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>> When Cheryl Shapiro visited the holiday aisle at her local Walgreens in Los Angeles over the weekend, she was shocked to spot Hanukkah wrapping paper with a geometric border design that had a swastika shape in it.
Hitler stole the swastika symbol. The swastika has been around some 12,000 years and was defined as a symbol for "well being" or similar interpretation. Many cultures have used it over the ages.
i just see a geometric design. Nothing to get excited over.
@Retired_Engineer: You are so right! A friend from India explained that in Sanskrit 'Swast' means "Good Health". "Swastik" means a symbol for 'Well-being" therefore, "Good Health". In ancient astronomy, it is the symbol for the Sun, since the Sun is the source of all energy and creates good health. It is the root symbol which, in modified form, evolved into the Greek-Egyptian 'Aunkh" and, according to one theory, the Cross.The Swastika is found carved into structures in ancient monasteries and temples in China, India, Tibet, Korea, Cambodia, Viet-nam, Japan - in fact, all over Asia. Hitler probably - erroneously - thought it was an Aryan symbol when he adopted it.
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