The Swastika, origin and earliest traces.

This active solar symbol, rotating on its axis, means the curse of the sun around the earth (visual effect from the earth (note 1)).This pictogram dates back to the prehistoric times. The swastika must be understood, at any period, as a religious symbol and not as a script letter.

The earliest representation appears on the phallic figurines (2) in mammoth ivory found in the Upper Paleolithic settlement of Mezin (Ukraine).

Face Back So-called “ Mezin bird figurine”. About 10.000 bc.

Figurine 1 Figurine 2

The migration of the swastika from the perimeter of the Black Sea, which seems to be the cradle of the civilization, will be effected by large circles to reach until the American continent.

The oldest evidences of its progression can be found in the ancient civilizations of the Balkans, Anatolia and the Middle East at the period succeeding to the probably flooding of the Black Sea during the 7th millennium bc. http://romanianhistoryandculture.webs.com/theblackseaflood.htm

The immersed ancient shores of the fresh water lake are keeping their secrets until present.

Balkans :

Bulgaria. Kurdjali (Kardzhali). Nephrite(*). 7/6th mill.bc. Similar find in early neolithic Ovcharovo Gorata Early Neolithic site at Kurdjali (Peikov, 1986;

Kostov, 2004a;2004b; 2005)

(*)“ The Balkan ‘nephrite culture’ in prehistoric Europe has to be declared as one of the earliest in human civilization not only on the continent, but worldwide.”

http://mgu.academia.edu/RuslanKostov/Papers/1177126/Gemmological_significance_of_the_prehistoric_Balkan_nephrite_culture_cases_from_Bulgaria By comparison : The first Chinese jade artefacts (simple earrings) were found in the Zhaobaogou culture, Xinglongwa period (6200-5400 bc.)

Yougoslavia.Tecic seal.Starcevo culture.5500 bc. Romania.Petresti loom weight.Turdas.5500-5000 bc.

Gold painted terracotta. Varna 1.Tomb 4. 2nd/1st mill. bc. Bulgaria. Varna. 1500-500 bc

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