The top is adorned with a “sonnenrad,” or “black sun,” an old Nordic symbol. The sonnenrad is composed of 12 ... regardless of race or ethnic background. Folkish Heathens, on the other hand, state ...

It depicts a ship approaching a shore, a rising sun, a palm tree ... a prominent historian who thinks the national symbol should be replaced; some came for land or economic power, he says.

Yao ethnic people air clothes on the day of the Sun Clothes Festival. [Photo by Pan Zhixiang/gxnews.com.cn] Yao ethnic women wash their long hair in the river on the day of the Sun Clothes Festival.

Among the lot, however, was one symbol that completed 66 years last month in being the identity of a recognised party — the ‘rising sun’ of the DMK. Referred to as Udhayasuriyan in Tamil ...