Straight Versus Curvy Lines Symbolism Flow Direction
Lines straight and curvy.
Water is generally a downward flow symbol, and making it curvy on image A and B tells me that esoteric/surrealist artists already know that curvy lines generally indicate a downward flow direction.
( A snake going up a tree is an obvious exception).
The human-ish figures on image D and E have the trapezoidal body shape having bidirectional markings for what they represent, which is the center flow path of a torus.
Image C uses dark and light shading.
The "bow" is a bidirectional symbol (from other evidence not shown) in a side flow position, and is usually on the opposite side of an upward spear or sword.
But I've recently noticed the bow having a straight and curvy line, and I think "duh, is it really that simple?" Apparently so, but not always.
But this straight versus curvy concept seems like very useful knowledge for aiding decoding.
On a few recent posts about horizontal lines versus vertical lines, the horizontal lines seem to indicate upward flow, while straight vertical lines seem to be downward.
That's an example where a simple "straight versus curvy" doesn't work.
Egyptian examples of horizontal and vertical straight lines are here: https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/stripes/ I've started a small collection of https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/lines-straight-and-curvy/ which I hope to grow much bigger.
The ladder, should be familiar to everyone as a flow path up to a higher density reality.
https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/ladder/ And I've started a collection of petroglyphs with trapezoidal body shapes, because they are probably valuable for study.