Hakenkreuz, which has a completely different figurative meaning - a change in the world around and the worldview of a person.

For many millennia, the different inscriptions of swastika symbols have had a powerful influence on the way of life of people, on their psyche (Soul) and subconsciousness, uniting representatives of various tribes for the sake of some bright goal; gave a powerful surge of light divine forces, revealing the internal reserves in people for all-round creation for the benefit of their Clans, in the name of justice, prosperity and well-being of their Fatherland.

At first, only clergymen of various Tribal cults, Religions and religions used it, then representatives of the highest state power - princes, kings, etc., began to use swastika symbols, and after them all kinds of occultists and politicians turned to the Swastika.

After the Bolsheviks completely captured all levels of power, the need for the support of the Soviet regime by the Russian people disappeared, because it is easier to seize the values ​​​​created by the same Russian people. Therefore, in 1923, the Bolsheviks abandoned the Swastika, leaving only the five-pointed star, the Hammer and Sickle as state symbols.

In ancient times, when our Ancestors used, the word Swastikatranslated as Coming from Heaven. Since the Rune - SVA meant Heaven (hence Svarog - Heavenly God), - C - Rune of direction; Runes - TIKA - movement, advent, flow, run. Our children and grandchildren still pronounce the word tick, i.e. run. In addition, the figurative form - TIKA and is now found in everyday words Arctic, Antarctica, mysticism, homiletics, politics, etc.

Ancient Vedic sources tell us that even our galaxy has the shape of a Swastika, and our Yarila-Sun system is located in one of the arms of this Heavenly Swastika. And since we are in the galactic arm, then our entire galaxy (its ancient name- Svasti) is perceived by us as the Perunov Way or the Milky Way.

Any person who loves to look at the night scattering of stars can see the Swastika constellation to the left of the constellation Makosh (B. Ursa) (see below). It shines in the sky, but it has been excluded from modern star charts and atlases.

As a cult and everyday solar symbol that brings happiness, luck, prosperity, joy and prosperity, the Swastika was originally used only among the white people of the Great Race, professing the Old Faith of the First Ancestors - Ynglism, druidic cults of Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia.

The legacy of the Ancestors brought the news that for many millennia the Slavs used the Swastika symbols. They numbered 144 species: Swastika, Kolovrat, Salting, Holy Gift, Svasti, Svaor, Solstice, Agni, Fash, Mara; Inglia, Solar Cross, Solard, Vedara, Svetolet, Fern Flower, Perunov Color, Swati, Race, Bogovnik, Svarozhich, Svyatoch, Yarovrat, Odolen-Grass, Rodimich, Charovrat, etc.

It would be possible to enumerate more, but it is better to consider further briefly a few Solar Swastika symbols: their outline and figurative meaning.

Vedic symbols of the Slavic-Aryans and their meaning

Various variations of the Swastika symbols with no less different meanings are found not only in cult and protective symbols, but also in the form of Runes, which, like letters in ancient times, had their own figurative meaning. So, for example, in the ancient Kh’Aryan Karuna, i.e. Runic alphabet, there were four Runes depicting Swastika elements:

Rune Fash - had a figurative meaning: a powerful, directed, destructive Fiery stream (thermonuclear fire) ...

Rune Agni - had figurative meanings: the Sacred Fire of the hearth, as well as the Sacred Fire of Life, located in the human body, and other meanings ...

Rune Mara - had a figurative meaning: the Ice Flame guarding the Peace of the Universe. The rune of the transition from the World of Reveal to the World of Light Navi (Glory), incarnation in a new Life ... Symbol of Winter and Sleep.

Rune Inglia - had a figurative meaning of the Primary Fire of the Creation of the Universe, from this Fire a lot of different Universes and various forms of Life appeared ...

Swastika symbols carry a huge secret meaning. They have great wisdom. Each Swastika symbol opens before us the Great picture of the universe.

The legacy of the Ancestors says that the knowledge of Ancient Wisdom does not accept a stereotypical approach. The study of ancient symbols and ancient Traditions must be approached with an open heart and a pure Soul.

Not for self-interest, but for knowledge!

Swastika symbols in Russia, for political purposes, were used by all and sundry: monarchists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, but much earlier representatives of the Black Hundred began to use their Swastika, then the Russian Fascist Party in Harbin intercepted the baton. At the end of the 20th century, the Russian National Unity organization began to use the Swastika symbolism (see below).

A knowledgeable person never says that the Swastika is a German or fascist symbol. So they say only the essence of unreasonable and ignorant people, because they reject what they are not able to understand and know, and also try to wishful thinking.

But if ignorant people reject any symbol or any information, this still does not mean that this symbol or information does not exist.

The denial or distortion of truth in favor of some violates the harmonious development of others. Even the ancient symbol of the Majesty of the Fertility of the Mother of the Raw Earth, called SOLARD in ancient times, is considered by some incompetent people to be fascist symbols. A symbol that appeared many thousands of years before the rise of National Socialism.

At the same time, it does not even take into account the fact that RNU's SOLARD is combined with the Star of the Lada-Virgin Mary, where the Divine Forces (Golden Field), the Forces of Primary Fire (red), the Heavenly Forces (blue) and the Forces of Nature (green) united together. The only difference between the original Symbol of Mother Nature and the sign used by the RNU is the multi-color of the Original Symbol of Mother Nature and the two-color of the Russian National Unity.

Ordinary people had their own names for Swastika symbols. In the villages of the Ryazan province, she was called "feather grass" - the embodiment of the Wind; on Pechora - "hare", here the graphic symbol was perceived as a piece of sunlight, a ray, a sunbeam; in some places the Solar Cross was called a “horse”, “horse shank” (horse head), because a long time ago a horse was considered a symbol of the Sun and Wind; were called Swastikas-Solyarniki and "flinters", again, in honor of Yarila-Sun. The people very correctly felt both the Fiery, Fiery Nature of the symbol (Sun) and its Spiritual essence (Wind).

The oldest master of Khokhloma painting, Stepan Pavlovich Veseloe (1903-1993), from the village of Mogushino, Nizhny Novgorod region, following the traditions, painted the Swastika on wooden plates and bowls, calling it “saffron milkshake”, the Sun, and explained: “This is the wind of a blade of grass swaying, moving.”

In the photo you can see swastika symbols even on a carved cutting board.

In the village, to this day, girls and women are dressed in smart clothes and shirts for the holidays, and men - blouses embroidered with swastika symbols of various shapes. Lush loaves and sweet cookies are baked, decorated on top with Kolovrat, Salting, Solstice and other Swastika patterns.

As mentioned earlier, before the second half of the 20th century, the main and almost the only patterns and symbols that existed in Slavic embroidery were Swastika ornaments.

But in the second half of the 20th century, in America, Europe and the USSR, they began to decisively eradicate this Solar symbol, and they eradicated it in the same way as they had previously eradicated: the ancient folk Slavic and Aryan Culture; ancient Faith and folk traditions; the true Heritage of the Ancestors, undistorted by the rulers, and the long-suffering Slavic people, the bearer of the ancient Slavic-Aryan Culture.

And even now, the same people or their descendants are trying to ban any kind of rotating Solar Crosses, but using different pretexts: if earlier this was done under the pretext of class struggle and anti-Soviet conspiracies, now it is a fight against the manifestation of extremist activity.

For those who are not indifferent to the ancient Native Great Russian Culture, several typical patterns of Slavic embroidery of the 18th-20th centuries are given. On all enlarged fragments you can see the Swastika symbols and ornaments for yourself.

The use of swastika symbols in ornaments in the Slavic lands is simply incalculable. They are used in the Baltic States, Belarus, the Volga region, Pomorie, Perm, Siberia, the Caucasus, the Urals, Altai and Far East and other regions.

Academician B.A. Rybakov called the Solar symbol - Kolovrat - a link between the Paleolithic, where it first appeared, and modern ethnography, which provides innumerable examples of swastika patterns in fabrics, embroidery and weaving.

But after the Second World War, in which Russia, as well as all the Slavic and Aryan peoples suffered huge losses, the enemies of the Aryan and Slavic Culture began to equate fascism and the Swastika.

The Slavs used this Solar sign throughout their existence

Streams of lies and fictions regarding the Swastika overflowed the cup of absurdity. "Russian teachers" in modern schools, lyceums and gymnasiums in Russia teach children that the Swastika is a German fascist cross, made up of four letters "G", denoting the first letters of the leaders of Nazi Germany: Hitler, Himmler, Goering and Goebbels (sometimes it is replaced by Hess ).

Listening to teachers, one might think that Germany during the time of Adolf Hitler used exclusively the Russian alphabet, and not at all the Latin script and the German Runic.

Is there at least one Russian letter "G" in German surnames: HITLER, HIMMLER, GERING, GEBELS (HESS) - no! But the flow of lies does not stop.

Swastika patterns and elements have been used by the peoples of the Earth over the past 10-15 thousand years, which is confirmed even by archaeologists.

Ancient thinkers said more than once: "Two misfortunes hinder human development: ignorance and ignorance." Our Ancestors were knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and therefore used various Swastika elements and ornaments in everyday life, considering them as symbols of the Yarila-Sun, Life, Happiness and prosperity.

In general, only one symbol was called the Swastika. This is an equilateral cross with curved short rays. Each beam has a ratio of 2:1.

Only narrow-minded and ignorant people can denigrate everything pure, bright and expensive that remains among the Slavic and Aryan peoples.

Let's not be like them! Do not paint over the Swastika symbols in the ancient Slavic Temples and Christian temples, on the Images of the Wise Ancestors.

Do not destroy, at the whim of ignoramuses and Slav-haters, the so-called "Soviet staircase", the mosaic floor and ceilings of the Hermitage or the domes of the Moscow St. Basil's Cathedral just because they have been painted for hundreds of years various versions of the Swastika.

Everyone knows that the Slavic prince Prophetic Oleg nailed his shield to the gates of Tsargrad (Constantinople), but few now know what was depicted on the shield. However, a description of the symbolism of his shield and armor can be found in historical chronicles (Figure of the Prophetic Oleg shield below).

Prophetic people, i.e., possessing the gift of Spiritual Foresight and knowing the Ancient Wisdom, which was left to people, were endowed by the Priests with various symbols. One of these most notable people was the Slavic prince - Prophetic Oleg.

In addition to being a prince and an excellent military strategist, he was also a high-level priest. The symbolism, which was depicted on his clothes, weapons, armor and the princely banner, tells about this in all the detailed images.

The Fiery Swastika (symbolizing the land of the Ancestors) in the center of the nine-pointed Star of Inglia (the symbol of the Faith of the First Ancestors) was surrounded by the Great Kolo (Circle of Patron Gods), which radiated eight rays of Spiritual Light (the eighth degree of Priestly initiation) to the Svarog Circle. All this symbolism spoke of the enormous Spiritual and physical strength that is directed to protect the Native Land and the Holy Old Faith.

They believed in the Swastika as a talisman that "attracts" good luck and happiness. In Ancient Russia, it was believed that if you draw Kolovrat on the palm of your hand, you will definitely be lucky. Even modern students draw the Swastika on the palm of their hand before exams. The swastika was also painted on the walls of the house so that happiness reigned there, this exists in Russia, and in Siberia, and in India.

For those readers who wish to receive more information about the Swastika, we recommend Roman Vladimirovich Bagdasarov's Ethno-Religious Studies "SWASTIKA: A Sacred Symbol".

One generation replaces another, state systems and regimes collapse, but as long as the People remember their Ancient Roots, honor the traditions of their Great Ancestors, preserve their Ancient culture and symbols, until that time the People are ALIVE and will LIVE!

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