Symbolic Explosion: Swastika

“Symbolic Explosion” happened about 50,000 years ago and was to depict the various forms of human art, cultural presentations, standard rituals and probably, the power assimilated within. Symbol became universally accepted by kingdoms, countries and societies as a natural and effective expression for whatever the symbol may represent. Symbolism has been given various interpretations by laureates, be it to adorn or to showcase religion or to represent a society or tell a story. It may be more powerful than a religion or money or land or violence. Its presence is as pictures or images, yet, is capable of narrating an entire story revolving around the subject that it represents. Humans have grown up with the symbols. Over time, symbol has become a habit or an innate tendency for the human race.

Out of the many millions of symbols being used worldwide, a symbol commonly known as

SWASTIKA

draws more expressions than required, both in terms of good and bad. On one side, a Swastika is a revered and

In the artifact Textile No. T.231-1923 held at the V & A Museum in London, there can be seen small Swastika designs. It has been dated between AD300-600 and found at Qau-el-Kebir, near Asyut. A motif showing a rotational symmetric arrangement of, often, four birds’ heads, is a classic example of the Swastika representation. It is in Bronze Age Central Asian, European Steppe and also in Iron Age Scythian and European (Baltic and Germanic) culture, and called the TIERWIRBEL (the German for “Animal Whorl” or “Whirl of Animals”. There are more wider diffusions of this Asiatic theme proposed to the Pacific and North American regions. The Neolithic culture of Southern Europe areas Serbia, Craotia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, known as the Vinca culture, dating back to around 8,000 years ago, have also used the symbol Swastika. The depictions can be seen in the pictorial