Fwiw the term 'sauvastika' was invented in 1850 by European scholars to try to describe/explain why sometimes it went the other direction. These are the same ge

Fwiw the term 'sauvastika' was invented in 1850 by European scholars to try to describe/explain why sometimes it went the other direction. These are the same geniuses who helped popularize the myth of the "Aryans" that led to Hitler's idiotic interpretation (he literally thought "Aryans" were Nordic peoples who invaded India, descended from the lost city of Atlantis, despite the actual Indo-Aryan people being basically Iranian...). The word doesn't mean anything and you can just say swastika. Some cultures have specific meanings for specific directions, like how for Buddhists the left-turning one represents the Buddha's footprints, and for Hindus the right-turning one represents the expansion of the universe. 'The one associated with the Nazis' is therefore also associated with many other cultures and uses, but we Westerners being poorly educated and not exposed to other cultures, can only focus on the Western symbolism (ignoring how it was a popular symbol throughout the West from 1880-1920).