BLACK SUN: BACKGROUND, HISTORY AND MEANING - HISTORY - 2025

The black sun or solar wheel is an ancient symbol of the Germanic peoples that made reference to the day when the world would end and the confrontation of the gods against the jotuns. This esoteric symbol was also associated with Nazi occult philosophy, its name in German is schwarze sonne or sonnenrad (sun wheel).

It has two circles that are concentric; the one inside is smaller and shaped like the sun. From this, twelve rays come out, representing the annual movement of the Sun. The rays reach the outer circle at angles that bend to create two fundamental symbols of Nazism: the twelve Sigel runes (the sun, victory) and the swastika.

This emblem served as a symbol of the dreaded SS (Adolf Hitler Protection Squads) and was used as a religious emblem of Nazism. Currently this symbol is used by pagan groups with a neo-Nazi ultra-right tendency.

Background and history

The black sun is derived from the radiated discs used by Norse or Viking peoples in the Bronze Age. They are considered as the ancestors of Indo-European culture.

This mystical symbol could represent the twelve knights of King Arthur's round table or the twelve disciples around the master. From its origins it was a sign of the occult. It symbolizes what radiates from the inside out, which springs from the center of the Earth.

Irradiation from matter

It has three overlapping swastika crosses: ascending, balanced, and western. It has an inner sun that is hidden in matter (spirit) in a position opposite to the outer sun (God).

For the alchemists, the black sun (niger) was the inner fire that fueled the combustion until the consummation of the nigredo (first phase of alchemy). In the black sun the vital light radiates from matter.

This hidden symbol - because it was not used in public but was only displayed in ceremonial places - has a lot of history and meaning. It is currently prohibited and its use is punishable in Germany.

Sigel Runes

On the other hand, the Sigel runes that appear on the black sun symbolize the Sun, victory or "growing vitality." They are signs of the runic alphabets used to write in the Germanic languages, basically in the British Isles and Scandinavia, and to a lesser extent in Europe, in ancient times and the Middle Ages.

The origin of the word rune is associated with ru, an ancient European term meaning "secret" and the Germanic word rune, which means "whisper."

Meaning

Although the SS used the black sun, there is no precision about the name they gave it or if it had a particular meaning for them.

The truth is that it was these Hitler paramilitary groups who rescued this ancient symbol of light and the sun, and gave it validity.

The sun symbolized "the strongest and most visible expression of God," while the number twelve had great significance for "the things of destiny and perfection," according to studies of symbols that were made.

Creation of a racial cult

The Nazis wanted to replace traditional Christianity with a racial cult, which was the foundation of their ideology (Aryan supremacy). Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS, had among his plans to create a doctrine based on morality originated in the heritage of the ancient Germanic peoples.

Pagan rites and the occult were part of the daily ceremonies of the SS. The Wewelsburg, located in the Westphalia region, was known as the magic castle of the Nazis and was a religious center of the new "conform race."

Hidden symbol

As has been said, the black sun was not a symbol in common or public use; its exhibition was restricted to National Socialist mystical places of worship. These places were only accessed by initiates in the SS.

The symbol was discovered in an ornate green marble mosaic on the floor of the former meetinghouse of the SS leaders (Obergruppenführersaal), located in Wewelsburg Castle.

Initially, the mosaic that could be seen from outside the room had a gold disc in the center. After being taken, Wewelsburg Castle was conditioned and renovated to serve as the headquarters of the SS and the central temple of the Nazi religion.

The black sun as a symbol of Nazi racial religion

Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS

The main symbol of racial religion was precisely the black sun. Consequently, the castle was conceived as the "center of the world" for National Socialist mysticism.

The black sun was initially a symbol of beliefs that were part of a current of Nazi occult character that was re-founded by the leadership of the SS.

Reconstructionist movements were encouraged by Himmler, the great occultist, because they coincided with the ideological justification of National Socialism. Nazism sought ancestral elements that would give it originality and justify it from the Indo-European anthropological-ancestral point of view.

Emphasis on the purity of Aryan blood

A mystical current emerges from the ideological movements that will become a quasi initiatory religion. In this, different concepts of pagan beliefs and ancestral religions that had as their center the Führer and the thesis of the "purity of Aryan blood" were mixed.

Himler created the Ahnenerbe, an organization that originally had the mission of rescuing and promoting German traditions, but that ended up exploring in the occult sciences how to destroy the Catholic religion, in addition to perpetrating theft of treasures and religious relics.

Power symbol

Within the Nazi racial religion the black sun represents a hidden sun. It is a symbol of mystical power and wisdom that provides strength and vigor to the superior Aryan race.

The symbolism behind this emblem has a lot of depth for the Nazis. Besides being representative of the solar wheel, it contained the most important symbols of National Socialism: the swastika, which was associated with “good fortune”; and the Sigel runes, which signify "increasing vitality" and victory.

Both symbols conveyed optimism and served as an anthropological underpinning for Nazi ideology. In addition, the black sun symbolized for the SS a kind of brotherhood, since it brings together the twelve knights of the order (the Council of Initiates) gathered around the master.

All symbols of power, and even the ideological underpinning of the Nazi ideology, were concentrated in a single emblem: the black sun. That is precisely its greatest importance.

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