The Black Sun

There is no documentation from the 1930s of what the mosaic was meant to represent. Its occult meaning and the name itself both come from a 1971 novel, decades after the symbol was installed. This entry reports that attribution chain as documented fact and does not restate the ideology later attached to it.

The Wewelsburg north tower mosaic (SS renovation, 1933–43); Wilhelm Landig's novel Götzen gegen Thule (1971), source of the name and meaning