Those looping vines—yeah, I’ve seen them on a lot of walls, especially near hearths or burial sites. The spirals aren’t just decoration; they mimic root growth, the way a plant coils when it’s searching for nutrients. In my notebooks I’ve traced the same curve in three separate caves, each with a different set of glyphs that seem to point toward a specific plant. When the loop ends in a tiny dot, it looks like a seed, and the whole thing looks like a diagram of a plant’s life cycle. Modern writers call it “artistic flourish,” but if you follow the line you can see it’s almost like an early recipe: plant, process, use. So, yeah, I think the patterns are a straight‑forward hint at early plant uses, especially medicinal or food‑stuff.

Yeah, I’d love to show you what’s in the notebooks. The drawings are still in those battered leather covers I keep in the back of my tent, nothing digitized—just ink, charcoal, and a lot of coffee stains. I can walk you through the spirals that look like seed, root, and sprout and point out the glyphs that match the herbs I’ve seen in the nearby ravine. Just keep in mind I’m not a licensed healer, so the “remedies” are more guesses than prescriptions, but they might spark some ideas for modern experiments. Let’s get a coffee, lay the sketches out, and see what patterns emerge.