[TheForge] historical blacksmithing questions

[rfertner at cox.net]

Sorry, some the message didn't get sent, so I'm reposting:

Jim Bowie's original knife supposedly has some meteoric iron worked into it.
 The swastica or crooked cross is an ancient symbol found worldwide. It is a stylized solar symbol and was often used to denote good luck or fortune. The Budhists, Hindus, Navaho, the ancient Celts all used variations of the swastica. Hilter was into pagan and ancient mythology. He adopted the swastica as a symbol of his beliefs and party. This has tainted the meaning of the swastica in the public consciousness to such a degree, I don't think it will ever regain its original meaning. This has upset many in India where the swastica still has an old religius meaning and they can't use it publicly outside of India without being accused of being Nazis. The Nazis "obtained" that statue because it had a swastica on it and it fed into their delusion of having the power of history being them.
Rob
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> ---- dann at wctatel.net wrote: 
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> > Wasn't Davy Crocket's or Jim Bowie's  fighting knife reportedly fabricated
> > using meteorite metal ?
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> > Re Nazi- Buddhist Art
> > Good art,  but putting this all together...
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> > The Buddhist statue- carving, made from the meteorite with the carving
> > done an estimated at,  or about the Year One Thousand.  The meteorite is
> > believed to have fallen 10,000 years ago, and the image is a a guy with an
> > ear ring and a  big hat and swastica on his chest, and his hand on his
> > groin, with his armour having a special very male protrusion.  Is it all
> > about a manual on how an early Nazi gets relief ?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dann
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> > 
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