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The Swastika Is An Ancient Symbol of Good Luck
The Swastika Is An Ancient Symbol of Good Luck
The Swastika Is An Ancient Symbol of Good Luck
Many Far
Eastern cultures still use it such as Japan which uses the
symbol to mark temples on maps. Some cultural hiccups have
happened like when a couple of Jewish kids buying pokemon
cards imported from Japan and these cards had swastikas on
them.
Another one would be in the famous NES hit title The Legend of
Zelda which had one of the dungeons completely shaped as a
Swastika which shows that Japan doesn’t look at the swastika
as a bad symbol like it is in the West.
Even though it’s used as an Islamic symbol today, the Star and
Crescent’s origins actually stem from Ancient Mesopotamia as
well!
It’s also possible that the star and crescent used by the
Ottomans was a redesign of the Byzantine Roman version: