Bronze pendant. The ornamental swastika with arms in spirals or just loosely curved is documented in several variants already in the Stone Age, for example in the Eastern European Tripolitan culture (in Ukraine between 5500-2750 BC), later in the Greek Mycenaean Bronze Age (1600-1000 BC), in the Nordic Bronze Age (1700-500 BC), in the Czech Republic in the Veterevian culture (around 1700-1600 BC). In southern Bohemia, a Hallstatt clasp (8th-5th century BC) of a similar type made of four spirals was found in a prehistoric tomb in Protivín. The motif can be traced practically to this day on folk embroidery, on houses or on church decorations. The symbol of the swastika in this case means both the Sun, where the curve of the arms expresses the movement of the annual cycle with the four solar festivals of the year, solstices and equinoxes, and the symbol of the heavens and, in fact, the starry sky. In this case, the four spirals express the "rotation" of the starry sky around the star Polaris (Severka). The size without the eyelet is 2,3 cm.
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