This is a sort of good luck charm - it's hard to find a store, home or shop without one of these.

However this one is a little different, it uses a swastika which has a completely different symbology in the East than in the modern West.

And here it is in situ. Weird and a little jarring for a foreigner, pretty normal on the street in Cambodia.

Will have to ask some of my religious researcher pals more about this stuff.

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