Curvy Sails Symbolism for Flow Direction

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2025-07-22 - view original post.

Sails on turtles. But first, yellow highlights are on a barrier symbol on image A, B, D and E. Image D has two, one at the bottom and one across the horizontal plane.

Images A to K from symbolism showing yellow highlights on barrier symbols including one across the horizontal plane, vertical straight lines for upward flow and curvy S-shaped lines for downward flow, boat pictograms with straight masts and curvy sails, turtles wearing curvy sails, and an IHS-JHS emblem whose letters mark upward and downward or bidirectional flow.

Image C has vertical upward flow straight lines near letter "C" and it has curvy S-shaped lines for downward flow. The boat pictograms on image A and B also use straight masts and curvy sails. Why do turtles have curvy sails on image G and H. It must be symbolism, huh. I'm inferring that all these sails have a meaning of downward or bidirectional flow. Some have the "little lines" that I mentioned about the Lotus symbol on my previous post, and image K even has the curved top.

Image I has "IHS", actually "JHS". From other evidence not shown, the "I" and "J" mean upward flow, and the "S" means either downward or bidirectional flow. The Arabic calligraphy of image C supports this. I chose to show image "I" because the "energy flow" aspect is unmistakable.

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