Off: Music help

[Carl E. Anderson]

On ons 3 dec 1997 16.02 +0100 "Daniel Wikdahl" <mpj95wid at MC.HIK.SE> wrote:

> No, but I think it's even more silly to wear a swastika if you're not
> a nazi.

     Well, unless you are a Hindu, Navaho, etc.  One of the peoples in the
world for whom it remains a religious good-luck symbol.  Up until it was
adopted by the Nazis, the swastika was one of the most widely used
good-luck symbols in the world.

     It actually remains in use in Euro-American contexts in forms
sufficiently different from the common Nazi one that no one notices.  The
"Pennsylvania Dutch" hex signs often use "swirly" versions of the
swastika, and the three-armed "triskele" is effectively the same symbol.

folklorically,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/