Nativity Scene Symbols: Swaddling and Spiral Flow

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on December 25, 2024 - view original post.

If you found my post yesterday with a nativity scene to be interesting as a symbolism pictogram, here are a few components of it. Swaddling can be braids or spiral pattern, and both apparently mean the same thing. Horizontal orientation of higher-density energy flow. That statement may seem like guessing, to people unfamiliar symbols, but I have many prior posts on these topics. https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/swaddling/

The nativity scene read as a symbolism pictogram, where swaddling marks horizontal higher-density energy flow and braids mark side flows entering a to

Hair braids or spiral curl tubes are used in vertical orientation, but mean something similar, a higher-density energy flow, and usually it's "side flow" outside a torus that intends to enter into a torus at the next horizontal plane. https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/braids/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/hair-spirals/

This post has a variety of horizontal human shapes placed across the core of a pictogram (of a torus). The hair examples of D and E are about center flow going vertically upward to the horizontal plane of a head-torus, which is somewhat different than flow crossing horizontally.

On image G, the brim of that chalice is the horizontal plane. I didn't even notice the hair spirals outside of that torus shape, until just now, so that's cool.

Anyway, this followup post just gives me an opportunity to show worldwide use of certain symbols and layouts.

Image I, is it angelic swimming lessons?