Supplement to:

"Which Way Am I Spinning?" --

Debunking the Nazi "Backwards Swastika" Myth

 

 

By http://www.jrbooksonline.com                       JR's Rare Books and Commentary           

 

 

           

 

1.  From The Migration of Symbols [and their Relations to Beliefs and Customs] by Donald A. MacKenzie, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1926, p. 3:

 

 

 

 

 

2.  From The Migration of Symbols by the Count Goblet d'Alviella, University Books, NY, 1956; facsimile reprint of the edition published at Westminster, 1894, p. 60 (facing):

 

 

 

 

 

Also from (2.), after p. xxiii.  Note that introduction contributor George Birdwood expressly describes a non-Nazi swastika as "sinister" = left-hand.  As a  consequence, the opposite (Nazi) type must be dextroverse = right-hand.  He also calls the left-hand suwastika at bottom "inauspicious", i.e., unfavorable:

 

 

 

 

 

Also from (2.), p. 32.  On p. 40, d'Alviella says, "In India it [the gammadion] bears the name of swastika, when its arms are bent towards the right (Fig. 14a)":