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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for August 13, 1999
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tetraskelion [n. tet-ruh-SKEL-ee-un]
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The mark with four bent arms that was used as a national symbol by
Nazi Germany during World War II was the tetraskelion, better known
as the swastika.
Although many people today have negative feelings about the
tetraskelion, it is actually an ancient symbol that carries positive
meanings having to do with power, energy, and migration. While the
Nazi symbol had arms that bent to the right, the mirror image form
with left-bending arms has also been used.
The word is made from the Greek prefix tetra- (four) and -skelion,
from the Greek skelos (leg). The swastika is also known as the
Hackenkreuz in Germany, the crux gammata in Latin countries, the
fylfot in England, and the gammadion in Greece.
There is also a three-armed symbol called the triskelion.
More about the tetraskelion:
http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/15/151.html
http://www.erm.ee/naitus/symbol/svastika_eng.html
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