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Few symbols in human history carry heavier burdens than the swastika.

For many people, the symbol immediately evokes memories of the twentieth century, of conquest, ideology, empire, and unimaginable suffering. That association cannot simply be dismissed. History leaves wounds, and symbols sometimes become scarred by the uses to which human beings put them.

Yet symbols often possess histories older than the civilizations that later seize them.

Long before the twentieth century, the swastika appeared across India, Greece, Troy, Central Asia, China, Japan, and among Celtic and Native traditions. It appeared so frequently that scholars long ago recognized that humanity had inherited something older than politics.

Something deeper.

Something connected to movement.

Because the swastika is not simply a cross.

It…

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