Re: Svastika words in many languages

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen@...
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 12:51 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: Svastika words in many languages
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> --- In cybalist@..., rao.3@... wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@..., "petegray" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > > It is also, of course, found very early in Greece.
> >
> > More years ago than I care to mention, I remember reading (in a
> > book whose date (not my reading it, thank you) predates 1945) that
> > the swastika is one of the patterns young children produced when
> > allowed to scribble freely (though I doubt if having precisely

four

> > arms is that common among children)
>
> I thought most of them had two?
>
> Torsten

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> In my collection of kooky links I have one to a particularly kooky
website owned by a Neo-Nazi who draws far-reaching conclusions from
the fact that the swastika represents the numbers two, four and
eight, both geometrically and "linguistically":
>
> "It is perhaps worth noting that also, the word swastika itself
seems to reflect this mathematical sequence of 2, 4, 8: the two (2)
four-letter parts, swas and tika; split into the four (4) two-letter
parts, sw, as, ti, ka; for a total of eight (8) letters. Note that
the two parts, ti and ka, are separate syllables, but the two parts,
sw and as, are spoken as a single syllable, and thus appear to have
less justification to be classed as two parts, although the outer s
on each of these two parts probably helps to justify the division."
> In case you don't know, 2, 4 and 8 are successive powers of two, so
the natural conclusion is that the swastika anticipates the binary
system and computer science.
>
> :))
>
> Piotr
>
In case I haven't mentioned it: I majored in computer science.
I thought computer science was based on I Ching (cf the South Korean
flag)?

Here's some more kooky stuff:

http://watch.pair.com/merovingian.html
http://www.giveshare.org/churchhistory/fletcher/chapter2.html
http://www.viewfromthewall.com/fwch10.htm
and search for "danite".

This is getting spooky.
Perhaps I should give up the blabla on "dan" etc lest someone should
believe it. Rather let sleeping dogs lie?
"Archontes Tanaiton", indeed!
But I can confirm that the Danes are very fond of red and white.

Torsten