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swastika::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hakenkreuz |
| Type of | tetraskelion, emblem, tetraskele, allegory |
Examples of swastika
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The backward swastika was painted on the forehead of Casspi, who is from Israel.
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Police found he owned several knives, along with a German helmet and a swastika.
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The symbol of German fascism, the swastika, is of course absent from the design.
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An old Algerian man is stabbed to death, with a swastika slashed into his chest.
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The swastika appears only very rarely in the archaeology of ancient Mesopotamia.
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The swastika is featured on many distaffs, dowry chests, cloths and other items.
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On the platform of the vile display were a bloody Star of David and a swastika.
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In Germany it is a serious crime to display the swastika or other Nazi symbols.
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It has been suggested this swastika is a stylized picture of a stork in flight.
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- The official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction
- The swastika (also known as the hakenkreuz, gammadion cross, cross cramponnu00E9e, or tetraskelion) (as a character: u5350 or u534D) is an ancient religious symbol that generally takes the form of an equilateral cross, with its four legs bent at 90 degrees. It is considered to be a sacred and auspicious symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism and dates back to before the 2nd century BC.
- A symbol that occurs in many cultures and times, swastikas recur on artefacts dated to the Germanic Iron Age (i.e. ...
- Michael Slade (b. 1947, Lethbridge, Alberta) is the pen name of Canadian novelist Jay Clarke, a lawyer who has participated in more than 100 criminal cases and who specializes in criminal insanity. Before Clarke entered law school, his undergraduate studies focused on history. ...
- An ancient symbol in the form of an equal-armed cross with each arm continued at a right angle, presently used (running anti-clockwise) as the emblem of a Chinese humanitarian organization founded in 1922, (in a clock-wise form) on the presidential flag of Finland, and until 1945 as the emblem ...
- An ancient symbol appropriated by the Nazis as their emblem.
- The Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migrations; with Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times. In Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution
- An ancient symbol often used in Eastern religions as a symbol of life. In 1920, it was taken by the Nazi party as its symbol. A twisted cross, it came to represent all the evils of Nazism.
- A swastika can be one of many related designs based on a sun mandala. It is an ancient symbol representing wholeness used around the world especially in the Hindu and Native American cultures. ...
