Here is a bridge completed in 1905 in Yuma, Arizona, which now spans the Colorado River and is one of the few remaining government-built structures in the United States to feature swastikas (there are 47 on the bridge). It was built by is the “US Reclamation Service (USRS)”, who picked up the idea for the swastika from India.

Swastikas are found everywhere in Hindu temples, signs, altars, paintings and iconography of India and Nepal from the past and present. It is used in religious designs and is found on various temples, religious scriptures, gifts, the tops of letters, etc. throughout India, so it is considered a very sacred and lucky symbol and is mixed with various things that have to do with Hindu culture, and even a reputable literary magazine in Calcutta is called Swastika. Swastikas appear, in any direction, on the chests of some statues of Gautam Buddha, but due to the connection with Nazism, Buddhists have been making swastikas that "look" to the left since the mid-twentieth century. Such swastikas are often found on packaged food in China, which indicates a vegetarian product that even strict Buddhists can eat, while a swastika is often sewn onto the collar of the shirts of Chinese children to protect them from evil spirits. Buddha statue and Buddhist temple in Korea:

Here it is in India and is one of the last remaining things left by those who call themselves Aryans:

It appears with two letters S on top of each other at right angles on the clothes of the goddess Athena wisdom, arts and combat, and the patroness of the city of Athens, and this is depicted on a vase from the Classical Greek era:

Here is the swastika in Rome. Here it is on the Ara Pacis Augustae, an altar built to commemorate the peace that Augustus "secured". This swastika can be seen in Greek designs in this same form, and for this reason such a design is called the "Greek Key":

Before its use by the Nazis, the swastika was a popular motif seen in Western architecture, from the Paris Opera House to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where a swastika in the form of a "Greek key" can be seen above the entrance:

In Baden-Powell's 1921 (pre-Nazi) book "What Scouts Can Do: More Yarns" they write that the Bishop of Winchester who died in 1366 had a swastika (pictured below) or "Scout Badge of Gratitude", which at that time was called a "Fylfot" and was said to symbolize obedience or submission because they The bent sides of the cross represented human legs in a kneeling position. He then goes on to explain how it was used in history by the Indians, Native Americans, Trojans, Greeks, Vikings, and how it possibly came from one continent to another via a continent that was in the Atlantic Ocean (Atlantis, the sunken continent), and had four rivers, each flowing in a different direction, and that the swastika was a map of Atlantis showing those four rivers flowing from the same place. He then goes on to explain how that badge now marks the community of all Scouts around the world, and whenever someone does a good deed to a Scout, they give him that badge as a token of gratitude, which in a way makes him a member of that brotherhood and gives him the right to receive help from any Scout, anytime, anywhere. He then says that Scouts look out for anyone wearing that badge, ask (her or him) if they can do anything. help. The sign looked like this:

The swastika (above) also features another ancient symbol called the Fleur-de-lys (it represents an artistic version of the flower), whose origin is unknown. It seems to go all the way back to Assyria, 3000 BC, where it probably had some connection with the royal line, and later appears in Crete, India and Egypt, and after that on some Greek and Roman coins. This flower began to be associated with kings in the Middle Ages, and was definitely appropriated by King Philip II of France (1180-1214), and possibly his father Louis VII (1137-1180), but as a symbol it appears on coins and some other objects from the 10th century, while it becomes associated with royal lines around the 11th-12th centuries. century. In England it has been called Fleur-de-lis or Flower-de-luce since the 16th century. It appears throughout history on many royal coats of arms, shields, all sorts of objects (including the coat of arms of Bosnia, on the coat of arms of the town of Laško in Slovenia, on the coat of arms of the Spanish royal flag, etc.), but also on fences, such as on the old doors of the White House from 1917:

Here it is in the cathedral (Bourges) from the 15th century. This shape is made of stained glass and those three petals symbolize the trinity. Angels carry the shield below, there is also a dove and the question is whether it is designed so that the mother and child above represent Semiramis and Tammuz and the trinity with Nimrod from Babylon, or Jesus and Horus from Egypt (the trinity with Osiris), instead of what people would really think...?

It is enough to know that this "devil" has a fleur-de-lys upside down on his head to know that it is some obscure symbol:

The swastika was a symbol often used by North American Indians, especially southwestern tribes such as the Navajo (they were also used by the Apaches), and swastikas found in excavations in the Ohio Valley date back to 1200-1400. years. It did not have the same meaning in all tribes. In the Hopi tribe it represented the wandering Hopi clans, while in the Navajo tribe it represented a log-log in a whirlwind, which is a sacred shape for them, representing a legend that was used in healing rituals. Until 1930, many items and other souvenirs had swastikas on them. Soon after the start of World War II, the tribes met and agreed that they would no longer use the swastika because it had now become something that symbolized evil. Here is a Navajo rug from the early 20th century:

Here is another Indian rug:

Here is an old picture, judging by the clothes, you could say the fashion of the late 19th century: