Tibetan Buddhist statue carved from iron meteorite

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10. Little info on the Swastika

The Swastika is the SS shape (the upright arms are shaped like an S instead of a Z).

The leftward facing is sometimes known as a Sauwastika, but is also frequently called a Swastika, as well.

And yes, they're both ancient Indian symbols, later used by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jainists.

The article on Swastika: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

The part where they talk about the shape: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Geometry

The article on the Sauwastika: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauwastika

Hitler didn't invert a holy symbol to make it evil, he wrongly appropriated a holy symbol wholesale, without alteration, and associated it with his own brand of evil in the minds of everyone. The only thing he did to make the Nazi Swastika stand apart was he tilted it on its corner. Both directions of the Swastika are traditional symbols of sun and good fortune, and has been found in use in the Indus Valley Civilization around 3000BCE.