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The term Black Sun (German ''Schwarze Sonne''), also referred to as the ''Sonnenrad'' (German for "Sun Wheel"), is a symbol of esoteric and occult significance. Its design is based on a sun wheel mosaic incorporated into a floor of Wewelsburg Castle during the Nazi era. Today, it may also be used in occult currents of Germanic neopaganism, and in Irminenschaft or Armanenschaft—inspired esotericism—but not necessarily in a racial or neo-Nazi context. Despite its contemporary use, the Black Sun had not been identified with the ornament in Wewelsburg before 1991, although it had been discussed as an esoteric concept in neo-Nazi circles since the 1950s.〔Strube, 2012〕 ==Historical background== 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.〔'(Derhain website article (In German) )'' on the Schwarze Sonne ((In English )); (Jadu article ); (Haag Museum ) Some Alemannic or Bavarian specimens incorporate a swastika symbol at the center.〔'(Jadu article ); (Haag Museum )'〕 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."〔''Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity'' by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke.〕 He further refers to scholarly discussion of the brooches in Nazi Germany,〔References in Rüdiger Sünner, ''Schwarze Sonne: Entfesselung und Mißbrauch der Mythen in Nationalsozialismus und rechter Esoterik (Freiburg: Herder, 1999), pp. 148, 245 (note 426)'':'Die durchbrochenen Zierscheiben der Merowingerzeit' (Mainz: Röm-German. Zentralmuseum, 1970) by Dorothee Renner. Examples of symbols very similar to the Wewelsburg sun wheel occur in ''Mannus 28 (1936), 270; Walther Veeck, ''Die Alemannen in Württemberg'' (Berlin and Leipzig:DeGruyter, 1931); Hans Reinerth (ed.), ''Die Vorgeschichte der Deutschen Stämme'', 3 vols. (Berlin: Bibliographisches Institut, 1940), vol. 2, plate 219.''〕 allowing for the possibility that the designers of the Wewelsburg mosaic were indeed inspired by these historical precedents. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Sun (occult symbol)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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