Misc

Not pretty!

It will be interesting to see when some of these people change their mind! Now it is "cool" to have it. I found tattoos so unattractive,but hey we live in a free world. By the way not all of these are Iranian , I am sure there are few that are Arab or from Muslims around the world.

The backward swastika

The real one is crossed ZZ not crossed SS. I saw that symbol in some Far East countries Buddhist temples. Himmler was the freaky superstitious member of the 3rd rich who was always searching for these ancient symbols. Crossed ZZ is NOT an Iranian symbol. Why do some Iranians love to relate themselves to Nazis or Germans?

Is it Permanent ?

Also not very fond of the Swastika ( although it is an Indo European symbol which I was told initially represented the cycle of life for the Indians and or Parsis living in India , except that it was distorted by the Nazi's ). Not a Big Fan of body paintings personally ... 

Nima,

Here are two excerpts from articles related to Swastika I found in Wikipedia. Hitler used this symbol and many people around the world identify it with Nazi Germany, but as you will read bellow this symbol has been there for thousands of years.

Towards the end of the clip there's also a short sentence about the origin of Swastika.

1.
"The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika स्वस्तिक ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. The swastika can also be drawn as a traditional swastika, but with a second 90° bend in each arm.
Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period. An ancient symbol, it occurs mainly in the cultures that are in modern day India and the surrounding area, sometimes as a geometrical motif (as in the Roman Republic and Empire) and sometimes as a religious symbol. It was long widely used in major world religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

Though once commonly used all over much of the world without stigma, because of its iconic usage in Nazi Germany, the symbol has become controversial in the Western world." Wikipedia

2.
"Vedic Mitra is a prominent deity of the Rigveda distinguished by a relationship to Varuna, the protector of rta. Together with Varuna, he counted among the Adityas, a group of solar deities, also in later Vedic texts. Vedic Mitra is the patron divinity of honesty, friendship, contracts and meetings.
The first extant record of Indo-Aryan[8] Mitra, in the form mi-it-ra-, is in the inscribed peace treaty of c. 1400 BC between Hittites and the Hurrian kingdom of the Mitanni in the area southeast of Lake Van in Asia Minor. There Mitra appears together with four other Indo-Aryan divinities as witnesses and keepers of the pact.

In antiquity, texts refer to "the mysteries of Mithras", and to its adherents, as "the mysteries of the Persians."[9] This latter epithet is significant, not only for whether the Mithraists considered the object of their devotion a Persian divinity (i.e. Mithra), but for whether the devotees considered their religion to have been founded by Zoroaster.[9]

It is not possible to state with certainty when "the mysteries of Mithras" developed. Clauss asserts[10] "the mysteries" were not practiced until the 1st century CE. Mithraism reached the apogee of its popularity around the 3rd through 4th centuries, when it was particularly popular among the soldiers of the Roman Empire. Mithraism disappeared from overt practice after the Theodosian decree of 391 banned all pagan rites, and it apparently became extinct thereafter.

Although scholars are in agreement with the classical sources that state that the Romans borrowed the name of Mithras from Avestan Mithra,[11] the origins of the Roman religion itself remain unclear and there is yet no scholarly consensus concerning this issue (for a summary of the various theories, see history, below). Further compounding the problem is the non-academic understanding of what "Persian" means, which, in a classical context is not a specific reference to the Iranian province Pars, but to the Persian (i.e. Achaemenid) Empire and speakers of Iranian languages in general." Wikipedia

uhhhhh

Is it me or was there one with a swastika?

Tattoo

I'm getting a temporary tattoo that says "I HATE TATTOOS" cuz I'm not looking for attension.