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This article is about the occult term; for other uses see Black Sun (disambiguation).

Image:Schwarze-sonne--black-sun--sonnenrad.png The term Black Sun (German Schwarze Sonne) is a symbol of esoteric or occult significance.

Its shape is based on 7th century decorative fibulae worn by Frankish and Alemannic women interpreted as "solar wheels".

Contents 1 Nazi significance 2 Esotericism and popular culture 3 External links 4 See also 5 Further reading

[edit] Nazi significance

The symbol figures prominently as a symbol in Nazi mysticism. The shape of the symbol as used in Neo-Nazism is based on the design of a floor mosaic at Wewelsburg castle, in the room used by the SS for occult meetings. Due to the sunwheel motif and that the symbol can be deconstructed into three swastikas; a 'rising', a 'zenith' & a 'setting' one, the design is popular among German Neo-Nazis as a replacement for the outlawed singular swastika symbol. It is also used by various apolitical organizations for aesthetic and cultural purposes.

It is not known whether or not this symbol was placed in the floor at Wewelsburg before or after the National Socialist Regime and the taking over of the castle by Himmler.

[edit] Esotericism and popular culture

The symbol has been used by a variety of esotericists; for example, as the name of the well-known Black Sun Press of Mary Phelps Jacob, as the company name (Black Sun Rising) [1] which is an Odinist book & media store owned by Tim Biscope in Edmonton, Canada, who is a member of the Odinic Rite, as well as in the in lyrics of the experimental music groups Coil, Death In June, Von Thronstahl and as the title of a song by Dead Can Dance. Black Sun Oasis is a chartered local body of Ordo Templi Orientis, (located in Akron, Ohio).

This symbol is often used by the Odinic Rite in its literature.

The Black Sun was recently used on the cover of the Lord Wind album Atlantean Monument[2]

Occasionally, and unscientifically, black dwarfs are referred to as black suns. This is not entirely unrelated to the esoteric meaning, since ariosophy alleges a burnt out sun that was the source of power of the Aryans in some mystical past (see also Karl Maria Willigut). Others regard the Black Sun as a black hole; before the term black hole was invented in 1967, black holes (then still theoretical) were sometimes called black stars or dark stars (In episode number 21 of the original Star Trek, Tomorrow Is Yesterday (TOS episode), made before the term black hole was invented, what we today call a black hole was termed a "black star".). Still others, such as Miguel Serrano, think of the Black Sun as a wormhole. Uses of the term in science fiction and fantasy literature are influenced by a combination of the esoteric and the astronomical meaning, see Black Sun (disambiguation) for examples of the term as used in popular culture.

[edit] External links

• A Germanic neopagan group's investigation into the origins of the 'Black Sun' symbol
• ADL entry on this pagan symbol
• Alt Religions entry for the Black Sun
• Black Sun Oasis, O.T.O.
• The Astrological Black Sun

[edit] See also

• Black Sun (book by Goodrick-Clarke)
• Fascist symbolism
• Nazi Mysticism
• Thule-Seminar
• Karl Maria Willigut
• Suns in alchemy

[edit] Further reading

• Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and The Politics of Identity New York: 2002--N.Y. University Pressde:Schwarze Sonne

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