Definition of Svastikas

1. svastika [n] - See also: svastika

Lexicographical Neighbors of Svastikas

suzanis
suzerain
suzerains
suzerainties
suzerainty
suzukiite
svabite
svanbergite
svarabhakti
svarabhaktis
svaraj
svarajes
svarita
svaritas
svastika
svastikas (current term)
svcs
svedbergs
sveite
svelt
svelte
sveltely
svelteness
sveltenesses
svelter
sveltest
svengali
svengalis
sverdrup
sverdrups

Literary usage of Svastikas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Symbolism of the East and West by Harriet Georgiana M Murray-Aysnley, George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood (1900)
"[A good deal has been made by the English mythological school of writers of the fact that the Christian svastikas point to the left, or westwards, ..."

2. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"... waves, meanders, concentric circles, hatched lines, svastikas, and other geometric«! patterns, often separated into compartments by upright lines, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"are cither svastikas of Hindu and Mycenaean type, or so lost in enveloping arabesques as to be merely decorative. Sech was the only religious art permitted ..."

4. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1907)
"Professor AS Murray long since suggested that the " crosses which Dr. Schliemann calls svastikas, but which, in fact, appear to be only the simplest form or ..."

5. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1895)
"Professor AS Murray long since suggested that the " crosses which Dr. Schliemann calls svastikas, but which, in fact, appear to be only the simplest form or ..."

6. Symbolism of the East and West by Harriet Georgiana M Murray-Aysnley, George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood (1900)
"[A good deal has been made by the English mythological school of writers of the fact that the Christian svastikas point to the left, or westwards, ..."

7. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"... waves, meanders, concentric circles, hatched lines, svastikas, and other geometric«! patterns, often separated into compartments by upright lines, ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"are cither svastikas of Hindu and Mycenaean type, or so lost in enveloping arabesques as to be merely decorative. Sech was the only religious art permitted ..."

9. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1907)
"Professor AS Murray long since suggested that the " crosses which Dr. Schliemann calls svastikas, but which, in fact, appear to be only the simplest form or ..."

10. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1895)
"Professor AS Murray long since suggested that the " crosses which Dr. Schliemann calls svastikas, but which, in fact, appear to be only the simplest form or ..."

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