I loves me some simple pleasures. Stealing
this bit of esoteric knowledge is one of them. I now know 2 html tricks!
I wandered into this website and its discussion of the fylfot, that I thought I'd share parts of.
http://www.odinic-rite.org/fylfot.html I have of course butchered things to make them suit my purposes, so check it out yourself, it's an interesting and relatively brief read.
ONE of the most venerable signs of our religion, one of the most universal symbols of mankind's spiritual aspirations, and yet one of the most passionately controversial, is undoubtedly the fylfot, more commonly known as the swastika......
... For the Hindus it is the holiest of signs; for the Buddhists an emblem of their Enlightened One; for the Lamaists of Tibet it is a sacred mantra and for the adherents of Cao Dai in Vietnam the particular symbol of their creed. Nor can we overlook its religious use by the native races of the entire New World, from the Aztecs to the Aleutians, and in the animistic magic of the Ashanti and other African tribes,
where we must assume its origins lie in the spontaneous creation of the indigenous culture rather than in extraneous influences......
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A symbol means, after all, whatever it is understood to mean. If for the war veteran it means the enemy he fought in the last war, if for the war widow it means the cause of her loss, then that is what it means to them, regardless of what it means to Odinists.
