IT IS NOT A NAZI SYMBOL!
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Before You Judge, Understand Why
Before You Hurt Someone, Feel
Before You Speak, Think
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| Absurd - Asgardsrei, (Remixed & Remastered, 2012). |
“Symbols are a language that can help us understand our past. As the saying goes a symbol says a thousand words...but which words? Understanding our past determines actively...our ability to understand the present, So how do we sift truth from belief? , How do we write our own histories, personally or culturally... and thereby define ourselves? , How do we penetrate years, centuries, of historical distortion...to find original truth?” - Robert Langdon, The Da Vinci Code
When most people think of the Swastika (Fylfot, Fyrfos) their initial thought is it's appropriation by the Third Reich under the National Socialists. This blip in history has severely tainted the beautiful image and meaning of this most sacred of symbols.The more thinking people think of Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Amerindian spirituality.
And, whilst this is true, few are aware in the wider world of its usage, significance and utmost importance (in a completely not racist context) to European people in regard to their Native Faiths of Europe - namely, Druidism, Odinism (Asatru) and Rodnovery (Родноверие), where it plays a role of significant importance in these respective indigenous spiritualities.
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It is NOT a Nazi symbol - It is SO much more!
The use of it by the National Socialists was a blip in the history of this symbol, and in the grand scheme of things, rather insignificant.
Linked below are pages from Wikipedia to explain the history of the symbol and how simply linking it to Nazism is beyond ignorant.
This symbol should be judged in the context it which it is used and not ignorantly assuming it is Nazi related.Within Odinism and Rodnovery, both the left and right facing Swastikas are generally used interchangeably. The significance of the direction of the Swastika is dependent on the individual and/or the group using it, but it also must be noted that their may be no significance whatsoever in the direction, just personal preference.
Examples of this sacred symbol can be found all over the world, many being hundreds of thousands of years old. A significant number can be found in Britain alone which are thousands of years old (see image links marked below)
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| Germanic pagan Edda. Printed in Stockholm, 1877. |
British Churches also use it! (again, see the image links marked below).
In India it is displayed all over the place. Equally, it is also displayed all over the place openly in Slavic nations today because of what it represents to their pagan religion.
I hope you find the below interesting and educational.
This symbol isn't only sacred to Hindus, Shinto's, Jainists, or Amerindians, as you always here, it is also very important to Odinists, Druids and Rodnovers alike.
Their are many more pictures below relating to its use in Churches, Pre-Christianity, and modern usage.
* Reclaiming One of Our Holy Symbols
The two below pages are from the book Awakening: The Rise of Western Civilization - Volume I of the March of the Titans Quadilogy
The two below pages are from the book Awakening: The Rise of Western Civilization - Volume I of the March of the Titans Quadilogy
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| Veleslav - within Slavic Rodnovery |
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| Temple at Slavic Rodnovery festival |
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| Midsummer Wreath within Odinism |
There is also a new documentary coming out about this called My Swastika that wants to reclaim it. Apparently, will also focus on Odinism and Rodnovery as the importance of it can be seen in these photos from the Kupala festival of Rodnovery Native Faith.
I do hope that this production will not only focus on Buddhism, Hinduism, and Native Americanism, etc, but also on the importance and magnitude of the symbol to Odinists (Germanic Neopaganism) and Rodnovers (Slavic Neopaganism) where is plays a massive and central role. This is an ancient symbol of heathenism in pre-christian Europe and is overwhelmingly used by us in a positive and open way. I hope they do look into this and not just the usual cultures.
FYLFOT IMAGES
For a small selection if images and information on Pre-Christian Fylfots within the British Isles see here.
For some images and information of Fylfots found within British Churches and Cathedrals see here.
For British use of the Fylfot in the early 20th century see here.
POEM: Glory of Sacral Fylfot Rising
This video is meant to educate the public as to the sacred qualities of the Fylfot or Swastika. We must reclaim our holy symbols and try to undo the damage done by those who would pervert Germanic and European culture.
FYLFOT IMAGES
For a small selection if images and information on Pre-Christian Fylfots within the British Isles see here.
For some images and information of Fylfots found within British Churches and Cathedrals see here.
For British use of the Fylfot in the early 20th century see here.
See also the Facebook group: Reclaim Our Banner Swastika - Truth Within Pan-European Paganism
http://http:/www.fylfotfile.co.uk
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/vikheraldry.shtml
http://www.proswastika.org
http://www.swastika-info.com
http://reclaimtheswastika.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Historical_use_in_the_West
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika_(Germanic_Iron_Age)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in_the_early_20th_century
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| Jyrinah Swastika, Odinism |
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Msciwoj Słowianin and Joanna Gacparska (Joanna Żywia)
(whom features in the above mentioned documentary) pictured here at Jare Gody 2012
'Słowiańska Wiara', Slęża Mountain (Poland)
Ms. Gacparska - (interview) pagan priestess of 'Zachodniosłowiańskiego Związku Wyznaniowego' - Słowiańska Wiara (Zachodniosłowiańskiego Religious Alliance - Slavic Faith). See Mr. Słowianin's clothing in the above picture. |
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| Joanna Gacparska (Joanna Żywia) - (interview) pagan priestess of 'Zachodniosłowiańskiego Związku Wyznaniowego' - Słowiańska Wiara (Zachodniosłowiańskiego Religious Alliance - Slavic Faith). See features in the above mentioned documentary. Pictured here wearing the Tursaansydän. |
RODNOVERY
The Importance of the Swastika and Kolovrat in Rodnovery here in Russian (English translation), here in Russian (English translation) and here in Russian.
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| Click to enlarge to see Thor's belt buckle. 'Thor's Battle Against the Jötnar' (1872) by Mårten Eskil Winge. Also, A perfect large image of this can be found here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Thor.jpg from the Wikipedia Thor article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor |
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Rafał Merski of Watra
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Kolovrat (Коловрат)
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The kolovrat [spinning wheel] represents the Sun and is a symbol of the god Svarog. It represents strength, dignity, sun and fire. It is a symbol of secular as well as spiritual power. "Kolo" means wheel, and its "vrat" [spokes] are turning. The kolovrat represents the endless cycle of birth and deaths. [Each turn of] the wheel is a cycle of life in our world. (translated from the below image)
This website, as well as many others to my knowledge, have been asked to re-post this message below:
I think excellent websites such as this one, proswastika.org, reclaimtheswastika.com, and swastika-info.c
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Alemannic or Bavarian brooches (Zierscheiben) incorporating a swastika symbol at the center with a varying number of rays.
left image: Bavarian (Bronze-Zierscheiben bajuwarisch), http://www.museum-haag.de/museum/geschos1.htm (Haag museum) or http://www.museum-haag.de/das-museum/rundgang-durchs-museum/erstes-stockwerk alternative link at Haag;
right image: Bronze zierscheiben, 6th to 8th century AD, from Fützen (Blumberg), http://www.jadu.de/mittelalter/germanen/gk/pages/zierscheiben_jpg.htm (Jadu article).
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Alemannic brooches with designs reminiscent of the Wewelsburg symbol.
Left image: decorative brooch found in Inzing, Innsbruck-Land, dated to ca. AD 400,
from Hermann Wirth, ‘’ ‘Die heilige Urschrift der Menschheit’ ‘’, Leipzig 1936,
BD. II, Bilderatlas, Tafel 42 (at the time kept in the Staatl. Museen Berlin.)
Right image: Migration age Alemannic decorative brooch, from Hans-Joachim Diesner,
‘’ ‘Die Völkerwanderung’ ‘’, Gütersloh 1980, used on the title cover of a 1982 Artgemeinschaft.
Additional references: http://www.derhain.de/SchwarzeSonne.html and http://www.artfond.de/schwarzesonne.htm |
For more information please see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Sun_(occult_symbol)&diff=265068682&oldid=264733051#Historical_background
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Bavaria, Germany 7th century (Book: Frühgeschichte Bayerns; Wilfried Menghin; 1990.) Sluneční symboly, 7. století.
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Tursaansydän
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Крыница
Taken from this video: http://www.youtube.com/
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| Veleslav, from the documentary "Купала (Kupala) - Возвращение к традиции (Return to Tradition)" from 2006. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWBXysz3WEk |
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| Odinist blot. |
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| Odinit Blot |
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| Another image of Rodoslav from the band Krynitza. |
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| http://svasticross.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/swastika-manwoman.html |
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Beautiful blog! So much wonderful information here - thank you so much for posting this!
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ReplyDeleteI have a question, Inrodnovery, Are people pretty "racist" on gay etc..
Because I see a lot of videos on this subject the people Rodnoverie practitioners.
Thank you in advance.
No more than any other faith, but that is the individual, not Odinism or Rodnovery itself.
DeleteI value your effort to shed light on the western ignorance over the swastika, but these banners saying 'heritage not hate' are very annoying, pff we don't have to explain anything, we don't have to apologize or give any explanation on why we're wearing a sacred symbol of our culture, the swastika is the oldest known aryan symbol, it appears in all indo-european cultures and religions, today the aryan tribes in the middle east like the kalash people of pakistan and the kurds of afghanistan still use swastikas in their religious rituals, for example the art on this kalash door frame looks a lot with slavic pagan art http://www.flickr.com/groups/kalashapeople/pool/79811798@N03/?view=lg both the original polytheistic aryan pagan religions like asatru, rodnovery, brahmanism, and the variations like buddhism and zoroastrianism, I've seen some guy saying that he doesn't understand how someone can wear a symbol responsible for the genocide of his people, well if we follow this logic, the star of david should have been banned millenia ago, how many people died under this symbol? go ask the palestinians what they think of this symbol, just because someone made something bad wearing some symbol it doesn't mean that the symbol is bad, everyone know this, this is common sense we don't have to keep explaining the history of the swastika all the time, to everyone passing by in the streets, how many attempts of genocides, ethnic cleansings and wars have happened and are happening in the world? this always existed in all cultures, the jews aren't saints on this subject to talk about the swastika, I say if some people don't like us this is their problem, I'm not going to stop wearing a sacred symbol of my culture just because someone is offended, if there's any genocide happening today it's against the aryans, the aryan tribes in the middle east being islamized by force, like the poor nuristanis of kafiristan, and killed en masse like the kurds, being opressed like europeans were christianized by force, here in the western world it's worse because, there's all this moral terrorism toward us that we need sites like yours to explain to the world why we aren't wrong in existing, it appears that we can't celebrate our culture and heritage, and we should be ashamed of being whites, otherwise we are evil nazis. these people who claim that the swastika is a hate symbol aren't even worth my time. it seems that people are uncomfortable even with the fact of we being around, showing pride of who we are then... if people hate whites just for the fact of we existing maybe they're the 'racists'
ReplyDeleteAnd concerning the nazis, well aryans aren't nazis (I'm not nazi for wearing a swastika) but the nazis were aryans, as germans they were part of a branch of the Indo-European ethno-linguistic group, and as so they had all the right to use swastikas, however nazism was nothing but a political movement in a certain part of the world in a certain time in history, they didn't made the swastika, it wasn't invented by them, so of course it's not a nazi symbol, and it's completely stupid to affirm that it is, furthermore the association of the nazis with racism, and therefore people who use swastikas as racists, is very stupid and I'll explain why, I often hear from people that the nazis wanted to exterminate all the "lesser races" and leave only the aryan race in the world, or that they preached that the aryan race is the superior race, well if that were true the nazis wouldn't have made alliances with many asian peoples, the wehrmacht itself was a pluralistic army, its unities in africa had african soldiers, in asia had asian soldiers, people from various countries joined the germans, race was the lesser of the reasons of the ww2 it was a war of politics, yes the nazis cared about race, they recognized the Indo-Europeans as a distinct ethnic group, the existence of the aryan race, who has the right to a land of it's own, what they wanted was to guarantee the european homeland for the aryans, they believed that the jews were using the aryans for their zionist schemes, that's why they invaded russia, they believed the jews were using bolshevism to exploit the russians and later the rest of europe, the nazis didn't persecute the jews just because they were jewish but because they believed that they were enemies of the aryans, it wasn't because of their race but because of what the nazis believed they were doing, yes the nazis commited many horrible mistakes but also everything they did for the germanic people, and the aryan people in general was wonderful, look up om the internet how the germans helped people where they passed, in nepal, middle east, they recovered the true essence of the ancient germanic peoples with their socialism and
ReplyDelete'welfare state' type of govenrment, and most importantly they recovered the original germanic pagan faith which was seen as nothing but barbaric in europe, they recovered many germanic concepts like the nine noble virtues, the aryan peoples always cared about race, the anglo saxons called the native celts 'wealh' which means foreigner, and intermarriage with them was prohibited by law, opposing race mixing has always been part of the aryan cultures, obviously, after all if the white race still exists it's not thanks to race mixing, the caste system in India for example, it doesn't make a person evil, it's not hate if someone wants to preserve their race, this thing of racism always existed in all over the world, have you seen how some rabbis referred to gentiles in the talmud? or how the epyptians treated their slaves? no more than animals, the anglo saxons called the britons shameful persons and said they were weak and inferior