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Here below a story of the origin and use of the Swastika (swastika)

The Swastika (swastika)

The arms of the swastika can be of different widths and are usually (but not always) straight-lined. The swastika is chiral (that is, it has no mirror symmetry), but the two mirror-image variants have the symmetry of a cyclic group (C4), because every rotation of 90 degrees yields the same figure again.
So there are two swastika variants (卐 and 卍) in terms of shape. The distinction is very clear to see, but the naming of it leads to all kinds of mistakes. It is used inconsistently, sometimes even by the same writer. The two variants are called:
• left-pointing and right-pointing
• anticlockwise (counterclockwise) and clockwise rotation (clockwise)
However, that is ambiguous, hence the confusion over the use of all these designations. A correct unambiguous designation for 卐 would be: the upper side branch (or arm) points to the right. This shape would be referred to by many people as counterclockwise[1]. But the shape designation says nothing about the direction of the rotation itself. For example, the Falun Gong has a 卍 swastika on its website that always rotates clockwise for a while and then counterclockwise for a while.
Sometimes the 卍 variant is called Sauwastika (also often written sauvastika), but this is not considered authentic. It seems to have arisen from a sound change in Sanskrit. Usually both variants are simply referred to as “Swastika”.
The main association is with the sun, rising from the east and setting in the west. That is clockwise in the northern hemisphere (and looking south). In Western culture this is seen as positive. (light, day, clockwise) In Buddhism, the “sauwastika” 卍 is almost always used as an original symbol for the sun, life and health. The “counterclockwise” 卐 is considered evil and in Buddhism an unintentional mistake by its creator. As a positive symbol[2] see the Red swastika and the Hebrew swastika[3].
Associations with the rotation of the night starry sky around the pole star are also sometimes mentioned. That is clearer because the pole star can only be seen from the northern hemisphere and looking north. The direction of rotation is then counterclockwise: to the left. This is experienced as negative (dark, night, left). Added to this is the collective experience of Nazism, which used the 卐 (counterclockwise) swastika. The Latin word sinister means "left", see also right path[4].
The two associations of sun and pole star are confusing because they are opposite. The shape of the swastika is not reflected in the sky. Yet this symbol can also be seen in two ways: a right-handed swastika is a mirror image of a left-handed swastika. Day-night, left-right, dark-light: our world can just as easily be interpreted as twofold as one, three or fourfold. Thus, Hinduism knows the symbol as dual. In itself from the inside out: so one 卐 in the other 卍 or next to each other 卍卐卍卐卍卐. In buildings, the swastika is made with holes, so that both appearances can be seen on both sides of the wall[5]
“Sauwastikas” 卍 are used, among others, by the followers of the originally Tibetan Bön religion to show that they have a different religion than the followers of Tibetan Buddhism who use a 卐 swastika. The meaning of both symbols is the same for the followers of both religions. In spiritual teachings, anything can be contrary to human imagination. In Taoism, for example, the rule is that 'the Tao that can be described/named is not the Tao'.