ManWoman
Gentle Swastika

Using over 400 rare and unique photos and illustrations, visionary Pop artist ManWoman shows you the playful ways the Swastika was used before World War Two especially in America where it was the homegrown lucky sign of Native people.

An eye-opening investigation into the hidden sacred history of the swastika and the enormous heritage we have lost because of swastikaphobia.n

TABLE OF CONTENTS

?Introduction

?Swastika Vision
Why I took on the job of re-educating people about the history of the swastika.

?Part 1
Origin of the Swastika
Mesopotamia and India. Islamic use. Atlantis?
Genital shields of aboriginalnBrazilian women. Mayans, Aztecs.
Greek priestesses branded Swastikas onntheir arms.
Goddess figures dug up at ancient Troy have Swastikas on thenvulva.
Romans took the Swastika across Europe. Egyptians?

?Part 2
Use and Misuse of a Symbol
Types of Swastikas. The Swavastika or backwards Swastika.
Various namesnfor the Swastika.
Amulets, talismans and hex signs.
Pre-Nazi German use.
Ancient swords. My conversation with Helga, a Hitler Youth.
Hitler'snmightiest magical weapon.
How Hitler came to choose it for his flag.
Hebrewnreligious sign found on ancient synagogues.
Essene Swastikas.
The Cabala.
Jewish usage.

?Part 3
In Western Cultures
Swastika, Ontario, Canada. The town's struggle to keep its name after thenwar.
Three Canadian hockey teams called the Swastikas.
Coca Cola's luckynSwastika watchfob 1925.
Jackie Kennedy's Indian dress.
Swastika, New York,nSwastika, New Mexico.
Boy Scouts Swastika badge.
Detroit car with Swastikanhood ornament.
Swastika surfboards from Los Angeles.
Swastika shouldernpatch of 45th Infantry division US Army.
What every girl wants--her ownnSwastika. The Girls' Club of Ladies Home Journal.
Emblem of the DawnnPatrol, American volunteer pilots in WW1.
Quilt patterns, architecture.
ThenWild West--Swastika saddles, Swastika branding irons.
Chief Dan George praised my efforts to cleanse the Swastika.
What it meansnto native Indians, First Nations people.
Dozens of examples--Hopi, Navaho,nCree, Haida, Sioux nations. In 1940 native Indians in Arizona, New Mexiconin a solemn ceremony gave up their sacred symbol.
British uses of the Swastika including Rudyard Kipling and Celtic tattoondesigns.
Swastika Laundry in Dublin, Ireland.
The Nordic use--the Hammer ofThor. Viking swords. Ancient Runes.
Finnish Air Force's blue Swastika.nCarlsberg beer trademark.
Iceland Steamship logo. When the last czar ofnRussia was imprisoned with his family in 1917, the Romanoff girlsnembroidered lucky swastikas on fabric before their deaths by the Bolsheviks.

?Part 4
In Eastern Cultures
Tattooed on women in Africa to ensure fertility.
Gold weights from WestnAfrica. China and Japan.
Samurai armor and Ninja throwing stars.
Tattooednon monks in Tibet.
The Dalai Lama's throne.

?Part 5
As a Mystical Symbol
Hindu uses. Sacred Fire. Ganesha. Holy spots are marked with Swastika.
Sacred Heart of Buddha. Buddha's footprints.
The Jains, who arennon-violent, make the sign of the Swastika.
Christian symbol from thencatacombs.
Gnostic grafitti.
Occult Swastikas--Theosophists, Rosicrucians,nMasons, Golden Dawn, Transcendental Meditation, Pythagorus, MadamenBlavatsky, Krishnamurti, Rudolf Steiner, William Butler Yeats. AliesternCrowley claimed Hitler stole the Swastika from him.

?Conclusion.
Symbols of the Eternal--cross, star of David, ankh, yin-yang,nsun disk, spiral.
Sun gods, lightning gods, fire gods, creativity,nfertility, matrix of creation, sexual meanings.

?The Swastika as a Tattoo
Non-Nazi Swastika tattoos photographed at NYC and Toronto tattoo conventions.

?Friends of the Swastika
Rapidly-growing movement. The Declaration of Independence of the Swastikansigned by artists, poets, tattooers and others. The use of the swastika by pagans, punk rockers and new age seekers.