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- From: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey)
- Subject: Re: wearing pagan/pentacle jewelry
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- <fX0rqt#@quack.sac.ca.us> <1993Jan20.045913.10276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 09:04:04 UTC
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- In article <1993Jan20.045913.10276@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- pciszek@nyx.cs.du.edu (Paul Ciszek) writes:
- >pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey) writes:
- >>The Swastika is a reversed sunwheel, thus the direction is disorder or
- >>chaos. The Nazis did very much damage this pagan symbol, very badly.
- >The idea that one of the enantimorphs of the swastika is good and the
- >other bad postdates the Nazis. On very old Irish tombstones you will
- >find both orientations, used symmetrically (such as clockwise on the
- >left, counter on the right or vice versa) with no clear distinction
- >between the two. After Nazism, though, people were very insistant about
- >using the "other one".
-
- There is a reason for this. Before Christianity really, good and bad
- were seen as a pair, an inseperable pair. But Christianity teaches that
- one must cast out bad as if one can seperate the two, that is have one
- without the other. The technical term is evil and a Christian speaks of
- good versus evil, Jesus versus Lucifer, etc. The clockwise sunwheel is
- also symbolic of a prior age, the Paleolithic, when humans were a part
- of nature and the counterclockwise sunwheel is symbolic of the Neolithic
- when humans began to control and dominate nature. We moderns speak of
- man-made things as not natural. Man-made in this sense would be the
- reversed sunwheel. Make sense? One goes against the sun or with the sun,
- maybe good, maybe bad, but never evil, until Hitler. There's more to it
- but that's the basic idea, one symbolizes the direction of the sun, the
- other is opposite to the sun, forward versus backwards, natural versus
- man-made or perhaps supernatural.
-