A Bird on the Head is a Portal Symbol
A bird on the head is a portal symbol. Problem solved.
The following statements might seem like made-up outrageous heretical bird-droppings, but they keep working to explain symbolism and at some point they take over because they are simpler and more useful:
- - Nearly all birds are portal symbols.
- - Anything between wings is a portal symbol.
- - Heads are portal symbols, and various parts of heads are portal symbols including ears, eyes, mouth and headband.
Nekhbet's vulture headdress, explained with platitude words like: protection, maternal and royal; those have no basis other than being made-up stories passed from generation to generation. Ask for evidence, you'll get none except for quoting past writings.
Lets look at interchangeable details above the bird. Image A and B have a platform with little lines, it represent a barrier to the next dimension and is familiar from djeds and above Hathor heads. Its brim is a portal to the next dimension, so it is redundant meaning, same as the bird.
Image C has straight feathers. Those can mean upward outflow but in this context, they can be a barrier symbol, similar to wings being barrier symbols. Sometimes straight feathers are placed on offering tables, where the tabletop is a horizontal plane symbol and the feathers redundantly mark it as representing a barrier to a higher dimension above the table.
Image D has little snakes, which are upward outflow symbols and have similar meaning to little fires. The outer surface of barriers have little outflows.
Image E has a rope-wrap lashing, which is used to attach a portal symbol onto a barrier. This example has a bird portal below the lashing, and a crescent or bull horns above the lashing, and a red circle portal symbol.
Image collections related to above (for those wanting more examples): https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/little-lines/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/birdhead-hat/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/djed/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/lashing/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/hathor-crown/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/offering-table/ https://halls.md/birds.html https://halls.md/lashing.html