It turned out that in a small, relatively secluded town of Revalsar, we arrived quite late enough, so late that the small, sleepy and lazy provincial hotels were hard to mess with our settlement. The hosts of the hotel shrugged, shouted their heads and waving their hands somewhere toward the night slammed the doors in front of our nose. But we willingly, the truth was not free of charge for residence in the guest house in the Tibetan Buddhist Monastery on the lake.

As it happens often for Tibetan places, the Hindu was engaged in our meeting and accommodation, since it was not necessary to deal with Tibetan monks to make money and worldly issues. In addition, the monastery was no longer the first hour was immersed in night darkness, and the monks should have to sleep, so that tomorrow early in the morning it was necessary to go to meditation to meditation tomorrow early in the morning. The Hindu who gave us the keys to the hotel room about this and other sorrows of the world, and in order to somehow console themselves persistently recommended us to visit this event at seven in the morning.

The main topics are lower: buses and trains, flights and visas, health and hygiene, safety, route, hotels, food, necessary budget. The relevance of this text is spring 2017.

Hotels

"Where will I live there?", For some reason, this question is very much, it just strains those who have not traveled in India. There is no such problem. Hotels there Pond pond. The main thing to choose. Then we are talking about inexpensive, budget hotels.

In my experience there are three basic ways to find a hotel.

Spiral

Usually you will arrive in a new city by bus or train. So there are almost always a great mass of hotels around them. Therefore, it is enough to move away from the place of arrival and start walking in a circle with an increasing radius to come across many hotels. Inscription "Hotel" In the significant territory of India denotes the place where you can have a snack, so the signboards are the main landmarks "Guest House" and "Lounge".

In the zones of mass idle (Goa, the resorts of Kerala, Himalayas) are the private sector, well, as we have on the Black Sea coast. There it is possible about housing to be interested in the local population and navigate on the signs " Rent". In Buddhist places you can live in monasteries, in Hindu in Ashrama.

The further move away from the bus station or railway station, the lower the price, but the hotels are ever less and less. So inspect several hotels acceptable by price and quality and return to the selected one.

If you travel by a group, then you can send one or two people in search of the hotel, while the rest are waiting at the train station with things.

If the hotel refuses and say that the hotel is only for the Hindus, then insist on the settlement almost useless.

Ask a taxi driver

For those who have a lot of luggage or just look for laziness. Or I want to settle near the sights, for example, Taj Mahal, and not at the station. Even in large cities there are places of traditional cluster of tourists: in Delhi, this Maine Bazaar, in Calcutta, is a Street cereal, and somehow called Bombay, but I forgot, that is, in any case you have to go.

In this case, find the driver of Motoriksha or a taxi and put the task where you want to live in what conditions and for what about money. In this case, you can sometimes contact the desired hotel, even show several seats to choose from. It is clear that the price is immediately increasing, it is pointless to bargain, since the taxi driver's commission has already been included. But sometimes, when lazy or in the middle, it is quite convenient to use this method.

Book online

This is for those who love certainness and guarantees, greater comfort and less adventure.

Well, if you book in advance, then book hotels and not too cheap (at least $ 30-40 per room), because otherwise there is no guarantee that in reality everything will be so beautiful as in the photos. I also complained that sometimes came to the booked hotel, and the rooms, despite the reservations were already busy. The owners of the hotel were not embarrassed, they said that a customer came with money, and the wills of the will to refuse not enough to customer with cash. Money was returned, of course, but still insulting.

Search, settlement and accommodation in low-cost Indian hotels can be independent adventure, the source of fun, and sometimes not very funny memories. But it will be that at home then tell.

Technology settling

• Free from the presence of "Hindu helper" and called, their presence automatically increases the cost of settlement.
• Come to the hotel that seems worthy of you and ask how much it costs and decisive whether it is worth living there, at the same time you have time to evaluate the interior and help.
• Be sure to ask for a show before settling, show all your kind of discontent and indignation, ask to show another number, most likely he will be better. So you can make several times, seeking all the best placement conditions.

Those who are interested in the energy of Osho and Buddha, meditation and India, we invite you all on a trip to the places where it was born, I lived the first years of life and gained the enlightenment of the greatest mystic 20th century Osho! In one trip, we are compatible with the exoticism of India, meditation, absorb energy seats Osho!
Also in the plan of the tour includes visiting Varanasi, Bodhgai and possibly Kajuraho (on the fact of the availability of tickets)

Key travel destination

Kuchwada

A small village in Central India, where Born and lived the first seven years, Osho surrounded and the care of her grandparents who loving his grandparents. In Kuchwad, there is still a house that remained exactly as she was in the life of Osho. Also near the house there is a pond, on the shores of which she loved the clock to sit Osho and observe the endless movement of the reed in the wind, fun games and the flights of the Herkel above the stuck water. You will be able to visit the house of Osho, spend time on the shore of the pond, walk around the village, to absorb that the serene spirit of rustic India, which undoubtedly had an initial impact on the formation of OSHO.

In Kuchwad, there is a fairly large and comfortable ashram under the patronage of Sanyasin from Japan, we will live, and meditate.

A small video "emotional impression" from visiting Kuchwada and House Osho.

Gadarwara

At the age of 7 years, Osho, together with his grandmother, moves to his parents in the small town of Gararwara, where his school years are held. By the way, the school class, where she studied Osho still exists, and there is even worth the party, followed by Osho. You can go to this class, sit at the desk, where in childhood there was so much time our favorite master spent so much time. Unfortunately, to get into this class is the case of the case and luck, depending on which teacher conducts classes in the classroom. But in any case, you can walk around the streets of Gadarvara, visit the primary and high school, the house where Osho lived, the beloved River Osho ...

And the main thing is that on the outskirts of the city there is a quiet, small and cozy Ashram, where there is a place in which at the age of 14 years old experienced a deep sentence of death.

Video from Ashrama Osho in Gadarvar

Jabalpur

Big city with more than a million inhabitants. In Jabalpur, Osho studied at the university, then he worked in him by the teacher and became a professor, but the main thing that at the age of the 21st year gained enlightenment, which happened to him in one of the Jabalpur parks, and the tree under which it happened still grows on Old place.

In Jabalpur, we will live in a quiet and cozy ashram with a magnificent park.

From Ashram it is easy to get to the marble cliffs - the miracle of nature, where he liked to spend time Osho during his stay in Jabalpur.

Varanasi

Varanasi is famous for its cremation bins, which are burning and afternoon, and at night. But there is also surprisingly a pleasant embankment, the famous temple of Cashie Vishvanath, boat walks on Gangu. Next to Varanasi is a small village of Sarnath, a famous fact that the Buddha read his first sermon, and the first listeners were ordinary deer.

Bodhgai

Place of enlightenment Buddha. In the main church of the city, which surrounds a beautiful and extensive park, the tree is still growing in the shade of which he gained the enlightenment of the Buddha.

In addition, in Bodhgaye, there are many of the most diverse Buddhist temples erected by the followers of Buddha from a variety of countries: China, Japan, Tibet, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma ... Every temple has its own unique architecture, the decoration carried out by ceremonies.

Kajuraho

Kajuraho itself is not directly connected with Osho, except that the Tatrian temples of Kajuraho Osho often mentioned, and his grandmother had a direct attitude towards Kajuraho.

In the textbooks of world history, documentaries about World War II, we see a sign that carries the ideology of fascism. A frightening sign is drawn on the sleeper bandages of the SSS, on the fascist flag. They marked captured objects. The bloody symbol was afraid of many countries and, of course, no one thought, which means the fascist swastika.

Historical roots

Contrary to our assumptions, the swastika is not the Hitler's notion. This symbol is still far from our era. In the process of studying various eras, archaeologists see this ornament on clothing and various household items.

The geography of finds is extensive: Iraq, India, China and even in Africa found fresco fresco with a swastika. However, the most enormous amount of confirmation of the use of swastika in the daily lives of people has been assembled in Russia.

Word itself translates from Sanskrit - happiness, welfare. Sign of the rotating cross on some gignifices of scientists symbolizes sun path in the dome of heaven, It is a symbol of fire and a homely hearth. Winning house and temple.

Initially in household life, the sign of the rotating cross began to apply the tribes of white people, the so-called Aryan race. However, the Aryans are historically indoirans. Presumably, the indigenous territory is the Eurasian indoor, the area of \u200b\u200bthe Ural Mountains, which means that close relationship with Slavic peoples is fully explained.

Later, these tribes were actively moved to the south and settled in Iraq and in India, bringing with them culture and religion into these lands.

What does the German swastik mean?

A sign of the rotating cross in the XIX century was revived due to active archaeological action. Then it was used in Europe as a wubble, which brings good luck. Later there was a theory about the exclusivity of the German race, and the Swasthana acquired the status symbol of many ultra right German parties.

In his autobiographical book, Hitler pointed out that he came up with the emblem of New Germany independently. However, in essence it was a long-known sign for a long time. Hitler depicted it black, in a white ring, on a red background and called Khakenkroyzthat in German means " hook Cross».

The bloody-red fabric was suggested consciously in order to attract the attention of the Soviet people and, taking into account the psychological influence of such a shade. The white ring is a sign of national socialism, and the swastika is a sign of the struggle of Aryans for their pure blood.

In the Hitler's idea, the hooks - knives prepared for the Jews, Roma and unclean.

Swastika Slavs and Fascists: Differences

However, when compared with the fascist ideological emblem, a number of distinctive features were found:

1. Slavs did not have clear rules for the image of the sign. The swastika was considered a fairly large number of ornaments, they all had their own names and possessed a special force. They met intersecting lines, frequent branching or even curved curves. As you know, in the Hitler's emblem there is only a four-mohed cross with sharp curved tips on the left side. All intersections and bends at right angles;
2. Indoirans painted red sign on a white background, but other cultures: Buddhist and Indian used blue or yellow;
3. The Aryan sign was a powerful noble faith, which symbolized wisdom, family values \u200b\u200band self-knowledge. According to their idea, the German Cross - weapons against the unclean race;
4. Ancestors used an ornament in household items. They decorated with their clothes, handbones, napkins, painted vases to them. Fascists used a swastika for military and political goals.

Thus, it is impossible to put both of these sign in one line. They have enough differences, both in writing and use and ideology.

Myths about Swastika

Highlight some delusionsconcerning an ancient graphic ornament:

• The direction of rotation does not matter. According to one of the theories, the focus of the sun on the right side means the peaceful creative energy, and if the rays look at the left, the energy becomes destructive. Slavs, among other things, used left-sided ornament to attract the patronage of the ancestors and increase the strength of the kind;
• The author of the German swastika is not Hitler. For the first time, the mythical sign on the territory of Austria brought a traveler - the abbot of the monastery Theodore Hagen at the end of the XIX century, from where she spread in German land;
• The swastika in the form of a military sign was applied not only in Germany. Since 1919, the RSFSR has used the swastika violating badges to designate the Kalmyk Military.

In connection with the serious events of the war, the Swasta Cross acquired a sharply negative ideological color and by decision of the post-war tribunal was banned.

Rehabilitation of the Aryan symbol

Various states today belong to the swastika:

1. In America, a certain sect is actively trying to rehabilitate the swastika. There is even a holiday of the rehabilitation of a swastika, which is called worldwide and celebrate on June 23;
2. In Latvia, in front of the hockey match, during the indicative flashmob, the dancing unfolded a large figure of the swastika on the ice rink;
3. In Finland, the swastika is used on the official flag of air troops;
4. In Russia, they still boil hot disputes for the restoration of the sign in rights. There are whole groups of swasticophils that lead various positive arguments. In 2015, Roskomnadzor spoke about admissibility of showing the swastika without its ideological propaganda. In the same year, the Constitutional Court forbade the use of a swastika in any form, due to the fact that it is immoral in relation to veterans and their descendants.

Thus, the attitude towards the Aryan sign is different worldwide. However, we all need to remember what the fascist swastika means, as it was the symbol of the most destructive ideology in the history of mankind and nothing to do with the Valves Slavic sign on the semantic load does not have.

Video about the value of the fascist symbol

In this video, Vitaly Derzhavin will tell about a few more swastika values, as she appeared and who the first began to use this symbol:

Quote communication Swastika - ancient Slavic symbol

symbol "卐" or "卍", SANSKR. स्वस्तिक from स्वस्ति svassi. - Greeting, wishing good luck, prosperity) - Cross with curved ends ("rotating"), directed or clockwise or against it. - The swastika did not have anything in common with fascism until 1941

Popular was a swastika in Slavic peoples, undoubtedly, the most thriving in the ancient world. The ownership of the most extensive and rich lands and numerous populations are the legacy of this prosperity. The swastika accompanied the Slavs from the first to the last day of their lives, bangling on the overalls, clothes, cradle, cult objects and structures, weapons, signs, coat of arms, etc. She acquires his form from the global, most impressive person of the substance - cosmic, copying the Galaxian profile (our galaxy is named Wati), the comet and the trajectory of the Polar constellation movement is a small bear.

Swastika reflects the main type of movement in the universe - rotating with its derivative - translational, can symbolize any philosophical categories and, most importantly - not to give yourself offense .

Therefore, the Slavs had at least 144 species of swastika. Here are some of them, followed by a brief description:

	Symbol of kind - Heavenly sign of the genus. They decorate the idol of the genus, as well as charms and Laneanka. If a human symbol is on his body and clothing, then no force can overcome it.
	SWASTIKA - symbol of the eternal cycle of the universe; It symbolizes the highest heavenly law, which is subject to everything. This fiery sign people used as a charm that protected the existing law and order. Life itself was dependent on the inviolability.
	Sustain - Symbol of movement, cycle of life on Earth and rotation of Midgard-Earth. The symbol of the four sides of the world, as well as the four northern rivers, separating the ancient sacred Darius by four "areas" or "countries", in which four kinds of Great Race initially lived.
	Sonon. - An ancient sunny symbol that protects man and his goodness from the dark forces. Depicted, as a rule, on clothes and household items. Very often, the image of Soloni is found on spoons, pots and other kitchen utensils.
	Yarovik - This symbol was used as an overlap for the preservation of the harvest assembled and avoiding the case of livestock. Therefore, it was very often portrayed over the entrance to the barns, lining, sheepskin, riga, stables, cowshes, oxins, etc.
	Yarovrat - The fiery symbol of the Yaro-God, which controls yarre flowering and all the graceful weather conditions. The people were considered mandatory for obtaining a good harvest to draw this symbol on agricultural workers: plows, sickles, braids, etc.
	Wati. - Galaxy, in one of the sleeves of which our Midgard land is. The structure of the galaxy is viewed from the Earth in the form of Purunov, or the Milky Way. This star system can be represented as a left-sided swastika, so it is called wati.
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	Saint Dar. - symbolizes the ancient sacred northern pranodine of white peoples - Daria, called now: Hyperborea, Arctic, Severia, the Paradise Earth, which was in the Northern Ocean and died as a result of the first Flood.
	Marica
	Symbolizes the light strength of the kind of generator, helping the peoples of the Great Race, has a permanent support for the ancient multi-sorts of ancestors to people who work for the benefit of their kind and creating their descendants.
	The symbol of the universal power of the kind of generator, preserving in the universe in the original form the law of the continuity of the knowledge of the wisdom of the kind, from old age by the beast, from the ancestors to descendants. The chalk of the chart that reliably retains generation generation to generation.
	Symbolizes the universal border, dividing the earthly life in the world of Javi and a posthumous life in the higher worlds. In a worldly life, he is depicted at the input gates to the Kapieche and the Sanctuary, pointing out that these gates are the frontier, followed by earthly laws, and heaven.
	It is depicted on the walls of the Kapple and Sanctuary, on the altar and sacrificial stones and on all other structures, since it has the greatest protective force on the evil, darkness and ignorance.
	Lebel - grass - This symbol was the main faith for protection against various diseases. The people believed that sickness per person was satisfied with evil forces, and a double fiery sign could burn any birth and illness, clean the body and soul.
	Symbol of fiery update and transformation. This symbol was used by young people who joined the Family Union and waiting for the appearance of a healthy offspring. A wedding bride was given decorations with Colert and Solore.
	The symbol of the magnitude of the fertility of the mother of raw land, receiving light, warmth and love from the Yaril-Sun; The symbol of the prosperity of the earth. The symbol of fire, giving prosperity and prosperity of childbirth, creating for their descendants, to the glory of bright gods and multi-sorts.
	The symbol of god carriages, which performs on Earth updates and changes for the better; This is a symbol of victory of light over darkness and a bright day over night. In addition, the car beaddler was used as a male charm, giving her husbands to the creative work and in the battle with a loud body.
	The symbol of love, harmony and happiness in the family, the people called him Ladynets. How he was walked in the main girl in order to have protection from "bad eyes." And so that the power of the power of the Ladinz was constant, he was fitted into the Great Kolo (Circle).
	MATCHMAKER - Sacrifice ancestors, as well as sacrificial exclamations, pronounced with such a sacrifice. In this value, Swaha is already found in the Rigveda.
	The most powerful family charm, symbolizing the combination of two births. The merger of two echiguous welder systems (body, souls, spirit and conscience) into a new single life system, where the male (fiery) beginning is connected with female (water).
	The Fiery Court Sign, through which the Heavenly Virgin Magnias gives married women with all kinds of assistance and effective protection from the dark forces. It is embroidered and tkut on shirts, sundresses, cables, belts together with other overlap signs.
	Heavenly wanings of babies. It is depicted on the cradle and cradle, used in the embroidery of their clothes. He gives them joy and pacification, protecting against the unchalled and cranks.
	Heavenly image, giving and protecting the health of maidens and women. Together with married women, he helps to give birth to healthy and strong children. Therefore, all girls and women apply the Slavs in embroidery on their clothes.
	Fire Crested Sign, guarding family unions from hot disputes and disagreements, ancient childbirth - from quarrels and intercruises, residents and dwellings - from fires. All-star leads family alliances and their ancient childbirth to Lada and universal glory.
	The symbol of the connection of the earth and heavenly live fire. His destination is to maintain the paths of permanent unity of the genus. Therefore, all the fiery altars for Burnless demand brought to the glory of gods and ancestors was built in the form of this symbol.
	Stroke, passage for ships, straightened, bed, depth, gate, Farwater - (Dlya dictionary).
	The symbol of the Vahan (carrier) Vishnu is a mystical bird of huge sizes that fought by elephants.
	The symbol of God, managing all winds and hurricanes - Stroboga. This symbol helped people protect their homes and fields from bad weather. Sames and fishermen gave a calm water surface. Melniki built windmills, resembling a sign of a striboga, so that the mill was not stood.
	Fire symbol of god kind. Its image is found on the idiot of the genus, on the platbands and "towels" on the rods of the roofs at home and on the shutters of the window. How the guard was applied to the ceilings. Even in the Temple of Vasily Blessed (Moscow), a fighter of the mound can be seen under one of the domes.
	This symbol personifies the connection of two great fiery flows: earth and divine (extraterrestrial). This compound generates an universal vortex of transformation, which helps a person to reveal the essence of multidimensional being through the light of knowledge of the ancient basics.
	Symbolizes endless, permanent heavenly movement, called the Swag and the eternal cycle of the vitality of the universe. It is believed that if Swor is depicted on home utensils, then in the house there will always be prosperous and happiness.
	Symbolizes the constant movement of the Yarily-Sun in the sky. For a person, the use of this symbol meant: the purity of thoughts and acts, goodness and light of spiritual insight.
	The symbol of the setting, i.e. yarily-sun leaving on peace; Symbol for the completion of the creative work for the benefit of the kind and the Great Race; Symbol of spiritual perseverance of man and peace of nature.
	A charging symbol, guarding a person or an object from a black spell on him. Charovrat portrayed in the form of a fiery rotating cross, believing that the fire destroys the dark forces and various spells.
	Symbol of protective coast of spiritual fire. This spiritual fire purifies human spirit from egoism and low-lying thoughts. This is a symbol of the power and unity of the military spirit, the victory of the bright forces of the mind above the forces of darkness and ignorance.
	Symbol of sacred fire satellite and home hearth. The overall symbol of the highlights of light gods, guarding the dwellings and temples, as well as the ancient wisdom of the gods, i.e. Ancient Slavic-Aryan Vedas.
	Non-free fire, source of life.
	Multipates the power of the governing word, strengthens the action of orders.
	Symbolizes the primary life of akin to the divine fire of creation, from which all the universes and our system of Yaril-Sun appeared. In the ordership of Inglia - a symbol of the initial divine purity that protects the world from the forces of Mraka.
	Symbol of the ascending Yarily Sun; Symbol of eternal victory of light over darkness and eternal life over death. Color of Kovovrat is also important: Fiery symbolizes rebirth; Heavenly - update; Black - change.
	Fire God's sign, meaning the inner and external human dispensation. It denotes the four main components, koi is given by creators and who are inherent in every person a great race: body, soul, spirit and conscience.
	Ancient charm guarding wisdom, justice, nobility and honor. This sign is particularly reading in warriors who protect their native land, their ancient genus and faith. As the security character was used by priests for the preservation of the Vedas.
	The symbol of the spiritual force of the Yaril-Sun and the prosperity of the kind. It was used as a native charm. As a rule, the solar cross emphasized the greatest force: the priests of the forest, grieving and whims, which were portrayed on clothes, weapons and cult accessories.
	The symbol of the heavenly spiritual strength and power of generic unity. It was used as a native charm, guarding the one who wears him, giving him the help of all the ancestors of his kind and help of the kind of heavenly.
	Heavenly symbol of God Indra, guarding the ancient heavenly wisdom of the gods, i.e. Ancient Vedas. As an overlap, I was depicted on military weapons and armor, as well as the entrances to the repository, in order to be included in them with evil thoughts were amazing thunder (infraser).
	Fire symbolism, with the help of which the natural elements of the weather became possible, as well as the slopovik was used as an overlap, protecting against the bad weather and temples of the Great Rating Children.
	The symbol of the heavenly power of the god of the Svarog, preserving the entire variety of life forms in the universe. A symbol that protects various existing reasonable forms of life from mental and spiritual degradation, as well as from destruction as a reasonable look.
	The symbol of the eternal relationship between the earth's waters and heavenly fire. From this connection, new pure souls are born, which are preparing for the incarnation on Earth in the obvious world. Pregnant women embroidered this charm on dresses and sundresses to be born healthy children.
	The symbol of the Guardian Priest, who keeps the ancient wisdom of labor of the race of the Great, for in this wisdom, they persist: the traditions of communities, culture of relationships, the memory of the ancestors and the patrons of childbirth.
	The symbol of the priest-keeper of the ancient faith of the first-enders (drop-inglengling), which keeps the shining ancient wisdom of the gods. This symbol helps to know and apply ancient knowledge for the benefit of the prosperity of childbirth and the ancient faith of the first.
	It personifies the eternal power and the patronage of the bright gods to a person who has become a path to spiritual development and perfection. The mandala depicting this symbol helps a person to realize the interpenetration and unity of four first elements in our universe.
	The title sign on the navigation circle; The symbol of the patron saint of the drawing - Rakhata. This sign indicates the connection of the past and future, earthly and heavenly wisdom. In the form of the guard, this symbolism was used by people who were inserted on the path of spiritual self-improvement.
	It was used to concentrate the highest healing forces. The soulful swastika had the right to include in the ornament of clothing only priests, rising to a high level of spiritual and moral perfection.
	The process of intensive spiritual self-improvement.
	He enjoyed the greatest attention from Cudesnikov Magi, leads, she symbolizes harmony and unity: Teles, souls, spirit and conscience, as well as spiritual power. Magnies used spiritual power to manage natural elements.
	The fiery symbol of the purity of the spirit is possessed by powerful healing forces. In the people, it is called Perunov color. It is believed that he is able to open the treasures hidden in the ground, execute desires. In fact, he gives a man the opportunity to reveal spiritual forces.
	Symbol of permanent transfiguration of the human spirit. Used to strengthen and concentrate the spiritual and spiritual forces necessary for a man for creative work for the benefit of everyone.

Swastika (SanskR. स्वस्तिक from Sanskr. स्वस्ति, Sustinate, greeting, wish, good luck) - Cross with curved ends ("rotating"), directed either clockwise (this is the movement of the earth around the sun), or counterclockwise.

(Dr.-ind. Svastika, from SU, letters. "related to blessing"), one of the most archaic symbols, occurring already in the images of the upper Paleolithic, in the ornament of many nations in different parts of the world.

Swastika is one of the most ancient and widespread graphic symbols. "The symbol of the swastika is crystallized from a rho-meander ornament, first appeared in the upper Paleolithic, and then inherited by almost all the peoples of the world." The oldest archaeological finds with the image of the swastika are dating approximately 25-23 thousand years BC (Mozin, Kostenkov, Russia).

The swastika was used by many people of the world - she was present on weapons, subjects of everyday life, clothes, signs and coat of arms, was used in the design of churches and houses.
The swastika as a symbol has many meanings, most of the peoples are positive. The swastika for most ancient peoples was a symbol of life, sun, light, well-being.

celtic stone Kermaria, 4th century BC

The swastika reflects the main type of movement in the universe - the rotational with its derivative - progressive and is able to symbolize the philosophical categories.

In the 20th century, the swastika (Hakenkreuz) received fame as a symbol of Nazism and Hitler's Germany, and in Western culture is stably associated with the Hitler's regime and ideology.

History and meaning

The word "swastika" is a composite of two Sanskrit roots: सु, su, "good, good" and अस्ति, Asti, "Life, existence", that is, "welfare" or "well-being". There is also a different name of the swastika - "Gammadion" (Greek. Γαμμάδιον), consisting of four Greek letters "Gamma". The swastika is considered not only as a solar symbol, but also as a symbol of the fertility of the Earth. This is one of the ancient and archaic solar signs - a pointer of the visible movement of the Sun around the Earth and dividing the year to four parts - four seasons. The sign fixes two solstice: summer and winter - and annual movement of the sun. It has the idea of \u200b\u200bfour sides of the light, centered around the axis. The swastika assumes the idea of \u200b\u200bmovement in two directions: clockwise and counterclockwise. Like "Yin" and "Yang", a dowel sign: Rounding clockwise symbolizes male energy, counterclocky - female. In the Ancient Indian Scriptures, the male and female swastika distinguish, which depicts two female, as well as two men's deities.

White Glazed Net Pattern of Orchs, Yi Dynasty

The swastika personifies the moral characteristic: the movement on the sun - good, against the sun - evil. (()) In the symbolism of favorable, the sign is depicted in the form of a cross with a curved at an angle or ovally (in the direction of the clockwise direction) ends, which means "screwing" energies , Hold the stream of physical forces in order to manage the lowest forces. The right-sided swastika is perceived as a sign of domination over matter and energy management (as in yoga: the hold of the body in immobility, the "screwing" of the lower energies makes it possible to manifest themselves with the highest forces of energies). Left-sided swastika, on the contrary, means developing physical and instinctive forces and create an obstacle to the passage of higher forces; The direction of movement gives preference to the mechanical, earthly side, an exceptional desire for power in matter. Connected counterclockwise, the swastika is also seemed as a symbol of black magic and negative energies. As a solar sign, the swastika serves the emblem of life and light. Perceived as an incomplete zodiacal circle or like a wheel of life. Sometimes the swastika is identified with another sunny sign - a cross in a circle, where the cross is the sign of the daily movement of the sun. As a symbol of the sun is known for an archaic set of wastust with a ram symbol. The symbol of rotation, continuous movement, expressing the immutability of the solar cycle, or the rotation of the earth around its axis. The rotating cross, the blades at the ends of which represent the movement of light. The swastika contains the idea of \u200b\u200bperpetual overcoming the inertia of the square with the wheel of rotation.

The swastika is found in the culture of the peoples of many countries of the world: in the symbolism of ancient Egypt, in Iran, in Russia, in the ornaments of different communities. One of the oldest swastika forms is Multiazia and is an ideograph of four sides of the light in the form of a figure with four cruciform curls. Back in the VII century BC, images similar to the swastika, consisting of four crucifier-arranged curls, were known in Asia, the rounded ends are the signs of cyclic movement. Interesting coincidences in the image of Indian and low-immiginal swastik (points between the branches of the swastika, gear thickening at the ends). Other Early Forms of Swastika - Square with Four Planting Roundings At the edges of the Earth's sign, also of low-ancient origin. The swastika was understood as a symbol of the four main forces, the four sides of the world, the elements, the seasons and the alchemical idea of \u200b\u200bthe transformation of the elements.

In the cultures of countries

Swastika is one of the most archaic sacred symbols, which is already in the Upper Paleolitis in many nations of the world. India, Ancient Rus, China, Ancient Egypt, the state of Maya in Central America is the incomplete geography of this symbol. Swasty symbols denoted calendar signs in the times of the Scythian kingdom. Swastika can be seen on old Orthodox icons. Swastika is a symbol of the sun, good luck, happiness, creation ("correct" swastika). And, accordingly, the swastika of the opposite direction symbolizes darkness, destruction, "Night Sun" in the ancient Rusch. As can be seen from the ancient ornaments, in particular, both swastiki were used in the jugs found in the vicinity of Arkaim. It has a deep meaning. The day replaces the night, the light replaces darkness, the new birth replaces death - and this is the natural order of things in the universe. Therefore, in antiquity there were no "bad" and "good" swastik - they were perceived in unity.

The first skewers appeared at an early stage of the addition of symbols of front -hasional neolithic crops. Swoby-like figure 7 thousand BC Malaya Asia consists of four cruciform curls, i.e. The signs of vegetation, and, obviously, is one of the options for the ideograph of the concept of "four sides of the world". The memory that the swastika once symbolized the four sides of the world was recorded in medieval Muslim manuscripts, and also preserved to our time from American Indians. Another swasti-like figure belonging to the early stage of the low-immiginous neolithic, consists of a sign of the Earth (square with a point) and the four crustoid appendages adjacent to it. In this kind of compositions, it should seems to see the origin of the swastika - in particular, its option with rounded ends. The latter is confirmed, for example, an ancient target swastika, complained with four plant elements.

This symbol is detected on clay vessels from Samarra (the territory of modern Iraq), which are dated by the V Millennium to our era. The swastika in leavustry and inexpensive form meets in the Dooric culture of Mohenjo-Daro (Indus River Basin) and Ancient China around 2000 BC. In Northeast Africa, archaeologists have found the funeral stele of the Kingdom of Meroz, which existed in the II-III centuries of our era. The fresco on the stele depicts a woman entering the afterlife, the swastika is also painted on the clothes. The rotating cross decorates the gold weights for the scales belonging to residents of Ashanta (Ghana), and the clay utensils of the ancient Indians, and the carpets of Persians. The swastika was almost all the chambers of the Slavs, Germans, Pomorov, Skalvov, Kurys, Scythians, Sarmatov, Mordlov, Udmurts, Bashkirov, Chuvish and many other peoples. In many religions, the swastika is an important religious symbol.

Ancient Greek burial vessel, approximately 750 years. BC.

Details of the ancient Greek burial vessel

The swastika in India was traditionally considered as a solar sign - a symbol of life, light, generosity and abundance. It was closely related to the cult of God Agni. It is mentioned in "Ramayana". A wooden tool was made in the form of a swastika for the extraction of sacred fire. His plafhmy put on the ground; The deepening in the middle served for the rod, which was rotating until the appearance of fire was fired on the altar of the Divine. It was carved in many temples, on the rocks, on the ancient monuments of India. Also a symbol of esoteric Buddhism. In this aspect it is called "Heart Printing" and, according to legend, was captured on the heart of the Buddha. Her image is put on the hearts dedicated after their death. Known called the Buddhist Cross (in the form resembles the Maltese cross). The swastika is found everywhere where there are traces of Buddhist culture - on the rocks, in the temples, stups and the statues of the Buddha. Together with Buddhism penetrated India to China, Tibet, Siam and Japan.

Torchis of female sculpture, sixth century BC

In China, the swastika is used as a sign of all the deities who worshiped at the lotus school, as well as in Tibet and Siam. In the ancient Chinese manuscripts, it included such concepts as the "region", "country". Known in the form of a swastika two curved interconnected fragments of a double helix, expressing the symbolism of the relationship "Yin" and "Yang." In marine civilizations, the motive of the double spiral was an expression of the relationship between the opposites, the sign of the upper and lower waters, and also meant the process of becoming a life. Widely used by Jainists and followers of Vishnu. In Jain, the four hands of the swastika represent four levels of existence.

Swastika in India

At one of the Buddhist swastik, each cross blade ends with a triangle pointing to the direction of movement and the arched arch of the flawed moon, in which the sun is placed in the Floor. This sign is a sign of mystical arba, a creative quader, also called the thorah hammer. A similar cross was found to be found in the excavation of the Troy. In Eastern Europe, Western Siberia, Central Asia and the Caucasus occurs from the II-I Millennium to our era. In Western Europe, the Celts was known. Depicted in the pre-Christian Roman mosaics and on the coins of Cyprus and Crete. Known ancient tapered swastika from plant elements. Maltese cross in the form of a swastika of four converging in the center of triangles - Phoenician origin. It was also known for Etruscs. In early Christianity, the swastika was known as a harmned cross. According to Genon, to the end of the Middle Ages was one of the emblems of Christ. According to Osendovsky, Genghis Khan wore a ring with the image of a swastika on the right hand, which was given magnificent ruby \u200b\u200b- a sunny stone. This spark Osendovsky saw on the hand of Mongolian governor. Currently, this magical symbol is known, mainly in India and Central and East Asia.

Swastika in Russia

In Russia, the swasting symbols were known from ancient times.

Rhby-Meandrol Wasticulture ornament in Kostenkovskaya and Mezino cultures (25-20 thousand years BC) studied V. A. Gorodets.

As a special kind of swastika, symbolizing the ascending Sun-Yaril, the victory of the Light over the darkness, eternal life over death, was called Kolovrat (letters. "Rotation of the wheel", the old Russian form of Kolovrat was used in ancient Russian).

In Russian folk ornamenik, the swastika was one of the usual figures until the end of the XIX century.

Swastika was used in rituals and construction, in a housecloth production: in embroidery on clothes, on carpets. The swastika was decorated with homemade utensils. She was present in the icons
In St. Petersburg necropolis, the grave of Glinka is crowned with a swastika.

In post-war children's legends, the conviction was common that the swastika consists of 4 letters "g", symbolizing the first letters of the names of the leaders of the Third Reich - Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Geering.

Swastika in India

In Dobuddian Ancient Indian and some other cultures, the swastika is customary to interpret as a sign of favorable destiny, the symbol of the sun. This symbol is still widely used in India and South Korea, and most weddings, holidays and festivities do not do without it.

Swastika in India

Buddhist symbol of excellence (also known as Manji, "Vortex" (Yap. まんじ, "Ornament, Cross, Swastika")). The vertical feature indicates the relationship of the sky and the earth, and the horizontal indicates the Yin-Yang relationship. The direction of short drops to the left personifies the movement, softness, love, compassion, and their aspiration to the right is associated with constancy, hardness, mind and strength. Thus, any one-sidedness is a violation of world harmony and cannot lead to universal happiness. Love and compassion without power and hardness helpless, and power and mind without mercy and love lead to the multiplication of evil.

Swastika in European culture

The swastika has become popular in European culture in the XIX century - on the wave of fashion Aryan theory. English Astrologer Richard Morrison organized the Order of the Swastika in Europe, 1869. It meets on the pages of the books of Reddiard Kipling. The swastika was also used by the founder of the movement of the boy-scouts by Robert Baden-Powl. In 1915, the swastika, being ancient times, very spread in Latvian culture, was depicted on banners of battalions (then regiments) of the Latvian shooters of the Russian army.

Altari Co. swastika in Europe:

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Then, since 1918, it became an element of the official symbolism of the Republic of Latvia - the emblem of military aviation, regimental signs, signs of societies and various organizations, state awards, is used and now. Latvian battle Order Lachplesis had the form of a swastika. Since 1918, the Swastika is part of the state symbols of Finland (now depicted in the presidential standard, as well as on the banners of the Armed Forces). Later became the symbol of the German Nazis, after their coming to power - the state symbol of Germany (depicted on the coat of arms and flag); After World War II, in a number of countries, its image was prohibited.

Swastika in Nazism
The National Socialist German Workers Party appeared in the 20s of the 20th century (NSDAP) chose a swastika as its party symbol. Since 1920, the Swastika has become associated with Nazism and racism.

There is a very common misconception that the Nazis elected their emblem right-sided swastika, thereby having perverted the covenants of the ancient wise men and declared the sign itself to which more than five thousand years. In fact, it is not. In the cultures of different nations, both left-sided and right-sided swastika.

Under the definition of the "Nazi" symbolism, only a four-pin swastika standing on a rib 45 °, with ends directed to the right side. It was this sign that was on the state banner of National Socialist Germany from 1933 to 1945, as well as on the emblems of civil and military services of this country. The Nazis themselves used the term Hakenkreuz (literally "curve (hooked) cross"), which is synonymous with the word Swastika (SWASTIKA), also having a walking in German.

In Russia, the stylized swastika uses the All-Russian public movement of Russian national unity (RNE) as the emblem. Russian nationalists say that the Russian Swastika is Kolovrat - is an ancient Slavic symbol and cannot be recognized by Nazi symbolism.

Swastika in the cultures of other countries

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Many believe that the main symbol of the Third Reich is a black swastika on a red background - he came up with Hitler himself or people from his closest environment. But in fact, this opinion is nothing but a misleading. The Nazi shrine, as, however, and other attributes of fascist Germany, existed long before the endless fuyrera coming to power and initially did not carry such an ominous meaning.

The main emblem of the Third Reich has a centuries-old history. She was widespread in Iran already in the VI Millennium. BC e. Later, the swastika met in the Far East, in Central and Southeast Asia, in Tibet and Japan. It was widely used and Delling Greece. In Kiev Rus, this sign, called "Kolovrat", was also very popular. The swastika and the indigenous people of American continents did not go around. And the peoples of the Caucasus and the Baltic Pomper used it as an element of ornaments even at the beginning of the 20th century.

Naturally, all this time, the cross with the curved ends did not associate with the massive murders, destructive war and crimes against humanity. By the way, historical information that this sign used the ancient German tribes, no. The fascists who came to power were looking for a suitable emblem for the Nazi state and owed their choice on a swastika, surrounding it with ancient German, and even the Aryan symbol.

The value of this symbol is not defined. There is a version that he was one of the varieties of a cross with broken ends, symbolizing, according to historians, the inner world of a person is a space located between perpendicularly intersecting lines. However, the most common look at the swastika is that it is seen solar, that is, a sunny sign. Ethnographers consider it just a harmless symbol of the movement of the heavenly shine and the change of seasons.

Adolf Hitler for some reason saw something fundamentally different in it. In his opinion, the cross with curved ends personified the superiority of the Aryans over other peoples. What was guided by the German Führer when issuing such an assessment - a mystery.

Moreover, it is relifically known that the idea of \u200b\u200busing a swastika as an emblem occurred by no means Hitler. The main symbol of the third Reihu "presented" ... German Masonic Lodge! More precisely, its successor is the secret organization "Tula". Initially, this society was engaged in the study and popularization of ancient history and folklore. However, its members kept the nose in the wind and with pleasure responded to the ideas of Hitler. The ideology "Tula" began to be based on the concepts of German racial superiority, anti-Semitism and Pangerman Dream about the new powerful German Reich. All this was densely "seasoned" by the occult: members of society conducted special rites and magical rituals. Among the characters used in these rituals were swastika.

Hitler, always interested in the occultism, this sign climbed, and he decided to make it the emblem of his party. The leader of the NSDAP has changed a little swastika, and in the summer of 1920 a symbol was born, who after two decades was horrified on the whole of Europe: a black cross with curd ends, inscribed in a white circle on a red background. Red symbolized the social ideals of the party, and white - nationalist. The cross pointed to the victory and the rule of the Aryan race.

Hitler's arrival post to power Swastika has become an indispensable attribute of state, official, military and corporate symbolism of Germany. The Germans were so trended by this "the sign of superiority", which in 1935 there was even a special decree "On Prohibition of Jews to hang the flag with a swastika." Apparently, the Nazis believed that the elements will deflate their shrine with their touchs "racially unclean".

During the existence of the Third Reich, the swastika was used everywhere: on monetary signs, dishes, souvenirs. Flags and transparencies with this sign during any festivities were carried away by the streets of German cities, and they were hurt so tightly that passersby began to rich in the eyes. However, sometimes the Nazi shrine was used not by appointment: the fashionable of fashion was considered a ladies' dress, the fabric of which was decorated with an ornament of thousands of small crosses.

It is possible that the swastika would remain a symbol of the sun, fire and fertility. If it were not for the second world, with the beginning of which she thanks to Hitler definitely ceased to be "solar".

It was the use of the Nazis runes to be the basis of the names of the Herman and Scandinavian peoples, more organically and appropriate from the point of view of racial theory. As you know, ancient times, the Runic signs were not only letters, but also had magical importance - used for divination and as security amulets. Historians believe that by introducing runes in everyday life, Hitler and his surroundings tried not only to develop patriotism among the residents of Germany, but also hoped to use runic signs as a magical instrument. True, they interpreted their Führer selectively: he left only the meanings that responded to his worldview. So, Rune Zig, the double image of which was the "logo" of the SS, in the canonical interpretation meant the desire for the light and enrichment of the spiritual world, as well as the flourishing of creative abilities. Naturally, the valiant sieves such qualities were anything, therefore, in the interpretation of Hitler, Runa-Zipper, "thunder, lightning and, again, the superiority of the Aryan race.

An eagle and oak branches can also be attributed to the "rented" symbols. The authorship of these signs goes back to the Roman Empire. Decorating the coat of arms of German Reich, Hitler wounded, no much, for the most common attributes of the authorities of the Roman Caesarians.

Such an ominous sign of distinction, as a skull ("dead head"), the fascists borrowed from the Okoloson Order - Rosenkreyers. And at first, this dark image symbolized, according to his "primaries", the victory of the Spirit over the marine matter. Remember medieval philosophers, pondering with a skull in their hands on the topic: "Poor Jorik ..."? But in the hands, more precisely, on the fingers of the SS officers who mounted the "dead head" on silver rings, this sign acquired a completely different meaning. He became the embodiment of cruelty, destruction and death.

So do not be mistaken: the Nazis did not themselves invented the symbolism of the "millennial" Reich. All characters used and attributes have been existed for a long time and used in much more humane purposes.

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