Samantha Rinne
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The earliest known swastika is from 10,000 BCE – part of "an intricate meander pattern of joined-up swastikas" found on a late paleolithic figurine of a bird, carved from mammoth ivory, found in Mezine, Ukraine. It has been suggested that this swastika may be a stylized picture of a stork in flight.[51] As the carving was found near phallic objects, this may also support the idea that the pattern was a fertility symbol.
The Samarra bowl, at the Pergamonmuseum, Berlin. The swastika in the centre of the design is a reconstruction. In England, neolithic or Bronze Age stone carvings of the symbol have been found on Ilkley Moor, such as the Swastika Stone. Mirror-image swastikas (clockwise and anti-clockwise) have been found on ceramic pottery in the Devetashka cave, Bulgaria, dated to 6,000 BCE.
Some of the earliest archaeological evidence of the swastika in the Indian subcontinent can be dated to 3,000 BCE. Investigators have also found seals with "mature and geometrically ordered" swastikas that date to before the Indus Valley Civilisation (3300–1300 BCE).
Chain, Gilan; Samarra bowl, by Dbachmann - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 4.0, File:Samarra bowl.jpg - Wikimedia Commons Armenia; China; Hands of Svaroga, Poland, Oseberg Ship (Viking - 800 BCE), Norway; Corinth coin (600 BCE); Mycenian doll (16-1,100 BCE); Attican pottery, 780 BCE;
See more at: Swastika - Wikipedia. Forget about Kipling.
Interestingly, some of these feature the cross in some fashion. All of which probably predate any possible encounters with Christian faith. So either the cross has a meaning that also predares Christianity or... time trabelers, that's it.
The pentagram, in addition to being a symbol of four elements and spirit, apparently shows up in Christianity as the five wounds of Christ, and Eastern mysticism as the five elements.
Also there are what are known as OParts or Out of Place artifacts, such things as hieroglyphics showing what looks like blimps and planes, or picrures of dinosaurs well before ppl widely believed in such stuff. You decide how real that is, though.
