I think this discussion is sadly lacking a fair bit of Szukalski. If you don't know him, he's a total weirdo. But, like so many totalitarian weirdoes, he was

I think this discussion is sadly lacking a fair bit of Szukalski. If you don't know him, he's a total weirdo. But, like so many totalitarian weirdoes, he was also a bit of a genius. Of the mad variety. Mad, but nevertheless interesting. So, one of his mad genius ideas is that the world has endured a number of cyclic catastrophic events, every 65k years or so, which completely obliterates civilisation and culture and replaces it with naught but refugees and a relatively clean slate. On account of The Deluge. If you imagine that the Earth, 65k years (or so) ago might've had an Advanced Civilisation, Szukalski is gonna be right alongside, albeit way ahead of you. One of the things he proposes is that the survivors of The Deluge have inter-mixed, around the globe, and you can see it in ancient art - common themes, originally expressed from a root culture (the 'mother tongue' of the prior civilisation), which eventually degrades over time as entropy - and the shifting oceans of The Deluge - separate us all. Anyway, Szukalski had some things to say about sea-faring survivors whose language echoes through the ages. If you want a bit of a "Weird Art" kick, because the Tamil Bell is indeed weird art, then take a look at Szukalski. The Protong Lives!