Up and Down Human Symbolism

The "Up and Down" pattern, but the down side is often "Bidirectional" and sometimes that bidirectional side has "two things", like two scales of a balance, two sides of an open book.

I'm preparing a future post with more examples of these.

This post is about "two human-symbols" on the bidirectional side, and one human-symbol on the "up" side.

Each "up" symbol is either using an upward hand pose, or holding an up sword (image C).

The other side with two human-symbols, they all have a down hand holding a downward leaf.

Their other hands do various things, some show "up", some go to the midline core, and some do the "cheek palm" pose, which is a downward pose.

https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/cheek-palm/ Image G and H are somewhat different.

Instead of vertical side flow, the horizontal body means a horizontal plane flow, which splits into a "Y".

"Y"s in symbolism usually have both polarities, an up and a down.

(an inflow and an outflow).

Eva has the up hand pose, and Adam has the cheek palm pose.

Image F has wool-spinning symbolism, which often has a shovel or hoe making a bottom penetration portal, and the wool is like an up spearhead symbol.

That's totally off topic, but it's symbolism.

https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/wool-spinning/ The Eva from Adams rib being a horizontal "Y", I thought that was interesting.

"V" branching also can be about up and down polarities, but my collection is weak.

It needs more examples.

https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/y-and-v/ Anyway, don't get mad about the two unclothed people on one side of a pictogram.

The Genesis story is loved, and these images seem to be a vehicle for this kind of art to have a coded meaning too.