Off: Music help

[J Strobridge]

Carl E. Anderson writes:

> 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.


And the 3 legs of the Isle of Man.   Am I right in thinking that there's
a left handed and a right handed version of the swastika (the short bits
point clockwise or anticlockwise) the right handed one being the good
luck version - the left handed one being the Nazi one?   Or am I just
havering again....


uncertainly

jill
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