The newspaper in the background is clearly Japanese
- where the gyaku manji and migi manji in the traditional sayagata pattern retain their original meanings as a symbol of faith and forutune.
It's shit that we dumbass Westerners were mainly first exposed to the symbol as part of the Nazi's shitty ideology, nicking simple symbols from "Aryan" culture. But in the normal context, it's a happy little benign symbol of the sun, eternity, the cycle of death and rebirth, the "myriad things" of Taoism, etc, etc.
/seriousblog
Ha ha yes, Nazis! LOL?
( , Sun 22 Nov 2020, 8:44, Share, Reply)
- where the gyaku manji and migi manji in the traditional sayagata pattern retain their original meanings as a symbol of faith and forutune.
It's shit that we dumbass Westerners were mainly first exposed to the symbol as part of the Nazi's shitty ideology, nicking simple symbols from "Aryan" culture. But in the normal context, it's a happy little benign symbol of the sun, eternity, the cycle of death and rebirth, the "myriad things" of Taoism, etc, etc.
/seriousblog
Ha ha yes, Nazis! LOL?
( , Sun 22 Nov 2020, 8:44, Share, Reply)