fylfot
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Known as fylfot cross, the swastikas are one of four variations of the Christian cross found in the church’s entryway.
From Washington Times • Mar. 13, 2016
Hitler appropriated the symbol and inverted it so that the bent “s” structures face a reverse direction from the Christian fylfot cross.
From Washington Times • Mar. 13, 2016
And now a luminous tuft shot into his bedroom and threw a figure on the wall, a strange figure, something like a fylfot, and it came from the sitting-room.
From In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales by Strindberg, August
The anstated cross of the Egyptians is such a symbol, the Buddhist wheel, and the fylfot or swastika inscribed within a circle, also those numerous Christian symbols combining the circle and the cross.
From The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture by Bragdon, Claude Fayette
Take the ancient Gaulish coins, for instance, and the fylfot and ordinary Greek cross abound; take the ancient British coins of the age long prior to Christianity, and the same thing occurs.
