Lotus Cones, Lines, and Snake Symbols for Etheric Flow Directions

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

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Snake and Lotus. A little adjustment to what I've said before. When "Lotus" is written in mainstream explanations, it's a mess, so I try to use more specific words. Image E and F is the "blue lotus", a water lily, but it's main feature for symbolism is cone-shaped pointy leaves, and those mean outflow in the direction the cones are pointing. So image G has a flower-with-cones showing upward flow.

Images A to H from Egyptian and Minoan symbolism comparing lotus-style flowers: the blue lotus water lily with cone-shaped pointy leaves meaning outflow, flowers with thin little lines and a curved top meaning downward etheric flow into the stem, cone flowers on the sides as upward flow, both features together meaning bidirectional, rounded serrations on a crozier crook meaning high-density flow toward the core, and snakes with a pointy side and rounded side carrying a ring portal with a looking-back neck pose.

Near letter "A" is also called a Lotus, with thin little lines, and a curve at the outer surface. This is a symbol of downward flow into the stem, and the little lines mark it as etheric/high-density flow. Image B also has little lines, but they are curved-top feathers, which are also downard flow into the stem, which goes down to the Shen portal at the bottom. The blue cone flower shapes on the sides are both upward flow. Image C has both features, cones and little lines, so I consider these to mean bidirectional flow. Same with the lower flower group on image A, having a curve at the top and cones.

Image D is Minoan, and their lotus style flowers have the little lines and also rounded shapes along the outer curve. I think those are equivalent to "rounded serrations" like on the surface of the crozier crook on image H. Those rounded surface shapes seem to mean etheric/high-density flow toward the core, downward in most cases.

Snakes along the bottom row, they have two kinds of surface, a pointy side and a rounded side. They also have a ring loop near the top of the snake, meaning a portal. Above the portal, the snake neck is doing a side-loop or looking-back kind of pose, which means bidirectional. Then I had a thought about the arms of that guy, who represents an outflow. Could it be as simple as arms showing Upward and Downward flow? From horizontal plane etheric outflow, some goes up, some goes down.