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In Armenia the swastika is called the "arevakhach" and "kerkhach" (Armenian: կեռխաչ) [90] [dubious – discuss] and is the ancient symbol of eternity and eternal light (i.e. God). Swastikas in Armenia were found on petroglyphs from the copper age, predating the Bronze Age.
A comb with a sauwastika found in Nydam Mose in Denmark, dating to the 3rd or 4th century CE. Two swastikas and two sauwastikas in an ornament of a bucket found with the Oseberg ship (ca. AD 800) The swastika on the Snoldelev Stone, Denmark (9th century) The Sæbø sword with runes and a swastika symbol on one side of the blade.
The aviator Matilde Moisant wearing a swastika square medallion in 1912. The symbol was popular as a good luck charm with early aviators. The discovery of the Indo-European language group in the 1790s led to a great effort by European archaeologists to link the pre-history of European people to the hypothesised ancient "Aryans" (variously referring to the Indo-Iranians or the Proto-Indo ...
Swastika: Swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक), and denotes "conducive to well being or auspicious". In Hinduism, the clockwise symbol is called swastika symbolizing surya (sun), prosperity, and good luck, while the counterclockwise symbol is called sauvastika symbolizing night or tantric aspects of Kali.
Picture of an urn from 1941 and the coat of arms of Litzmannstadt (occupied Łódź), based on the swastika from the urn. [1]The funerary urn was discovered in 1936 in a grave field in the village of Biała in the Łódź Voivodeship (then Brzeziny county) and is dated to the turn of the 2nd and 3rd century (Przeworsk period), less frequently a century older.
The swastika was the first symbol of Nazism and remains strongly associated with it in the Western world. The 20th-century German Nazi Party made extensive use of graphic symbols , especially the swastika , notably in the form of the swastika flag , which became the co-national flag of Nazi Germany in 1933, and the sole national flag in 1935.
President Joe Biden put a bow on the end of night one in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention.He spoke to the crowd gathered in the United Center for just under an hour. The convention ...
Thor's Fight with the Giants (Tors strid med jättarna) by Mårten Eskil Winge (1872).. Thor (from Old Norse: Þórr) is a prominent god in Germanic paganism.In Norse mythology, he is a hammer-wielding god associated with lightning, thunder, storms, sacred groves and trees, strength, the protection of humankind, hallowing, and fertility.