From the Mediterranean Sea to the Arctic Ocean, the symbol was used in the Bronze Age as a common decorative device.
There is no strong evidence to suggest that the Indian symbol has any relation to the European one, other than simple coincidence.The word “swastika” is of an Indian (Sanskrit) origin, but the visual symbol seizes even further in history. There was no need to use a Sanskrit term to label a line formation dating back to pre Christianity Europe. In the 21st century, those who have revered the Swastika for generations spanning millennia are being asked to give up on their sacred symbol because the English made a mistake in labelling a line formation.
It is as important to them as the crucifix is to the Christians. It has a positive sacred meaning for the billion-plus Hindus as well as Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists. In the East, the Swastika has been in continuous use for thousands of years. The above sequence of events makes the descendants of civilisations in the East very uncomfortable. English-speaking academics mislabelled the European “hooked cross” (despite almost every Continental European country calling it so in their languages) and instead labelled it as the “Swastika”. An error of such epic proportions that those that revere the symbol in the East are still paying the price to this day.
The English used this idea of the imaginary “super race” and took the giant leap of assuming the symbol widely used in the Indian subcontinent same as the one found by archaeologists in Europe – a terrible error. The theory is controversial and heavily disputed there are suggestions that it is based on outdated supremacist bigotry which assumes any cultural achievement of significance in the Orient or New World must have a Western origin. the Indus Valley Civilisation) and not the indigenous population. The theory assumes it was the Aryans that built ancient civilisations in the East (e.g. He imagined that they imagined lived thousands of years ago and eventually ended up in the Indian subcontinent. Namely, Max Muller was tasked with conjuring up a narrative that would enable imperial forces to justify their quest for domination over the Indian subcontinent.īeing a linguist, Muller saw similarities in some words in European languages and theorised that they all had one common origin spoken by a “super race”, he called them “the Aryans” (a label he borrows from civilisations in the East). The discovery of the “hooked cross” by archaeologists sparked the imagination of European academics, that were tasked with creating propaganda material to aid Imperialism.
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