But sometimes older symbols do get taken over and polluted and are never again usable in their original context. That is what happened to the Swastika — originally the oriental mystic sunwheel — you will find it embossed on the covers of Macmillan's and Methuen's original Kipling editions. But it can never be used in any sort of innocent or innocuous context again, having been hijacked as dreaded symbol of the Nazi party.