Above is the Tri-ratna emblem with a Svastika symbol on each side.
There are other Svastika marks, and others on the toes (see p.
This is also historically true, for the svastika has been found under the ruins of the ten or dozen Troys which occupy the immemorial site near Smyrna.
Celtic also meant good, the four T's surrounding the svastika of Fig.
Annunciation: this design consists, as will be noted, of a svastika extended into a rose or maze, and a precisely similar emblem is found in Albany.
Other authorities believe that the octopus symbolised "the fertilising watery principle," and that the svastika is a conventionalised form of this creature.
The moral of this incident may be applied to the svastika cross, an ubiquitous symbol or trade-mark which Andrew Lang surmised might after all have merely been "a bit of natural ornament".
The svastika in its simpler form is the cross of St. Andrew, Scotch Hender or Hendrie.
The sign of the cross will be more fully considered subsequently, but meanwhile one may regard the svastika as the trade-mark of Troy.
Burton says:[53] The Svastika is apparently the simplest form of the Guilloche [scroll pattern or spiral].
The Svastika spread far and wide, everywhere assuming some fresh mythological and mysterious significance.
Historically, the Svastika is first attested on a coin of Krananda, supposing Krananda to be the same king as Xandrames, the predecessor of Sandrokyptos, whose reign came to an end in 315 B.
The similarity between the group of letters sv in the ancient Indian alphabet and the sign of Svastika is not very striking, and seems purely accidental.
One of the signs for marking cattle was the Svastika [fig.
Svastika, and that the Svastika has been inserted within the rings or normal circles representing the four suns of the Ujjain pattern on coins.
Another point to be noted is that in the Kunthistorisches Museum at Vienna is an ancient vase upon which is a representation of the Sun-God Apollo bearing upon his breast as his one ornament and symbol a Svastika cross.
Svastika crosses, one bearing a Svastika cross of the other variety, and a third bearing Svastika crosses of both kinds.
This representation of the Goddess of Love and Bride of the Sun-God is marked with several Svastika crosses, and is yet further evidence of the phallic and solar character of that symbol.
The origin of the Svastika cross, whether the {image "svastika1.
Schliemann quotes with approval the opinion of Professor Sayce that the Svastika cross, {image "svastika2.
On the lid we see two serpents surrounded by eight Svastika crosses (some of each variety) and eight crosses formed of tau crosses, {image "taucross.
In figure 6 we have a cut of a chest from Athiaenon upon which two Svastika crosses will be noticed.
Schliemann upon the site of Troy, we find on page 350 of Ilios that both varieties of the Svastika cross are extraordinarily common upon the articles he discovered.
On the back are eight Svastika crosses (some of each variety) and eight other crosses.
Schliemann admits that the Svastikacross drawn within the triangle marking the vulva, shows that this cross was a sign of generation in ancient and pre-historic times.
The svastika is of common occurrence in India, and is employed alike by Hindus and Buddhists.
The svastikadoes not appear on the coins struck in Bactriana, or in India, by Alexander and his Indo-Greek successors.
It might therefore be possible that the Hindus had known the svastika before feeling in their arts, and even in their symbolism, the influence of the Greek invasion.
There can be no doubt that the fylfot and the svastika are genetically allied, but it is not at present very easy to demonstrate all the links of the chain.
The oriental form even in the extreme east of Asia can be traced without difficulty to the svastika of India.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "svastika" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
