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The cross is a very old and vitually universal symbol. In preliterate societies the vertical and horizontal arms represented a series of opposing qualities: spiritual and worldy, celestial and terrestrial, positive and engative, active and passive. The four points also symbolizid earth, air, fire, and water and the spatial dimensions of height, lenght, width, and depth. The swastika, whose Sanskrit name meant "good luck" was a major symbol of ancient Asian, European, and pre-Columbian American civilizations. For pre-Cilumbian Americans it represents the wheel of life but Hindus perceive it as a sign of a resigned spirit. uddhists believe it is emblemetic of the Buddha's mind. This ancient directed cross is not to be confused with the rightdirected swastika that Germany's Nazis mistakenly took for an Aryan symbol.
Robert Lahm, The Humanities in Western Culture. A search for Human Values, rev. 4th ed. (Boston: Mc Graw Hill, 2004), 176.
ps. The nazi-believe was usually very ignorant. They also took the so-called Ubermensch in a way diffent context then it was originally used......