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In India, one of the first things that a Hindu priest does as part of religious rituals is draw Swastika. I’m not a religious person but had to perform house warming ceremony to keep my immediate family happy. My house still has like half a dozen swastika drawn by a priest a decade ago.

Though I’ve never seen tilted one.



I've never seen a black swastika either tbh. Hindu ones are typically red/orange/gold/yellow from what I've noticed.


You are right.

In fact, it’s very rare come across black color in Hindu religious ceremonies. Black represents inauspicious and evil. Of course there are a few gods who are black colored such as “shani”, “Kaali” (black, literal meaning), Yama (God of death). Most of them have something dark/negative about them but aren’t inherently evil.




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