Swastika---Symbol from ancient India.

Swastika meaning "good well being"....it has its Sanskrit backing from books on ancient India about Lord Vishnu...
Since Harappan civilization this symbol is used in one form or the other in various places , organizations of the world and different well literate people of the world.

Some of the examples i could find from Internet and books n even some galleries are posted here..
i will start from the number>description and then below that the image i could find..

1.Etruscan pendant with swastika symbols Bolsena Italy 700 BCE to 650 BCE.

 

2.Administrative Office of Woljeong-sa (Woljeong temple). Odeason National Park. South Korea.

3:Curtiss Export Hawk II, Polish Aviation Museum in Kraków

4: The I class of the Order of the Cross of Liberty, with star, for peacetime merits.

 5.The Elephant Gate (entrance) at Carlsberg Brewery, Copenhagen. Architect: Vilhelm Dahlerup,
1901..

6.Matilde Moisant in 1912 wearing a swastika. it was worn by many people of aviation industry for good luck.

7.The swastika mark on the tower of the Armenian fortress Ani (10th century AD)

 


8.A mandala-like swastika, composed of Hebrew letters and surrounded by a circle and a mystical hymn in Aramaic. Appears in the Kabbalistic work "Parashat Eliezer" by Rabbi Eliezer ben Isaac Fischel of Strizhov, a commentary on the ancient eschatological book "Karnayim", ascribed to Rabbi Aharon of Kardina. The shape of the symbol and the contents of the hymn show strong solar symbolism.

9.Double swastika from the wall of the XII c. church in Kruszwica.

10.Bone comb with swastica from the Nydam Mose [ Nydam Mose ("Nydam Bog") is an archaeological site located at Øster Sottrup, a town located in Sundeved, eight kilometres from Sønderborg, Denmark.]

 
 11.Elaborated version of "Hands of God" symbol of Slavic neopaganism.
Representation of a design on a funerary urn of the Przeworsk culture (central Poland), ca. 2nd century AD. The urn was found in a cremation cemetery at Biala near Lódz. In Nazi-occupied Poland, a representation of the urn was made the new coat of arms of Lódz (renamed Litzmannstadt).
Literature:

• Andrej Mikolajczyk, 'Didactic presentations of the past: some retrospective considerations in relation to the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, Lódz, Poland' in: Gathercole and Lowenthal (eds.), The Politics of the Past (1990).
• Archaeologia Polona, Volume 42, 2004. pp. 302-303. 

12. Ancient Greek phrygian helmet with swastika marks, 350-325 BCE, found at Herculanum, Taranto. Personal photograph at the Cabinet des Medailles, Paris.

13.An unsubstantiated image caption found in Iran ...Swastika was."A 3000 years old Iranian golden swastika necklace from Marlik, found in Rasht, Iran. Preserved at the National Museum of Iran".The identity of this artefact (date, location, museum catalogue nr.) still needs to be established.

 14.The Samarra bowl (ca. 4000 BC) as on exhibit at the Pergamonmuseum, Berlin.
The bowl was excavated as Samarra by Ernst Herzfeld in the 1911-1914 campaign, and described in a 1930 publication. The design consists of a rim, a circle of eight fish, and four fish swimming towards the center being caught by four birds. At the center is a swastika symbol.
The bowl was broken, part of the rim is missing, and one crack ran right across the central symbol, so that the swastika symbol should be considered a reconstruction.
Literature:

• Ernst Herzfeld, Die vorgeschichtlichen Töpfereien von Samarra, Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra 5, Berlin 1930.
• Stanley A. Freed, Research Pitfalls as a Result of the Restoration of Museum Specimens, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 376, The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections pages 229–245, December 1981

15. Kantharos. The snakes on handles mark a funerary present. Ornamentations—snakes frieze, swastikas and spangled flowers—have a symbolic value. Attica, ca. 780 BC.

16. At last one of the best and used in all festivities in India...

Note: all the above images are property of there respected owners... my views are just to be shared and not to be forced upon anybody. i am neither against nor in favor of any views being depicted by my posts. these are just my personal thoughts and i just take them out on my blog here. do post your valuable comments. Thanks... Spread Love Spread Happiness...