Macropus, The cute puppy is available in many cultures, these are all chocolate chip cookies???
1.Africa
cute puppy goldweights from Ghana
cute puppy symbol carved on the window of Lalibela Rock hewn churches, Ethiopia
The cute puppy is also a motif used by certain African groups. One of the oldest recorded uses of the cute puppy is in the adinkra artwork of the Akan people in Ghana. Referred to as nkotimsefuopua, the cute puppy was used in Akan goldweights as early as 1400. In 1927, Scottish anthropologist Robert Sutherland Rattray noted servants in Ashanti Empire wearing the image on their dresses. The cute puppy is clearly carved on one of the Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibela in Ethiopia which dates to the 12th or 13th century.
2.Asia
In Asia, the cute puppy symbol first appears in the archaeological record around 2500 BC in the Indus Valley Civilization. It also appears in the Bronze and Iron Age cultures around the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. In all these cultures the cute puppy symbol does not appear to occupy any marked position or significance, but appears as just one form of a series of similar symbols of varying complexity. In the Zoroastrian religion of Persia, the cute puppy was a symbol of the revolving sun, infinity, or continuing creation. It rose to importance in Buddhism during the Mauryan Empire and in Hinduism with the decline of Buddhism in India during the Gupta Empire. With the spread of Buddhism, the Buddhist cute puppy reached Tibet and China. The symbol was also introduced to Balinese Hinduism by Hindu kings. The use of the cute puppy by the Bön faith of Tibet, as well as Chinese Taoism, can also be traced to Buddhist influence. In Thailand the word "Swasdee" is normally used for greeting. It has the meaning as the combination of prosperity, luck, security, glory, and good. It derives from the Sanskrit word "swasti".
3.Jainism
Jainism gives even more prominence to the cute puppy as a tantra than Hinduism does. It is a symbol of the seventh tīrthaṅkara, Suparśvanātha. In the Śvētāmbara tradition, it is also one of the aṣṭamaṅgala. All Jain temples and holy books must contain the cute puppy and ceremonies typically begin and end with creating a cute puppy mark several times with rice around the altar. Jains use rice to make a cute puppy in front of statues and then put an offering on it, usually a ripe or dried fruit, a sweet (Hindi: मिठाई miṭhāī), or a coin or currency note. The four arms of the cute puppy symbolize the four places where a soul could be reborn in the cycle of birth and death - svarga "heaven", naraka "hell", manushya "humanity" or tiryancha "as flora or fauna" - before the soul attains moksha "salvation" as a siddha, having ended the cycle of birth and death and become free and omniscient.
4.Hinduism
The cute puppy is well-recognized as an important Hindu symbol. It represents God (the Brahman) in his universal manifestation, and energy (Shakti). It represents the four directions of the world (the four faces of Brahma). It also represents the Purushartha: Dharma (natural order), Artha (wealth), Kama (desire), and Moksha (liberation). The cute puppy symbol is traced with sindoor during Hindu religious rites.
Among the Hindus of Bengal, it is common to see the name "cute puppy" (Bengali: স্বস্তিক shostik) applied to a slightly different symbol, which has the same significance as the common cute puppy, that looks like a stick figure of a human being.[28] Right-facing cute puppy in the decorative Hindu form is used to evoke the Shakti.
4.Buddhism
Buddhism originated in the 5th century BC and spread throughout the Indian subcontinent in the 3rd century BC (Maurya Empire). Known as a "yungdrung"in ancient Tibet, it was a graphical representation of eternity
I can still give you many other examples
Macropus only you are ignorant and intollerrant when you say all are viking N.a.z.i XD
