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Title: Archaeologists Unearth 7,000-Year-Old Swastika in North-western Bulgaria
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Balkan Travellers
URL Source: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1975
Published: May 20, 2010
Author: Balkan Travellers
Post Date: 2010-05-27 22:50:44 by X-15
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Comments: 14
A pottery fragment with the image of a swastika, dating to 7,000 years ago, and an ancient female adornment with a phallus are among the artefacts shown for the first time as part of the on-going exhibition “Gods, Symbols and Ancient Signs” in the museum in Vratsa in north-western Bulgaria. The swastika-decorated clay pottery fragment was found by archaeologists during excavations of a ritual pit around the village of Altimir near the town of Vratsa. The find dates back to the beginning of the Stone-Copper Age and shows that this symbol traverses the centuries and cannot be linked solely to Hitler’s party, archaeologists explained. The swastika as a symbol dates to the Neolithic period in Ancient India, according to previous archaeological finds. It can also be seen on Roman and Medieval artefacts. Although it was commonly used all over much of the world without stigma and still occurs widely in religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, the swastika has become stigmatized in the Western world, because of its iconic usage in Nazi Germany. Similarly, arcaheologists explained that the symbolism of the ancient bronze, phallus-decorated medallion included in the exhibition isn’t necessarily translated to contemporary meanings. Other interesting artefacts displayed as part of the exhibition are the bronze instruments to make silver and gold plates and cups and the Christian crosses found in the early medieval settlement near the village of Harlets. Other of the exhibition’s accents are the small horse amulets, as well as the bracelet fragments with Celtic signs, an ancient black-figured skyphos - a two-handled deep wine-cup and votive tablets of Heracles and the Thraciant god, which serve as an example of votive tablet iconography. After the display in Vratsa, which is to stay for one month, the archaeologists, according to national media, intend to take the exhibition on tour at least in the northwestern part of Bulgaria.
Poster Comment: On the next Coast to Coast with George Noory, 'Time traveling Nazis went to Bulgaria 7,000 years ago!!'.
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Similarly, arcaheologists explained that the symbolism of the ancient bronze, phallus-decorated medallion included in the exhibition isn’t necessarily translated to contemporary meanings. There weren't necessarily any Jews back then either.
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Those are reverse swastikas, not Nazi swastikas. Nazis used crossed-S's, these are crossed-Z's. Various ancient religions, including Christians, used this version as a symbol.
Both the right and left swastikas predated any modern use as a political symbol. They were used anciently as a sort of yin and yang, the masculine and the feminine, the active and the passive, etc., etc. The Hindus and the Jains use a right swastika, the Buddhists a left one.
I see psyops everywhere.
I guess I forgot to mention that I have a time machine, and for a goof, I drew a backwards Swastika on some broken pottery just to screw with some folks who thought they knew more about ancient history than I did.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
There really is no distinction such as "reverse" in swastikas. Nazis used a symbol that had been around thousands of years and means " any lucky or auspicious object." The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing form or its mirrored left-facing form.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
Uh-huh. I'm still right. That was not a Nazi swastika.
There is no "Nazi swastika" as you claim--in the last 50 years one group didn't get a trademark on a symbol that is thousands of years old. A swastika is a swastika no matter if it is crafted left or right--your point is moot, not right. FYI, the Nazi flag was crafted so that the image would be in clearly seen either left or right.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ... We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
You are right about that, of course. The right swastika is in and of itself not "nazi." FYI, the Nazi flag was crafted so that the image would be in clearly seen either left or right. It was the right swastika, though, that was properly the symbol of that political movement, and the one which you see in its heraldry and publications.
I see psyops everywhere.
Also known as Pecker Pottery.
BTW, your link to BP's live cam in the Gulf is showing some wild stuff right now. Robot subs are torquing on bolts on the top of the BOP. First looks at the BOP and the wellhead I've seen.
I see psyops everywhere.
I see. I can't stop watching. It's become addictive.
U.S. postcard from 1907: _________________________________________________________________________ I've been gone a couple days to the frustrating atmosphere of an area of California suffering over 30% unemployment to return to "Also known as Pecker Pottery"!!! I knew I could count on your for a belly laugh, JT!!!
In all cultures the swastika means "good luck" or "well-being," including America, but the Nazis ruined it.
"All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor and virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation." - John Adams.
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Those are reverse swastikas, not Nazi swastikas. Nazis used crossed-S's, these are crossed-Z's.
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#7. To: TooConservative (#6)
Uh-huh. I'm still right. That was not a Nazi swastika.
#8. To: abraxas (#7)
one group didn't get a trademark on a symbol that is thousands of years old
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and an ancient female adornment with a phallus
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Obama is the miscegenated bastard of a white communist whore. True story.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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