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FootballFan on 26 July 2009

well i thought it was the Hindu symbol

 



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O-D-C on 26 July 2009

ya I noticed that about the dungeon too, kinda funny



KungKras on 26 July 2009
FootballFan said:

well i thought it was the Hindu symbol

 

There is a hindu swastika too, that's supposed to represent luck and the sun or something like that. The Hindu swastika is twisted in the opposite way from the european one.



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ChichiriMuyo on 26 July 2009

It's called a Meiji



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damkira on 26 July 2009
16-bit gamer said:

I've been playing through Zelda on my NES for the first time and i got the map in Dungeon 3 and i was like...WOW!

its a swastika..i'm jewish and i'm not offended or anything i'm just surprised..actually i think its hilarious...is it in the VC version?

i know its a symbol in the Asian world for good luck but i'm really surprised they didn't change the dungeon around in the US version..

anyway..thoughts?

Exactly... The Swastika is a symbol for good luck UNLESS its slanted.. that's the Nazi swastika. The one in Zelda is not slanted, therefore it is an Asian symbol of good luck. Do you really want Nintendo to change a classic game that's 22 years old just because some people don't understand what a Nazi swastika looks like?

 



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sguy78 on 26 July 2009
Chrizum said:
Onyxmeth said:
sguy78 said:
Onyxmeth said:

Well to be fair, The Legend of Zelda was made before the swastika was a bad thing. Now it's a little taboo. Like I wouldn't suck on a swastika-shaped mint, but back in the 1980's it was all good in the nieghborhood.

I didn't know Zelda was that old...

Zelda's very old. It's almost as old as me, and I'm pretty damn old. Look up the history of the swastika and you'll see how early Zelda places into it's past.

I was so close to correcting you, but now I see what you did there. You should have worded it a bit different, but nicely played regardless!

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16-bit gamer on 26 July 2009

@damkira
don't put words in my mouth
i didn't say they should change it, they shouldn't change it..i'm just surprised they didn't



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Khuutra on 26 July 2009

It's a swastika, but you have to understand that people in the East don't equate it with Nazis, they equate it with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Pretty much any religion that acknowledges dharma will incorporate it in some way.

Call it an unfortunate (if insensitive) coincidence.