the word "swastika"

"The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix.

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An ancient cosmic or religious symbol formed by a Greek cross with the ends of the arms bent at right angles in either a clockwise or a counterclockwise direction.

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During 3000 years, the image of the swastika was used by many cultures around the world, including in China, Japan, India, and southern Europe. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well known, if not commonly used, symbol but was called by many different names:

• China - wan



• England - fylfot



• Germany - Hakenkreuz



• Greece - tetraskelion and gammadion



• India - swastika

Some sources indicate that the Chinese Empress Wu of the Tang Dynasty decreed that the swastika would be used as an alternative symbol of the sun.

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In Japan, the swastika is called manji. Since the Middle Ages, it has been used as a family coat of arms. On Japanese maps, a swastika (left-facing and horizontal) is used to mark the location of a Buddhist temple. The right-facing manji is often referred as the gyaku manji (卍, lit. "reverse manji"), and can also be called kagi jūji, literally "hook cross".

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When Hitler created a flag for the Nazi party, he sought to incorporate both the swastika and "those revered colors expressive of our homage to the glorious past and which once brought so much honor to the German nation" .In the swastika the mission of the struggle for the victory of the Aryan man, and, by the same token, the victory of the idea of creative work, which as such always has been and always will be anti-Semitic. "

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By thous text it is true people are using swastika as their goodness from thousend years in whole univers. How it was took place in human mind it has no correct answer but people bileve it’s bring happyness or any postive thing in their life.