[Aztlan] coming from the south

[Marcelo Donadello]

Not the images, but some info from... Wikipedia.
   
  The swastika shape was used by some Native Americans. It has been found in excavations of Mississippian-era sites in the Ohio valley. It was widely used by many southwestern tribes, most notably the Navajo. Among different tribes the swastika carried various meanings. To the Hopi it represented the wandering Hopi clan; to the Navajo it was one symbol for a whirling log (tsil no'oli'), a sacred image representing a legend that was used in healing rituals.[13]
         
The Flag of Kuna Yala.


  A swastika shape is an ancient symbol in the culture of the Kuna people of Kuna Yala, Panama. In Kuna tradition it symbolises the octopus, which created the world; its tentacles, pointing to the four cardinal points, gave rise to the rainbow, the sun, the moon and the stars.[14]
  In February, 1925, the Kuna revolted against Panamanian suppression of their culture, and were granted autonomy in 1930; the flag which they adopted at this time is based on the swastika shape, and remains the official flag of Kuna Yala. A number of variations on the flag have been used over the years; red top and bottom bands instead of orange were previously used, and in 1942 a ring (representing the traditional Kuna nose-ring) was added to the centre of the flag to distance it from the symbol of the Nazi party.[15]
  
Marcelo Donadello
  
Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan at pauahtun.org> escribió:
  Hi All--

sharon mcmullen orlet wrote:
> I DO know that the Hopi's believe they drew the short stick and travelled from a land to the lands they are in now. some of their leaders think they originated from Maya land. I saw the Hopi "swastika" in its unreversed form when i was in Palenque.
> It is interesting to think about more tribes possibly coming from the south (or west) as well.
> 

Can you post, or direct us to, images of both the Hopi swastika and the 
Palenque example you saw?

Thanks!

Metta,
Ivan
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