Swastika??? Shown in the Movie? - Winchester '73 (1950) Discussion

[–] SonicAndy 14 years ago

You know, you really should read up about these things before you post. The swastika has (almost) always been an auspicious sign. It's one of Buddha's holy signs, for instance.

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[–] TheAdlerian 14 years ago

I saw an interesting article is a science magazine years ago that gave an explanation for why swastikas have appears around the world. A scientist simulated a cloud with certain dust in it, then he ran electricity through it to simulate lightning. The cloud became magnetized and the poles repelled each other and a swastika shape formed!

The scientist hypothesized that this doesn't happen often but enough that ancient people around the world saw it and thought it was a symbol from some mystical source.

I was amazed by that.

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[–] sjl004 14 years ago

Yes I noticed it.

Nazi one is at 45degree angle.

Buddhism used it as well.

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[–] upndn 12 years ago

In the 50's my parents traded clothing for Indian rugs and pottery north of Albuquerque.
I grew up with a red, black, and cream color rug in my bedroom with the swastika style
design in each corner of the rug.

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[–] Captain_Augustus_McCrae 12 years ago

The swastika is seen on all sorts of items in the Old West. Blankets, as the OP mentioned, poker chips, holsters, saddles and riding tack, chaps, and many other objects were so decorated. To try and pretend otherwise is rank revisionism. By all means, let's not use the swastika today, on modern-made items. The connection to Nazism is too blatant. But don't try and remove it from its past context- in ancient Palestine it was used as a decorative motif on synagogues.

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[–] PurpleProseOfCairo 10 years ago

In the Sixties in Dublin, you used to see vans everywhere from the "Swastika Laundry", with the big symbol on the side. No one thought it was weird.

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[–] willieboyd2 10 years ago

In the closeups Young Bull's swastika is right handed, but when the Indians charge the Cavalry camp the swastika has reversed direction.

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[–] silverr8c 10 years ago

In the closeups Young Bull's swastika is right handed, but when the Indians charge the Cavalry camp the swastika has reversed direction.

oThe reason it is reversed is because you are looking at it from a different side. If you paint any symbol on the outside of a window then go inside and look at the symbol it will be reversed. The same thing will happen to a blanket. The only way it will not be reversed is if the blanket has two layers sewn together

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[–] juanmonge69 10 years ago

I visited the "Corn Palace" in Mitchell, South Dakota. There are old pictures of the corn palace with the symbol burned into the side. The swastika was also on the cover of books by Rudyard Kipling. My college Professor said that if you knit or crochet the swastika is a very easy to make.

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[–] liscarkat (16522) 4 years ago

A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands, California, which was built in 1898, has right-facing swastikas in the parquet flooring near the entrance. Amazingly, the floor hasn't been ripped out or covered with a rug. An old hotel in downtown Redlands was built in the early 20th century by an enthusiast of Native Americana, who incorporated a large right-facing swastika on the building's facade. Complainers in the 1990s, ignorant of the symbol's pre-Nazi American Indian origin, became so annoying that the owner hid it behind a large plastic sign.

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