@Tfmonkey the Romans also used the swastika, as seen here in a mosaic found in some domus ruins. Perhaps the Nazis took the swastika from the Romans and not from Asia?
@blitzdriver but the Nazis literally travelled to Tibet to look for the Aryans among the Tibetan Buddhists.
"The Nazi use of the swastika stems from the work of 19th Century German scholars translating old Indian texts, who noticed similarities between their own language and Sanskrit. They concluded that Indians and Germans must have had a shared ancestry and imagined a race of white god-like warriors they called Aryans."
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591
@Tfmonkey I know they went to Tibet, but why the swastika being used by the Romans as well?
@blitzdriver Rome traded with India, and they probably liked it, but they didn't incorporate the symbol as Roman.
The Nazis did because they believed that the Aryans were located in Tibet and thought that Germans and Indians had some ancestral link via the Aryans.
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The swastika was used by practically everyone. Everyone discovers it and everyone likes it. For Romans it was asociated with Jupiter.
What I don't understand is why would the Nazi's think that Tibet was the cradle of Aryanism when it was well understood even then that modern Iran was the likeliest place. They've even found Swastika's dated at over 7000 years old there.
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Every generation seems to just "find" the Swastika on their own somehow. Here's an example:
@Tfmonkey @blitzdriver Tangent to this topic, I have noticed one odd similarity with German and Indian accents in how they pronounce words with W's. They both pronounce them with a V, or at least a good chunk of Indians do (there are quite a bit of languages in India besides Hindi). Maybe they saw other similarities and thought there was something to it, but I don't know how much of that is coincidental or not.