thursday 1 Posted September 28, 2007 Share Posted September 28, 2007 Got time on your hands? Help out, go use Google Earth. Sept. 27: The Navy will spend as much as $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks complex that resembles a swastika from the air. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20996515/ Link to post Share on other sites
Red Indian Chief Tom Rubber 0 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Perhaps they meant it to mean a temple? Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Most "temple" map symbol manji (swastikas) are "left-handed" (bent in the opposite direction). Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 Originally Posted By: Ezorisu Most "temple" map symbol manji (swastikas) are "left-handed" (bent in the opposite direction). were they modified like that after WWII or have they always been left facing? Link to post Share on other sites
soubriquet 0 Posted September 29, 2007 Share Posted September 29, 2007 When the nazis dopted the swastika, they changed the direction of the arms. Whether deliberate or a mistake, I don't know. Whatever the traditional direction long pre-dates the nazi's. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 i thought that but wasn't sure Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 I've seen/heard long discussions on the "ura"/"omote" (front-side/back-side) view of the manji symbol as it appears sometimnes as a motif on cut-out screens, such that you see it "left-handed" when going into a temple, and "nazi-handed" on the way out. Supposedly each has an inherent symbolism, but neither are anything remotely related to the fascist ideology that coopted the symbol. Link to post Share on other sites
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