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May 25, 2022 • 24 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
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The word ‘swastika’ is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘It is’, ‘Well Being’, ‘Good Existence, and ‘Good Luck’

Let us see where else #Swastika is found in the world

#thread #Archaeology

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Etruscan pendant with swastika symbols from Bolsena, Italy, 700–650 BC. Louvre Image
Boeotian amphora, Potnia Therōn, detail Thebes, 680 -670 BCE National Archaeological Museum, NM 220, AT 119
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Geometric pyxis
Date ca. 750 BCE
Museum of ancient Agora, Greece

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SWASTIKA on dress of a Phoenician Sun Priestess, found from Phoenician tomb in Cyprus Image
The Samarra bowl, Sumerian (ca. 4000 BC) at on exhibit at the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin.

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Painted pottery jar with geometric design. Majiayao Culture: Banshan type (c. 2600-2300 BCE)
Majiayao people lived in upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu, eastern Qinghai and northern Sichuan, China

HongKong Museum of Art. CC unforth
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Bird and swastika, detail from geometric amphorae, Cycladic style. Finding the cemetery of Ancient Thera, 8th to 7th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Fira.

Thera is a Minoan settlement site in Greek island in the Aegean Sea, in the Cyclades Image
Hirschfeld Krater. Scene depicting ekphora and a chariot race. Funeral of Patroclus? Source: John Boardman 1998.
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Melian amphora featuring Artemis. Source John Boardman 1998.

Melos is an island in the Aegean Sea roughly 110 kilometres (68 miles) east of mainland Greece Image
Bell idol, Ancient Greek, c700 BC.

The work of Theban potters of the Late Geometric period, in ancient Boeotia.

From the Louvre, Paris. Image
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Funnel Krater CULTURE: Daunian PERIOD: 6th Century BC: Collection of Mr. Leopoldo Benguerel, Barcelona

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Swastika on a bowl
760 BC. NG Prague, Kinský Palace, NM-H10 1849 Image
Swastika city of Roman origin mosaic of the second century currently in Tunis. Image
A Roman floor mosaic with geometrical designs and swastikas. 2nd-3rd century CE, Tarraco. (Archaeological Museum of Tarragon, Spain
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Pottery exhibiting a "swastika" decoration; Museum of history of Yerevan, Armenia

Stonegrave Petroglyph Swastikas from Ancient Armenia Kakhik Shamkhor Armenia

Swastika is called the "arevakhach" and "kerkhach"in Armenia Image
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Armenian eternity symbol in Vahanavank monastery, Syunik, Armenia Image
#Swastika engraving found on Remains of ancient temples dating 120 AD in Xin'anjiang Reservoir

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Swastika at the Temple of Hadrian (123 AD) in Ephesus, built to commemorate the Emperor’s visit. Image
Fragmentary Stele with Orant Monk. The Monk is framed in Swastika and four petal flowers
Date: 6th–7th century
Geography: Made in Egypt, Saqqara (?)
Medium: Limestone

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Skastika symbol in the window of Lalibela Rock hewn churches, Ethiopia Image
Ceramic Cup Kamiros, 700 -600 BC British Museum

#swastika

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#Swastika was also used by Novajo people (Native American) until 1940. Novajo dropped their sacred symbol after it was desecrated by Nazis.
Swastika type symbol on a Mycenaean Pot
~1200 BCE
Greece.

The oldest civilization of Greece: studies of the Mycenaean age
by Hall, H. R. (Harry Reginald), 1873-1930 archive.org/details/oldest…Image

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Feb 10
Thread 3

WHEN WOMEN WERE LINEAGE, NOT DEPENDENTS
(Travancore, matriliny, 1920s)

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Here is the part most people don’t expect.

These systems did not vanish in antiquity.
They survived into the 20th century.

This is not rock art.
This is documentation. Image
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In parts of Kerala and Travancore, lineage followed the woman.

Property.
Household identity.
Social continuity.

Children belonged to the mother’s line.
Not the father’s surname.

This was not chaos.
It was a functioning social order.
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Relationships were recognised through custom, not sacrament.

Sambandham-type unions existed.
Women could enter and exit relationships.
Sexual exclusivity was not the foundation of legitimacy.

A child did not need a certified father to be socially valid.

That detail matters.
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Feb 7
1️⃣ Every art history course starts in Greece.

But here's what they don't mention: almost every Greek painting from the Classical period is gone. Lost.

Meanwhile, in India, 700 years of continuous wall paintings still exist.

Let's talk about what survives vs what we worship. Image
2️⃣ Ajanta Caves.

Painting phases dated 2nd century BCE – 5th century CE.

That means: Ajanta begins before Alexander. And continues after Rome adopts Christianity.

This isn't parallel art. This is a continuous painting tradition spanning 700 years. Image
3️⃣ Where are Greek paintings from 480–323 BCE?

Answer from classical scholarship: almost entirely lost.

What survives:
• Roman wall paintings (1st c. BCE–1st c. CE)
• Literary praise by Pliny the Elder
• Copies, not originals

An origin remembered by texts vs one preserved in pigment.Image
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Feb 5
1️⃣ The first diamond ever touched by human hands came from Indian soil. Golconda mines, 4th century BCE. We didn't dig for profit. We picked them from riverbeds like pebbles. 💎

Then someone realized they could own what the earth gave freely. Image
2️⃣ 1600s: Golconda diamonds weighed 23 million carats annually. The world's entire supply. Tavernier documented it. Shah Jahan embedded them in the Peacock Throne.

We controlled brilliance itself. Image
3️⃣ 1739: Nadir Shah walks into Delhi. Walks out with the Kohinoor and the Peacock Throne. Combined worth? Impossible to calculate. The throne alone held 26,733 gems.

First lesson: What glitters gets taken. Image
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Jan 30
1/ ASI admits stone jars occur across Assam, Laos, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

That admission changes everything. Once you acknowledge geographic spread, local narratives collapse. Interpretation must go regional. 🧵 Image
@himantabiswa @ASIGoI @MinOfCultureGoI @tourismgoi @gssjodhpur @UNESCO 2/ ASI records no present-day tribe claims authorship.

That's not ambiguity. That's normal. Mortuary traditions outlast populations, languages, identities by millennia.

Continuity ≠ authorship. Image
3/ ASI calls them ancestral bone repositories — already placing them in secondary burial systems.

The same function archaeologically proven at the Plain of Jars.

Function aligns across regions. Not coincidence. Image
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Jan 22
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Meet Bhagirathi — the river that dragged Ganga from Shiva's hair to earth.

Rigveda calls her "the one who flows with the speed of thought."

Today? A trickle dying before Gangotri even starts.

From cosmic torrent to seasonal sewer. Thread 🧵 Image
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Bhagirathi begins at Gaumukh — "cow's mouth" glacier.

1935: 300-meter ice wall, roaring.
2025: Snout retreated 3+ km uphill. Glacier lost 25% volume since the 1960s.

Your Himalayan trek selfie is on her corpse. 📸❄️ Image
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Vedic seers saw her as divine:
नदीं न संनादतीं दमूनसम् (RV 10.75.4)
"The river that roars like a bull in rut."

Now? Summer discharge down 40% since 1990.
Sometimes she doesn't reach Devprayag to become "Ganga."

Literal identity crisis. 🏔️💧 Image
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Jan 22
You already know that for over 2,000 years, Indian smiths forged steel so sharp it cut European swords in half. So resilient it became legend across continents.

By 1900, those same smiths were classified as backward. Primitive. Incapable of innovation.

What happened between? 🧠⚔️ You don't know!!

A 5-step manual for erasure. READ On 👇

#decolonisation #UncropTheTruth

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Step 1: Extract the technique

Indian wootz steel arrived in British laboratories in 1795. Samples were analysed, chemical compositions documented, papers published in the Royal Society. The steel was credited to "Eastern origin." The smiths who forged it? Unnamed. Untraced. Irrelevant.

The technique was extracted. The technician was erased.

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Step 2: Disrupt the ecosystem

Wootz steel required specific forests for charcoal, particular ores, seasonal smelting cycles. Colonial forest laws between 1855–1878 criminalized wood collection, turned smelting zones into "reserved land," cut access to raw materials.

The furnaces went cold. Not because knowledge disappeared, but because resources were locked behind permits the smiths couldn't obtain.

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