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In all these cultures, swastika symbols do not appear to occupy any marked position or significance, appearing as just one form of a series of similar symbols of varying complexity. In the Zoroastrian religion of Persia, the swastika was a symbol of the revolving sun, infinity, or continuing creation.
Postcard sent in June 1910. This card was among those made by the Stanford Card Co. in Brooklyn, New York. [1]The swastika (from Sanskrit svástika) is an ancient Eurasian religious symbol that generally takes the form of an equilateral cross with four legs each bent at 90 degrees in either right-facing (卐) form or left-facing (卍) form.
[1] Exceptions to this include characters in certain writing systems that are also in use as political or religious symbols, such as 卐 (U+5350), the swastika encoded as a Chinese character (although it is also encoded as a religious symbol at U+0FD5); or ॐ (U+0950), the Om symbol which is, strictly speaking, a Devanagari ligature.
This category contains articles related to the swastika, an ancient symbol. Pages in category "Swastika" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. ...
The word "swastika" itself was appropriated into English from Sanskrit in the late 19th century. [24] However, the word and symbol continue to have major religious significance for Buddhists, Hindus, Jains and other eastern faiths.
We are trying to eliminate any unwarranted hostility toward any person displaying this for their religious purposes." The swastika is the ancient East Asian symbol appropriated as the emblem of ...
The equilateral cross with its legs bent at right angles is a millennia-old sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism that represents peace and good fortune, and was also used widely by ...
There are many variations of the symbol in use currently. However, they do not show all the fundamental concepts embedded in the current emblem. For example, JAINA in North America uses a modified version of the standard Jain symbol. It replaces the swastika with Om because the swastika is associated with Nazi Germany there. [4]