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Published: 2013-03-14 10:17:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 1539; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 20
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This is burnt wood, it's the bottom of a display case I'm working on for my living room.It's been called a number of things - Hakenkreuz, Sonnenkreuz, Sonnenrad - Hook Cross, Sun Cross, Sun Wheel. No, not here Swastika - I'm fairly certain, although I could be wrong, that Swastikas are angular. In Maine, my cluster stocks Church books with Greek Crosses, the cores being Swastikas, in Liturgical Worship. So that's an example of a Swastika as opposed to a Hook Cross.
The rounded Hooked Cross has been seen on Viking Rune Stones and the like. It's been other places, too. I think it qualifies as one of those Universal Subconscious symbols. Like the Triquetra and the Number Three - all have been used someone universally, in different forms, interculturally, intercontinentally. The Hook Cross and Sun Cross seem to be the *most* common of them, however.
Here's a link: [link] . I normally wouldn't use Wikipedia, but I'm really too lazy to write all the info myself, this morning.
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Sun Cross is correct for this one, since it's a blend of the Hook Cross and the Sunwheel. This is also called a "broken sunwheel". These "rounded" ones were most common during the Viking age and were mostly painted on Viking shields. The Hook Cross is one of thundergod's holy signs.
It's also supposed to be in the other direction, but this is nice anyway.
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not really... is it `cause it looks cool or `cause its old or...?
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Neither. For answer to your inquiries refer to the introductory information.
I study Runology and symbology in general. The Hooked Cross has been, and is used by, a plenitude of cultures, for a mass of reasons.
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Thank you! I'll let you know when I post the finished project!
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Nicely done. This pic takes me back to the wood shop classes of my years as a high school student. I never made anything quite like this, but it still brings back some memories.
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Must have been interesting to have had Shop classes. They had one or two in my High School, but because we've become such a bunch of whiny yellow-bellies here it was all about how some stupid kid cut off his free-time hand using a saw improperly. We never did get to making anything.
I can't imagine schools would take well to someone making a Hooked Cross in Shop Class. People can be, well, you know... pansies.
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No, I don't think anyone ever did swastikas or anything like that, but I do recall seeing two people making a Voodoo doll in needlework class that caused some controversy.
There was also an older pupil that made a battle hatchet in metalwork class, and later attempted to create a moonshine distiller in secracy. His plan was according to the rumours to create the parts one by one at school using their raw materials, bringing them home and welding them all together at his place. I guess he was what you would call a rebel, and he did inspire at least one other pupil to create a battle mace.
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Voodoo dolls, eh? WHen I was in Middle/High School my sister got me into that sort of thing. It never really took my interest like Germania did.
Although, if they would have let me build a battle-axe... Or a moonshine distillery... I do have a little basement. Although, I think I ought to learn beer brewing first as I grow hops. Or absinth craftery as I grow wormwood. Well, whatever!
God bless!
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Thank you much! I should be posting the rest of the product soon - this is the bottom of an elevated display case for my living room.
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You're welcome, I'm looking forward to seeing it!
You don't consider working as a carpenter, do you?
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Actually, over vacations from school I work for my father's Construction company. I guess you can say that there's a bit of sawdust in my blood!
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Noice!
You should open a business for traditionalist furniture.
With your talent you would come far, that much is certain
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Yes, that would be a good trade for me to learn. I've actually wanted to learn furniture making for some time, truth be told...
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Follow that notion! You'd definitely go far with those ambitions
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i like it..and you are right,its not an swastika...i have seen this symbol in budhist temples in china,so its ok...great deviation!
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Thank you, first of all, for your comment! I've yet to post the rest of the product, the inside is drying - I accidentally primed the interior with oil, instead of acrylic paint. The side has a Patriarchal and Iron Cross as well as an image of Jormungand twirling himself around a Sun Wheel.
As to the rest of your comment:
It's an everywhere kind of symbol. Besides, I think symbols are morally neutral, really. It's why, as a practical Catholic, I have no fear of things like Runes. The Runes are, in addition to a esoteric system, a very mundane one - an alphabet. But there are still some who object to my use of Runes, accusing me of witchcraft, or whatever. Ah. But I don't want to rant too terribly much...
All symbols have power, I think, but we also imbue symbols with a power of our own. The Hakenkreuz, and by extension Swastika, have been assumed or presumed to be tools of fear for so long that people forget the massive, pan-conscious identity they had before WWII. And after. It aggravates me that people are so weakminded as to lambast a symbol just because of a brief period in human history.
I sometimes chuckle. A lot of Catholics in my hometown think that the Hooked Cross , and the Swastika, are evil symbols - and yet, lo and behold, in our Liturgical Books there are often Swastikas worked into the covers. Eh, but whatever.
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yes i see your point...we are connected then..i like to use symbols from Kabballah and Jewish tradition in my artworks,becouse i see them as what they only are,symbols..
what a shame that they acusse you of withcraft...what an old-aged idea jaja
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I used to study Jewish Kabbalah. Fascinating stuff. Actually, the Jews used to have a Swastika that somehow represented the Tetragrammaton. Go figure! Fascinating stuff, that Kabbalah can be. I don't do much with it any more, but it played an important role in my conversion.
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i see...well i guess it captured us both...i must look for that tetragrammaton sign you said..thanks for the info! God Bless!
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I think it's in the Wikipaedia link I posted.
God met jou,
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