Swastika Trivia.......

[Jbb]

I never knew......:eek:
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ThatÂ’s The Swastikas, a Canadian girlsÂ’ hockey team from Edmonton circa 1916. Before it became associated with the Nazis, swastikas had been used for hundreds of years as a symbol of good luck and prosperity:
For many millenia, before it was appropriated by the Nazis, the swastika was a symbol of good luck and prosperity. Almost every race, religion and continent honored the swastika — a perfect example of the universal spread of a symbol thru the collective unconscious used by American Indians, Hindus, Buddhists, Vikings, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Mayans, Aztecs, Persians, Christians, and neolithic tribes. There are even Jewish swastikas found in ancient synagogues side-by-side with the star of David!
The swastika was associated with the hammer of Thor which returned to him like a boomerang, the footprints of Buddha, the emblem of Shiva, Apollo, Jupiter, and even Jesus Christ! The swastika was the first Christian symbol and is found in the catacombs in Rome. Hindus and Buddhists to this day still revere the swastika as their sacred sign. Jains make the sign of the swastika similar to the Christian sign of the cross.
In the early part of the twentieth century Rudyard Kipling used the swastika as his coat-of-arms, Coca Cola made a swastika-shaped lucky watch fob,American pilots used it on their planes when they fought for the French in World War One, it was the symbol for the Ladies Home Journal sponsored GirlsÂ’ Club and the Boy Scouts. A town in Ontario was named Swastika in 1911 because of a lucky gold strike.

[Mardonzi]

I'm struck by the lack of black ladies on that Canadian hockey team. Coincidence?
No coincedence,,, but I notice that the coach has a striking resebelence to the pics I've seen of Tom Brown...... Coincidence???:idea:

[Tom Brown]

It turns out, Charles Manson is a big Canadian women's hockey fan.

[Cigalert]

The first used swastikas were found in india a little over 3000 years ago. Swastikas were placed above doorways and on the floor before doorways in India. Wether it be left-handed or right-handed there is no significant meaning. The four arms of the cross are known as `the four arms of Vishnu', the Supreme Deity in Vedic times who later became the `preserver' in the Hindu Trinity. Vishnu's role is to maintain order, balance, and cohesion throughout the created universe. This is the `mystic cross' which later found its way into all religions with certain modifications as the Egyptian Cross, the Chinese Tau, the Cross of the Rosicrucians and the Christian cross. And yes there is one above a doorway in the lower levels of the catacombs in vatican city. I took a picture of it and I was little confused. My best man in my wedding is Jain. I've been listening to his propaganda for years "yeah, you know that swastika thing....we invented it". Those original indian's aren't smart enought to start casino's....what makes them think they can just go around inventing symbols.

[fat rat]

Your tax dollars at work: The US Navy will be spending about $600,000 to redesign or camouflage a 1960s barracks building in San Diego because of complaints that it looks like a swastika when viewed from the air. In the past this might have been a problem only for the occasional air traveler who happened over Coronado island, but with the advent of aerial mapping and visualization tools like Google Earth, everyone can see anything from the sky. In fact, many people have made a game out of finding oddities in satellite photos.
Now it's one thing to see landmarks like this and snicker over a designer's missteps 40 years ago (the Navy says it noticed the shape but that it didn't think anyone would see it from above), but it's another thing altogether to complain to the Navy about the shape of a building when viewed from space. But people really seem to have the time on their hands: The Navy says it's been inundated with complaints; enough, I suppose, to justify spending that much money on new structures and extra bushes. It's the first known case of its kind.
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[OGShocker]

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They should put a circle around it.:idea:

[fat rat]

They should put a circle around it.:idea:
LOL......:D