the original owners apparently chose it in the 1900 s for its meaning of peace and good fortune.
If you don't like the name you go. I'm staying
A pretty little street in an ugly mess.
So the residents of swastika trail may find out about the fate of that name
when the issue goes before City Council tomorrow.
but whatever happens, the name is more widespread then you might think
It's a name that's linked to bigotry, intolerance and anti-semitism
and we do not want to be a tied or linked. to those things in any way shape or form
it's understandable why people are offended by the word swastika
considering the atrocities done under a swastika flag
even when told the true meaning of the symbol
They don't want to be associated with something that intoday's world
it means something bad.
Bad is an understatement.
People see a swastika and think pain torture and genocide. It's horrific
See me, I was raised with the swastika being a normal symbol
Normal is also an understatement.
The swastika is one of the auspicious symbols of Buddhism.
you know a symbol that I see in a temple on Buddha
Buddhist books see a swastika sign and I always knew it was a symbol for goodness
the word swastika is actually Sanskrit for wellbeing for let good things happen
Hinduism Buddhism and Jainism have used it as a sacred symbol of good fortune
and prosperity for thousands of years and they still use it that way today so
knowing this I've always felt that the swastika as a good symbol is limited to
these Eastern religions that's until I noticed the swastika
when I was in Europe normal Parisian Street
at the door just above the door there was like a swastika symbol it wasn't
like a clear symbol but it was in the design of like multiples to swastika
that were all connected to each other and they look like a you know
that creative design it wasn't just Paris either when I went to Greece aside
practically everywhere I saw so many ancient Greek artifacts in museums
bearing the swastika as a symbol by itself pretty clear but the design of
swastikas being connected to each other was on borders borders
borders yes borders but meanders to be exact
these were on buildings and public city artifacts in the streets of Athens it
was just like the one I saw in Paris so that's that's what got me really
interested in this plastic it seemed like okay it's not definitely
not just in Asia and it turns out the swastika is an ancient and universal
symbol from the Bronze Age different types of swastikas have been used as an
ornament and as a symbol all around the world in the Middle East
for the West
in Africa
the swastika was even used among indigenous Americans
is everywhere in modern Asia
but we see it in ancient Asia as well
the swastika can still be seen a lot of buildings throughout the world
as you can tell the swastika wasn't just used by Buddhists and Hindus it was used
in various times and places by Christians Muslims and even in Judaism
the swastika appeared in ancient synagogues excavations during the late
20th century revealed that they featured decorative swastika mosaics from the mid
60 Hertz notes in Judaism in stone after Hitler came to power congregants of the
Emmanuel synagogue of Hatford Connecticut discovered to their horror
that the synagogue vestibule had been paved with a mosaic containing several
swastikas the mosaic pavement was promptly paved out swastikas were
everywhere in the ancient world from Europe to Asia from Africa to the
Americas from the Bronze Age to the Roman Empire and into the early days of
Christianity for whatever reason they disappeared during the last few
millennia in most of the world but as we've seen it's remained a sacred symbol
in much of Asia to this day there's a lot of debate about where the swastika
originally came from the US National Museums Thomas Wilson who published a
thorough and detailed book on the swastika in 1894 prior to world war ii
and the nazis explains that although it is difficult to determine the origins
and early history as they're lost in antiquity there are two theories that
would explain it either separately or together migration theory which says
that it spread from one location out into the world and had its meaning
changed and modified over time it's debated as to where it started but it
may well have been the Indus Valley in India as many scholars believe that it
is where we find its earliest known usage coincidence theory which points
out that the swastika is made up of simple forms like the circle triangle
across since it's easy make it may well have been invented and
reinvented at different times in different places all over the globe as
you can see there are many many different styles and forms but all are
considered swastikas according to scholars like Wilson at the turn of the
20th century the swastika returned as a popular symbol in Western cultures in
its own way it was a lot like the peace sign of the 60s and of the 70s though it
meant a good fortune instead of peace just as I saw in Paris it would be used
in architecture cast in stone buildings and meanders merchants and manufacturers
would print it on consumables to
from nike5 sears head lugs there were this this is broken unfortunately Boy
Scouts this is a boy stuck in with this this was 2000 the American Girls Club
also had a magazine called the swastika there was also bingo the monkey whose
magic power was the lucky swastika and they were postcards it's it's got so
many meanings behind it a postmark 19 1908 in the United States in ancient
days swastika possessed a magic charm and shielded its possessor from danger
and from harm to you it brings good wishes and if I had the power I would
bring you all that life hold it holds near this very day an hour
so there's beautiful sayings that's a lot of a lot of different postcards
there my sister was a postcard collector she would go to postcard shows and buy
postcards it can go both ways and you don't know which way you're gonna find
it there's something I've got over a hundred of them completely different
things this view is marked 1910s NT 1910 Merry
Christmas
you spend all of those days this is 1913 these three different styles so here's
just one is he around ones friends the swastika was clearly the good-luck charm
not only to North America but to the world
until so how the hell did the Nazis take a symbol of good and warp it like that
well it's not that straightforward see while the world focused on the swastikas
actual symbolic meaning the Nazis focused on the origins it actually
started long before Hitler during an excavation in 1871 a German
archaeologist named Heinrich Schliemann found hundreds of objects from around
2,000 BC with various swastika designs in hissarlik the ancient site of Homer's
Troy today's Turkey recognizing their similarities to the symbols found on
pots in conic walled Germany he presumed that the swastika was a religious symbol
of Germanic ancestors because of that esoteric occultist and nationalist
writers in the early 20th century Germany claimed that the swastika was a
symbol of the indo-european Aryan race a superior race that was supposedly the
distant ancestors of the Germanic people when Hitler and the Nazis rose to power
in the 1920s they adopted the symbol for their party representing their nation
and this Aryan superiority in the name of that racial myth and under the
swastika baring flag representing it Hitler and the Nazis committed countless
atrocities unthinkable war crimes that haunt the Jewish people the other
victims of the Holocaust and many others throughout the world
they became the greatest symbol of evil in the world it's no wonder that the
swastika did to in a few short decades the ancient sign of good fortune became
a symbol for anti-semitism racism and hatred that's why the swastika is banned
both in Germany and in places around the Western world yet the swastika is still
used by all kinds of hate groups worldwide from white supremacists and
neo-nazis in the United States and Europe to Islamic extremists in the
Middle East to Islamophobic s-- all over the world its previous history was
buried and forgotten all the earlier benign uses of the symbol were
eliminated any appearance of the swastika even in countries where had
been seen as benign would be quickly removed just as it's forbidden in the
West it's often also taboo in the East countries whose people are predominantly
Buddhist Hindu or other believers who know the other meaning are still aware
of the Western view and are still careful with it even when I was doing my
research I didn't dare to show the books that I was reading the ancient symbol of
goodness and positivity that people used all over the world is now forgotten
swastika equal evil is what we remember now must not draw must not show must not
carry still now that nearly a century has passed since the rise of the Nazis
people are resisting both the bans and the hate groups by attempting to bring
back the original meaning more and more artists are including the swastika and
their art to educate people on its ancient origins like Edith Altman a
German Jewish American artist who mounted an installation titled
reclaiming the symbol art of memory carolyn o'neil who showed
me the postcards is a resident and historian of a town called swastika in
Ontario Canada the town has been criticised for its controversial name
but the residents here have fought to keep it I was raised here my family
moved here in 49 there's about five years old went to school there I worked
at the nursing homes for close to thirty years and I ran the museum for five
years and I raised my two sons here we don't have any objection to the name
it's not just what speak this rusty piece rusty how did I get its name from
the swastika coal mine it was a good luck symbol at the turn of the century
the swastika mine was founded by the dusty brothers in 1908 they named it
swastika because of their good fortune and finding gold on the shores of otto
Lake Ontario in 1939 local communists requested the tech Township Council to
change the name of swastika this started a long battle to retain a name which
residents considered an important part of the true heritage yet when the people
of swastika thought that one they were in for a surprise
the Ontario Minister of Highways tbéamé aquestion announced that he was changing
the name of swastika to Winston he thought it was people coming to the area
would be affronted by seeing the place called swastika so he didn't talk to the
people in swastika he went back to Toronto and all of a sudden the place is
called Winston why do you destroy somebody's heritage it's a small village
it's got nothing to do with Hitler you know we're not Nazis we're not Germans
people got together and they said no you know what you can't change her name they
stuck the signs up and the people just take it and shoot into the river or into
the base one basement the buildings and finally the government
gave up and they said no but you have the name saw Steve mister there's no
problem after that it's a good luck symbol it's my whole mine I'm proud of
being northern of Northern Ontario I'm proud of the community we periodically
get a ladder from certain organization that says you know why do you exist you
can't have that name and I I give that sending information informing people is
important but when it comes to universally used symbols things can
still get very confusing take orientation you see it on the
internet you see it all over YouTube you google it and you'll see people put this
is the good swastika and mrs. Abbas Classica some people have been convinced
that one orientation is evil while the other isn't but it isn't true and it
isn't that simple it depends on which religion the in the Gamma could be right
or left both are considered holy of all the swastikas found in antiquity all
over the globe there are no apparent distinction between the arms bent to the
left or right the swastika on the Buddha has the arm oriented to the left or
right depending on the sect here you see the swastika in the center the branches
of the swastika suggest rotation which symbolizes the cycling of the wheel of
Dharma the wheel of laws that's central to Buddhism the swastika is one of the
auspicious symbols of Buddhism it represents the mine of the Buddha and it
can be seen on his chest palms or the soles of his feet some say that he left
swastikas as footprints others say that there was a time when the Buddha could
not be represented in other ways other than his foot imprints I guess that
wouldn't make more sense and over time we gave a poetic reason of
why it's on his feet in Hinduism an older religion that
Buddhism draws from the swastika is often drawn with the bend to the right
with softer edges and four dots in each corner of the symbol in Hindu mythology
the lines are said to represent the rays of light and the four cardinal
directions the bends of the lines represent the four possible after lives
for humans plant animal divine and demonic the orientation of the outer
lines suggests the rhythm of time and the dots in between the space represents
the divine spirit present in the four eras that make
the cosmic lifespan the dots in the Hindu swastika are significant not only
to Hindus but to alchemists philosophers and even psychologists of different eras
they all came to similar conclusions about the dots meaning it has a position
but no extension in space it represents the beginning of possibilities the
source of everything and an image of infinity the dot is also referred to as
the point the jot the tittle Mona hadn't been duped or mustard seed the dot is
seen as the creative force of the cosmos but it's also seen as a source of
opposing tendencies like male and female light and dark as much as it is the
place of reconciliation now in the Hindu religion however they do have a
distinction between left and right and it just balances each other out so for
example the right rotation is a symbol of Vishnu the preserver of the universe
and Sun and light though some argue that it's a symbol of Ganesh rather than
Vishnu the left handed swastika is the emblem
of Kali the goddess of death and destruction and the powers of darkness
and some say say it's Shiva Kali is an epithet of
Shiva and is said to be the consort of Shiva and when we talk about destruction
and darkness it doesn't mean evil not in the way
people often assume it's part of nature in order for life to be balanced there
has to be light and dark there has to be the male essence and the female essence
one way counteracts the other to make everything balanced and that's part of
God right it's part of life
when you ask a Buddhist or Hindu what the swastika means to them though they
are most likely to say prosperity good luck power or hope there are other names
used to describe the symbol the swastika was originally a Taoist symbol in China
a symbol of eternity called Wan as the wan tsuu or 10000 character sign it
represented the 10,000 things under heaven in Japan it's called the man G
and also has two forms to express the opposing elements of life in French it's
the quagga me which means gam aided cross gamma is the third ya made it
cross is a cross with a gamma on each of the four ends in Germany they call it
who current working press hurricane crass I don't know I just atop my head
oh that was good it literally means a hooked cross in
Britain it's called the Phil fought in Old English from the Scandinavian flour
foot meaning for or many footed the Slovaks called a collar rod this symbol
has doubled the amount of legs and it's dedicated to the ancient Slovaks of God
it's vadik it doesn't just symbolize the Sun it
represents eternity and the repeating cycle of life and death good and evil it
also became a popular Slavic decorative design on Easter eggs for Slavs during
the Renaissance period there is also the Triskelion and a Tetris guillain which
are Greek and Latin for three armed and for armed spiral volute right on Queen
and Spadina Triskelion mitrice Triskelion Triskelion Triskelion which
is the symbol has had many names but swastika has been the accepted term
around the world since the late 19th century right rotation left rotation you
can debate that too it depends on how you see it for example yeah if you look
at the gamma going like right you can follow that right direction and say oh
that's clockwise but if you see the ends as feet walking it's counterclockwise
and if you see the corners leading and the ants trailing like the turning of a
galaxy it's counterclockwise as well so it's all it's a matter of perspective
right as you can see there are so many
different ways humanity has drawn the swastika their interpretation also
differs from culture to culture the Trojans believed that it was a symbol of
the generative power of men and that it was partially a symbol of a vulva some
indigenous peoples in the Americas believed it was a symbol of the Sun
others also saw it as a Sun wheel representing the four winds and a for
ancient base elements of fire earth air and water in the Tibetan bon tradition
the swastika was a symbol of unchanging eternity Carl Sagan the famous
astronomer theorized that it could be the image of a comet's tail based on
ancient Chinese illustrations in Taoism it represents the 10,000 things under
heaven some cultures thought that the emblem represented the forked lightning
of a Thunder God like Thor for the Norse and Germanic peoples of pre-christian
Europe the Norse also thought that Odin had passed through space on a whirling
swastika disk looking down on all the worlds yeah there's endless debates some
scholars suggest that it is interchangeable between many of these
things but the most common theme is the solar symbol and rotation or motion
to me the first thing that comes to mind when I think of a swastika
would be the universe
the Sun rotates on its axis the planets rotate around the Sun the galaxy rotates
about its core with its trailing spiral arms and I guess you can see it as God
right if you think of God makes everything turn and everything happen
and the swastika being a rotation I could see how people think of it as a
symbol of God I could imagine how a symbol of God could transition into a
symbol of hope or well-being or good fortune and maybe the good fortune part
has to do with how rarely we see things like comets meteors or big lightning
strikes people still wish upon a shooting star after all for thousands of
years the swastika had been an auspicious symbol of prosperity and
divinity and most of humanity now has a completely different outlook on it
whether we're educated on it or not that auspiciousness has been fragile so
what's the point of this to reclaim its ancient meaning not necessarily I
wouldn't want to forget the atrocities that humanity is capable of
we're the ones who give meaning to these symbols and the swastika is as valid and
impactful a symbol of those atrocities now as it was a symbol of good fortune
in the past we don't know if he could ever be what it was we may remember the
old meaning and remember this new meaning there may be other meanings too
in time the swastika had meant the universe or everything under the heavens
to the people of the past perhaps that should include all of what
the swastika symbolizes everything under the heavens from the extreme good to the
extreme bad the swastika shows us that there are many facets to assemble many
views depending on who sees them and when symbols and ideas have origins and
can change radically in response to important events in the end the story of
the swastika shows that remembering the bad is sometimes a good thing for
Humanity it might help us learn from our mistakes and possibly avoid future
tragedies for now being aware of all of its facets is all we should and can do
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