as a hobby I review videos of walkthroughs: streets of tourist places, old buildings, archological ruins, etc.
so yesterday I decided to look up a mueseum that is in Tunisa, called the Bardo (yes, what a strange name, someone goes there and they are in 'the Bardo', but not in Bardo, I suppose, an anside to an aside.
but the point of this: the idea of the 'swirl' in art is a very very old one, the Doric Column is usually capped with something that some thing is that. As well swirlly things show up at the sides of frames of giant mosaics of scenese that were crafted into the floors and walls and ceilings of the old buildings.
my point: the mosaics at that muesuem show a curious evolvution of the 'wave' (I call it a wave, cause it's not a swirl).
and they have the swrill either as the stuff inside of a wave, along the fringe, or the swril of a vine that is growing like that (like a fiddle head fern does I suppose) and then . . . in one mosaic you see that it's kind of a combination of both. The swrilly vine is married to the swrilly ocean waves andyou get little cornicopias of abundunace represented with in the little wave crests.
so I suggest that anyone who has some hard idea that the swirl always represents . . . something horrible about the ones who like it an use it: it seems to me to me 'water things', or 'of Posiedon', or fruit of the sea.
and the swril might also be 'abudnace of vines' and the combination, perhaps, abudace of the sea of vines.
looking at the border features of the mosaic floors at the Tunisian Bardo mueseum will yield insight into these designs.
on one of the mosaics there aren't any swirls but instead . . . where each swirll would be in a similar design it a tiny bent cross that connects to the next time bent cross (yes that cross that is taboo).
so if you're board look up videos on Tunsian muesuem walk through
or Roman Massaic floors and watch those videos and learn about ancient iconography.
It's relavant to memes and to messaging.
PS: when you search for the Tunisian Bardo muesuem you will also find . . . about a horible story of terrorists at that mueseum.
but we must live through these things and still gain the knowledge of the past that so scares the terrorists that they would do what they did at a mueseum like that.