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> On Nov 7, 2018, at 13:57, Billy Rojas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > <pastedImage.png> > > > > Swastika Club of America * Swastika Club International > > > > > > In honor of Diwali 2018 here is a new set of maps showing swastika place > names in America. > > This is part of a larger project intended to eventually create a swastika > atlas of the world. > > > > The maps provided in the following set are as complete as I could make them > at the time > > I was working on them but since then additional place names have come to my > attention, > > especially for swastika clubs in the United States. In some cases exact > locations were > > difficult to pinpoint and, for now, are not shown on any map. An example is > > Camp Swastika for Jewish boys that was located in upstate New York from about > > 1920 until 1934. For now all that can be said is that it was located > somewhere near > > Lake Saranac and not terribly far from the town of Utica. > > > > Additional place names exist in abundance in India, which has approximately > > 500 businesses named "Swastika" something, or "Swastik" something, but there > is > > little I can do with the information until it becomes possible to obtain a > really good > > large scale map of the subcontinent. I do not mean maps available on the > Internet; > > even the best maps online are woefully inferior to hard-copy printed maps. > And what > > would be necessary is a high quality professionally produced map of India in > order > > to locate exactly where most of the 500 commercial companies are located. > > > > There are also some number of new subdivisions, hotels, parks, etc, named > Swastika > > or Swastik. There may be a number of small villages or streams or mountains > > but the maps at my disposal simply are at inadequate scale to find them. > > > > There are also Swastika businesses and so forth in Indonesia, especially on > the island > > of Bali, and also in Nepal, Singapore, Viet Nam, and other south Asian > nations. > > There are many locations where swastikas can be found in Japan, China, > Taiwan, > > and Korea also. > > > > A swastika atlas of the world could show exact locations of churches in > Europe that > > make use of swastikas in ecclesiastical arts, as at Oxford and Amiens. There > are a good number > > of churches in Ethiopia which make use of swastika decorations. > > > > Some countries in Latin America feature buildings that include swastika > decorations, > > which is the case for Chile, Argentina and Brazil. As well, there are several > places > > in Australia and New Zealand where swastikas are found. > > > > The market for a swastika atlas should be significant. There not only are > people who collect > > atlases, but since the symbol is part of Hindu religion, and Buddhism, > Taoism, Jainism, > > and still other faiths, it can be surmised that many religious people would > want > > swastika maps for their personal purposes. But there should also be a market > > for Americana, for education, and for tourism. > > > > None of this has any connection to Nazis or Fascism. In fact, speaking > personally, > > I am anti-Nazi and detest what the Third Reich did with swastika symbolism > > in the 1930s and 1940s. This is all about restoring swastikas to their > rightful place > > in art history, in religion, and in the arts generally. And in places like > India, with > > its population in excess of a billion people, the symbol has never had the > associations > > that became commonplace in the West. The proposed Atlas is intended to help > > restore the swastika to a place of respect in the West as well as reaffirming > > the respect it never lost in south Asia and Asia more generally. > > > > All of this takes time and money. I am open to working with other > professionals > > in seeing this project to completion and would gratefully consider any offers > > intended to result in the publication of a Swastika Atlas of the World. > > > > > > Billy Rojas > > November 7, 2018 > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > -- > Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community > <[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism > Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. 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