s towards each other made the form of the Greek cross. Budge also disputes that the fylfot and the swastika are the same thing: "Those who regard the grammadion and the swastika as one and the same sign have confounded the simple cross, which was used in the West by pagans long before the coming of Christ, with the swastika, which is a purely Aryan symbol and, of course, of pagan origin" (Budge 332).
Budge also says that the home of the swastika is undoubtedly India, and he offers different views of how it originated. One view is that the swastika represented Ganesa and the male principl
...