Perfectly respectable as far as scholarship goes, bearing in mind the materialistic handicaps wherever scholarship in the modern manner is concerned.
To pose other possibilities which need not be arbitrarily considered as logically disqualified:
-It is perfectly possible (again, presuming that we're not materialists - a difficult disability to fully overcome in all of us who've grown up in this age) that some cultures draw swastikas because it's a simple shape to independently draw;
-AND that some cultures draw swastikas in alignment with deeper power and meaning spirituality perceived;
-AND EVEN that yet more cultures copied for prestige the swastikas of the initiated in ignorant cargo-cult manner;
-OR EVEN that still other cultures discovered a spiritually grounded meaning conveyed in the swastika without necessarily coming into direct *physical* contact with similarly knowledgeable cultures - since of course that pertaining to a spiritual Absolute is able to approach the more limited dimensions of our physical realm with much more freedom than anything 'from within/upon the timeline'.
Naturally, by the time of the Classical cultures upon whose amazing treasury of records we rely for (alas, mere) scholarship there are different (mere) *theories* of meaning for that which is no longer fully understood. On this, the next paragraph poses a challenge which I believe not many really rise up to in this peculiar time of ours now:
It's easy to mistake these Classical periods as 'the Golden Age' - especially compared to when/where we find ourselves just now! Certainly, we absolutely can find intact transmissions of real knowledge and even understanding from what records we have of those times. But they were still fallen (not in the sense of "sin" or "damnation" but in the sense of lessened knowledge/understanding) times, compared to what came before.
Perhaps we might come to agree with those ancients of the mysteries, that "theory" should (judiciously!) be attempted only in the wake of gnôsis, rather than 'heading it off at the pass'.
To pose other possibilities which need not be arbitrarily considered as logically disqualified:
-It is perfectly possible (again, presuming that we're not materialists - a difficult disability to fully overcome in all of us who've grown up in this age) that some cultures draw swastikas because it's a simple shape to independently draw;
-AND that some cultures draw swastikas in alignment with deeper power and meaning spirituality perceived;
-AND EVEN that yet more cultures copied for prestige the swastikas of the initiated in ignorant cargo-cult manner;
-OR EVEN that still other cultures discovered a spiritually grounded meaning conveyed in the swastika without necessarily coming into direct *physical* contact with similarly knowledgeable cultures - since of course that pertaining to a spiritual Absolute is able to approach the more limited dimensions of our physical realm with much more freedom than anything 'from within/upon the timeline'.
Naturally, by the time of the Classical cultures upon whose amazing treasury of records we rely for (alas, mere) scholarship there are different (mere) *theories* of meaning for that which is no longer fully understood. On this, the next paragraph poses a challenge which I believe not many really rise up to in this peculiar time of ours now:
It's easy to mistake these Classical periods as 'the Golden Age' - especially compared to when/where we find ourselves just now! Certainly, we absolutely can find intact transmissions of real knowledge and even understanding from what records we have of those times. But they were still fallen (not in the sense of "sin" or "damnation" but in the sense of lessened knowledge/understanding) times, compared to what came before.
Perhaps we might come to agree with those ancients of the mysteries, that "theory" should (judiciously!) be attempted only in the wake of gnôsis, rather than 'heading it off at the pass'.