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... Text to be formatted | Images to be added [ CD-Rom Home ] Full PDF online at Internet Archive Report of National Museum, 1894. The Swastika The Earliest Known Symbol, and its Migrations; With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times.Thomas Wilson Curator, U.s . National Museum of Anthropology and Prehistory. Table of Contents Preface Definitions, Description, and Origin Dispersion of the Swastika, Forms Allied to the Swastika. The Cross Among the American Indians. Significance of the Swastika. The Migration of Symbols. Historic Objects Associated with the Swastika, Found in Both Hemispheres and Believed to Have Been Passed by Migration. Similar Prehistoric Arts, Industries ...
2. Let There be Darkness: The Reign of the Swastika by Lewis M. Greenberg [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon V:2 (Apr 1998) Home | Issue Contents Let There be Darkness: The Reign of the Swastika by Lewis M. Greenberg (KRONOS Press, Wynnewood, PA., 1997) Reviewed by Ken Moss Lewis Greenberg has written a most interesting account of the origins of the swastika and how this ancient symbol was used and later abused by Adolf Hitler. As his prologue succinctly puts it: "[ O ]ne of humankind's oldest symbols [has been] tainted- perhaps forever" and "transmogrified into an icon of terror and hate." The author is no stranger either to myself or, probably, to most AEON readers, since ...
3. The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika [Journals] [Aeon]
... From: Aeon IV:5 (Nov 1996) Home | Issue Contents The Cosmic Origin of the Swastika Dwardu Cardona See Note * below. 1. SATURN In Sanskrit, the emblem we know as the swastika is called pramantha. The word also means "fire-drill". (1 ) According to Robert Graves, it is this Sanskrit word that lies behind the name of the Greek Prometheus. In Greek, "Prometheus" means "forethought" but, according to Graves, the name may really have originated "in a Greek misunderstanding of the Sanskrit word pramantha, the swastika, or fire-drill, which he had supposedly invented, since Zeus Prometheus at Thurii was shown ...
4. The Area of Origin [Books]
... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER I THE SWASTIKA SECTION I The Area of Origin Swastika as a "luck symbol " - Meaning of "luck " - Various readings of symbol - Problem of Distribution -Not found in Ancient Egypt or Ancient Mesopotarnia - Late introduction into Africa- Hittite and Phrygian swastikas - Found in Cyprus and Troy - On early Elamite pottery - Swastika as a Christian cross - As a Celtic goddess symbol - Survivals in Modern Europe - Aryan origin theory - Migrations of swastika -Egyptian "Winged Disc" and swastika - Distribution of swastika in America - The octopusand swastika. Which symbol has of recent years ...
5. The Area of Origin [Books]
... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents CHAPTER I THE SWASTIKA SECTION I The Area of Origin Swastika as a "luck symbol " - Meaning of "luck " - Various readings of symbol - Problem of Distribution -Not found in Ancient Egypt or Ancient Mesopotarnia - Late introduction into Africa- Hittite and Phrygian swastikas - Found in Cyprus and Troy - On early Elamite pottery - Swastika as a Christian cross - As a Celtic goddess symbol - Survivals in Modern Europe - Aryan origin theory - Migrations of swastika -Egyptian "Winged Disc" and swastika - Distribution of swastika in America - The octopusand swastika. Which symbol has of recent years ...
6. Let There be Darkness: The Reign Of The Swastika [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... From: SIS Internet Digest 1997:2 (Feb 1998) Home | Issue Contents World Wide Web focus Let There be Darkness: The Reign Of The Swastika http://www.knowledge.co.uk/xxx/cat/swastika/ANNOUNCING: A new series of books sponsored by Cosmos & Chronos. Volume I now available Let There Be Darkness: The Reign Of The Swastika, By Professor Lewis Greenberg Coins from Knossos showing a star-like, or sun-like rosette in the centre of the swastika A handsome book, edited and formatted by Dwardu Cardona under the auspices of Cosmos and Chronos, this work by Professor Lewis Greenberg traces the history of the swastika, ...
... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents SECTION III Beliefs Connected with the Cross and the Swastika Swastika and gods of the cardinal points - Various symbols used like swastika - Various forms of swastika - Importance of cardinal points in ancient religions - Posts or pillars of cardinal points - Nile flowing from sky - Ancient Stellar cult - Egyptian, Chinese, Semitic and Celtic crosses - Mexican concepts - Greek augurs looked North and Latin augurs looked South - Hindu gods of four quarters - North east and gods-Scandinavian East - Odin looks North - Pyramids and cardinal points - Mesopotamian Ziggurats and cardinal points - Chinese system - Internal Organs connected with cardinal ...
... From: The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs Home | Issue Contents SECTION III Beliefs Connected with the Cross and the Swastika Swastika and gods of the cardinal points - Various symbols used like swastika - Various forms of swastika - Importance of cardinal points in ancient religions - Posts or pillars of cardinal points - Nile flowing from sky - Ancient Stellar cult - Egyptian, Chinese, Semitic and Celtic crosses - Mexican concepts - Greek augurs looked North and Latin augurs looked South - Hindu gods of four quarters - North east and gods-Scandinavian East - Odin looks North - Pyramids and cardinal points - Mesopotamian Ziggurats and cardinal points - Chinese system - Internal Organs connected with cardinal ...
9. The Night of the Gods Vol II [Books]
... .. . .. . 597 The Wheel-God .. . .. . 60o The Shoes of Swiftness .. . 620 Buddha's Fo0tprint .. . 624 The Three Steps .. . 633 The Legs o' Man .. . 635 The Chakra as Wheel of the Law .. . .. . .. . 640 The Swastika .. . .. . .. . 649 The Wheel of Fortune .. . 605 The Glyph Ra .. . .. . 610 The Wreath ' .. . .. . 613 The Romaunt of the Rose .. . 614 CHAPTER II. Buddha's Footprint. The Labyrinth .. . The Doric Fret .. ...
... [ CD-Rom Home ] The Migration of Symbols and their Relation to Beliefs and Customs by Donald A. Mackenzie Author of Ancient Man in Britain, Myths of Pre-Columbian America, etc Contents Foreward Chapter The Swastika Section I: The Area of Origin Section II: As the Cross of the Cardinal Points Section III: Beliefs Connected with the Cross and the Swastika The Spiral Section I: Was the Spiral a Symbol or an Art-Motif? Section II: Whirlpools and Whirlwinds Section III: The Celestial Whirlpool Lake Section IV: The Spiral and Birth Section V: The Sacred Circuit Ear Symbols Tree Symbols LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1. Bride Baby 2. Lapland Swastika 3. Celtic Knot Swastika 4 ...
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