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THE PAGAN SYMBOLS OF FASCISM
The Nazi symbol of the swastika is was a god of war who rode an eight-
often thought to be a Christian symbol legged horse and carried a spear).
because of its similarity to the cross. Von Liebenfels wanted to re-
However, it is actually a pagan instate this aberrant belief,
symbol originating from pre- and announced that he had
Christian pagan German beliefs. selected the swastika as the
The first person to use the symbol of Wotan. This pagan
swastika as a symbol in 20th symbol was later taken over by
century Germany was Jorg Lanz the Nazis, who also became
von Liebenfels, one of the foremost devoted to the paganism of
ideologues in the development of barbarian Europe, and who
Nazi ideology, who may be thought they were carrying out
regarded as the true founder of the their massacres, conquests and
racist theories concerning the killings in the name of Wotan.
German race. In his youth he was a Adherence to pagan beliefs may
Christian priest, but because also be discerned in
of his deviant sexual symbols employed by
tendencies, he was Mussolini. As mentioned
expelled from the before, "fascism," which
Church, abandoning was an invention of
Christianity and turning to pagan Mussolini's, comes from the Latin word
beliefs. He founded the pagan fasces, that is, a bundle of rods tied
organization Ordo Novi Templi (Order around an axe, used in ancient Rome.
of the New Temple), and announced Senior officials known as "lictors"
that they worshipped Wotan, one of the would carry this item before them,
pagan gods of old German myth. believed to be a symbol of power and
(Wotan, or Odin in northern languages, sovereignty.
Liebenfels, who abandoned Christianity and turned to paganism, was the first person to use
the swastika in 20th century Nazi Germany. The seal on the left is from Liebenfels' book
cover. The symbol of the war god Wotan (Odin) was later taken over by the Nazis.
