Swaddling is a real practice of newborn health, especially in midwifery, but it's done with sheets and blankets and not with coils. This isn't swaddling, it's mummification.

Add: It's supposedly an Italian swaddled Christ. However, medieval depiction of a swaddled Christ very often emphasized the impotence of the child instead of the potence, and often merged conceptually with the swaddled sphere called "OT" from those two letters being overlaid as its symbol. More. Add again: The OT sphere comes from the "O-T map" of the world and the three continents of the eastern hemisphere. However, this makes the swaddling equal to the oceans of the world, which of course always represent the wicked. That's a parallel I hadn't considered before. See my separate article about the snake on the tree (snake being the wicked here, tree being the good).

Swaddling is a real practice of newborn health, especially in midwifery, but it's done with sheets and blankets and not with coils. This isn't swaddling, it's mummification.

Add: It's supposedly an Italian swaddled Christ. However, medieval depiction of a swaddled Christ very often emphasized the impotence of the child instead of the potence, and often merged conceptually with the swaddled sphere called "OT" from those two letters being overlaid as its symbol. More.

Swaddling is a real practice of newborn health, especially in midwifery, but it's done with sheets and blankets and not with coils. This isn't swaddling, it's mummification.