Re: Oops

On Sep 29, 6:35 am, Jack Linthicum <jacklinthi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Sep 28, 6:13 am, "William Black" <william.bl...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:





"Dennis" <tsalagiNOS...@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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William Black wrote:

As many have noted, the swastika doesn't have the negative
connotation the Nazis gave it in many other cultures. The Falun Gong
movement in China currently has it in their symbol - which strikes me
as rather bad PR.

India is a touch scary if you twitch when ever you see a swastika.

They everywhere.

They're on just about every Hindu temple for a start.

The big home water tank company is called 'Swastic tanks' and stamps
one on all its products...

I didn't know it was that extensive. I suppose that's why Falun
Gong wasn't too worried about it. Apparently the swastika is the symbol
of the Hindu god Ganesh.

Not specifically.

It certainly wasn't that prevalent when I was at the Ganpatai festival last
year in Bombay.

And it's on temples where there isn't a representation of Ganesh, who is
mainly a Bombay deity.

--
William Black

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.

During WWII the spokesmen for the Native Americans said that Hitler
had turned the good luck symbol of the swastika around, thereby
reversing its purpose. The Wiki article on swastikas seems ambivalent
and indecisive.

The existence in the Americas is based on its origin as a simple
example of decoration on a basket.

From what I've read, it was a symbol meaning motion of continual
motion. Depictions of Medusa have swastikas and they have been found
in the ruins of Troy. Many are reversed from the Nazi one, but not
all...and I don't think anyone knows if the direction had any meaning.


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