that's an awful lot of swastikas in the border.

qazwsxedcrfvtgbyhnuj said:
that's an awful lot of swastikas in the border.

I hear that in some corners of the world, it stands for luck. Which I'm sure you want some to be in the dragon's place. :P

That is not Osiris. That is very clearly Ra - Osiris was never pictured as a falcon-headed god, but more usually as a mummiform god. In addition he never bore the sun-disc on his head. That is -literally- the wikipedia article picture for the god, since it bears most of his main iconography.

Sins_and_Virtues said:
I hear that in some corners of the world, it stands for luck. Which I'm sure you want some to be in the dragon's place. :P

qazwsxedcrfvtgbyhnuj said:
that's an awful lot of swastikas in the border.

The original swastika has a different position and meaning. The evil one you know is like what happened to the original pentagram when they started using it downwards (inverted) as a rebellious anti-christian symbol, and in adoration of certain symbolic demon. It became twisted both geometrically and symbolically (negative, chaos, dark, etc.)

Just found out that this image was already uploaded here on the site, just without the fancy borders around it:

post #774799

smat_dragon said:
The original swastika has a different position and meaning. The evil one you know is like what happened to the original pentagram when they started using it downwards (inverted) as a rebellious anti-christian symbol, and in adoration of certain symbolic demon. It became twisted both geometrically and symbolically (negative, chaos, dark, etc.)

Little late to the party, but I'd just like to correct the common misconception that a "real" Nazi hakenkreuz had to be at a 45-degree tilt, because... well, it didn't.

Otherwise, yeah, it was at least two degrees of appropriation: swastikas had become something of a fad at the turn of the century as the Aryan myth mixed with a New Age-y esoteric occultism inspired by pilgrimages to East Asia, to the point they were literally sold as kitschy lucky charms—and since most of the founding Nazis were huffing both Aryanism and occultism, it was the perfect logo for their brand since the symbolism was already well-recognized. But it's somewhat ironic that Hitler standardized the Nazi cross as right-facing, because when ex-Thule Society member Friedrich Krohn originally pitched it as the Party emblem, left-hand meant prosperity and right-hand meant downfall. :^)

qazwsxedcrfvtgbyhnuj said:
that's an awful lot of swastikas in the border.

I had to search pretty hard to find them. I'd have been more likely to write it off as a geometric coincidence considering the rest of the order pattern.

sins_and_virtues said:
Just found out that this image was already uploaded here on the site, just without the fancy borders around it:

post #774799

Dunno why I got a downvote there.