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![Swastika mosaic on the floor of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris.
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equilateral cross with arms bent at right angles, all in the same rotary direction, usually clockwise. The swastika as a symbol of prosperity and good fortune is widely distributed throughout the ancient and modern world. The word is derived from the Sanskrit svastika, meaning “conducive to well-being.” It was a favourite symbol on ancient Mesopotamian coinage. In Scandinavia the left-hand swastika was the sign for the god Thor’s hammer. The swastika also appeared in early Christian and Byzantine art (where it became known as the gammadion cross, or crux gammata, because it could be constructed from four Greek gammas [
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![Swastika mosaic on the floor of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris.
[Gideon (malias)]](https://web.archive.org/web/20100209042709im_/http://www.britannica.com/static/bps-static-content/20100107-1620/images/darwin/shared/spacer_htc.gif "Swastika mosaic on the floor of the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris.
[Gideon (malias)]")
