Black Sun (symbol)

Black Sun

The Black Sun (German: Schwarze Sonne) is a Germanic occult symbol and recent name for an ancient symbol consisting of twelve radial sig runes (German: Siegesrunen or Sigrunen).

History

Black Sun and Swastika (Klaus Kaping)

The term Black Sun (German: Schwarze Sonne), also referred to as the Sonnenrad (German for "Sun Wheel"), is a symbol of esoteric or occult significance, notable for its usage in National Socialist mysticism. Today, it may also be used in occult currents of Germanic tradition. The design has loose visual parallels in Migration Age Alemannic brooches (Zierscheiben), possibly a variation of the Roman swastika fibula, thought to have been worn on Frankish and Alemannic women's belts. Some Alemannic or Bavarian specimens incorporate a swastika symbol at the center. The number of rays in the brooches varies between five and twelve. Goodrick-Clarke (2002) does connect the Wewelsburg design with the Early Medieval Germanic brooches, and does assume that the original artifacts had a solar significance, stating that

"this twelve-spoke sun wheel derives from decorative disks of the Merovingians of the early medieval period and are supposed to represent the visible sun or its passage through the months of the year."

He further refers to scholarly discussion of the brooches in National Socialist Germany, allowing for the possibility that the designers of the Wewelsburg mosaic were indeed inspired by these historical precedents.

SS

The symbol occurred as a design element in the Wewelsburg Castle. The castle was used by the SS, but whether the symbol had a name or held any particular significance among the SS remains unknown. In 1991, writer Russell McCloud in a novel linked the castle symbol with the concept of the "black sun", an occult energy source. The sun wheel is significant for the Germanic light- and sun-mysticism which was propagated by the SS. In their studies on sense characters, the sun apart was interpreted as "the strongest and most visible expression of god", the number twelve as significant for "the things of the target and the completion".

Black Sun and Swastika

Over time, especially in the last two centuries, a whole range of different descriptions, explanations, transfigurations and embellishments have been circulated about these two ancient symbols of Nordic spirituality. And because of these different perspectives, a wide variety of associations, worldviews, sects and mythical religious communities have each chosen one of these symbols as their symbol. But if you look at the basis, the starting point of all these different perspectives and explanations for the two symbols, a similar picture emerges for both, indeed almost identical explanatory bases, which are, however, located on different levels of appearance, one on the material level and the other on the spiritual level. Both symbols symbolically stand, and the various interpreters and explanations agree on this, for a particular form of light, and thus the sun as the representative of light. The Black Sun, as an invisible – and therefore black – sun, represents the eternal light of creation, i.e. the spiritual world, which is superior to matter, while the swastika, as a symbol of the material sun, the central star of our planetary system, reflects our material basis of existence. However, since up to now in the history of the development of our world, the spiritual basis of being and the material level of existence developing from this basis have been seen separately, these two holy symbols, namely the Black Sun and the swastika, could only ever be recognized, interpreted and used separately. As a result, the forces represented by the sign of the Black Sun and the swastika could only ever take effect separately and not in a bundled manner, which would not only result in a doubling but certainly a potentiation of the forces. Only in National Socialist Germany was a connection between these two symbols of salvation suspected and an attempt made (-Ahnenerbe, Wewelsburg etc.) to integrate the interaction of both forces, which originate from the same source, into life on this earth and to let both forces work for the salvation of people. But even in this attempt, both forces were presented and used separately, so that these forces made available by creation were still not able to fully develop their enormous effectiveness. Even at that time, thinking was still too exclusively tied to matter. However, since holistic thinking is becoming the basis of life for more and more people in the coming Age of Aquarius, a unification of these two forces, which have been considered separate since time immemorial, can now finally be achieved. The swastika, symbol for the material sun, the central star of our solar system as an expression of our material basis of life, embedded in the sign of the Black Sun as a symbol of the invisible spiritual world, the cause and basis of matter will now become reality –. Or to put it another way: the gross material form of life sheltered in the love and omnipresence of the deity, the origin of all being. – Klaus Kaping, Collegium Humanum, in: Schwarze Sonne und Hakenkreuz

Gallery

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  Sketch of an Alamannian fibula from the Merovingian period which shows a sun wheel

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  Black Sun and Irminsul

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  SS-Obergruppenführer-Saal (SS Generals' Hall) of the Wewelsburg decorated with the Black Sun

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  Black Sun, magazine of the Ukrainian Regiment Asow/Asov

See also

• Sun cross
• Landig Group
• Germanic mythology
• Esoteric Hitlerism
• National Socialism and occultism