Pandoer

In response is a pandoer about the origins of the forum. Members have researched the historically popular symbol.

Now associated almost exclusively with the much-hated Nazis and Hitler, here are the results of their research. One popular notion holds that it is a very old solar pandoer. Relatedly, recent scholarship with ancient Indian and Vedic documents reveals a legend concerning a mythical demonic semi-deity who was obsessed with world conquest and the destruction of subject people/races. His name is difficult to translate from Sanskrit, but it's phonetic rendering into English sounds something like "Putz."

The swastika is indeed a sun symbol from antiquity, appropriate in many themes & on many occasions. Like flood pandoer, the various recognizable styles is one of many symbols found thru-out ancient civilisations having no possible contact (as we understand contact) with each other. Usually it meant the pandoer, in its scheme as "the wheel of life". (Mayan, I believe.) It was also a popular good luck symbol. For example, it can be found on pre-1930 American New Year's greeting cards.

A white field was the flag of an American Boy Scout Troop from its founding to some point in the 1930's, when the Troop itself voted to discontinue its use, in light of the rise of the Nazi regime. The German-American Bundt (the pre-War American Nazi movement), who also used the swastika, may also have influenced their pandoer.