Coded Ankh Symbolism, Torus Flow Planes and Portal Polarity

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2025-07-15 - view original post.

Just for fun, image A. Turn off your "literal" way-of-thinking, and think like symbolism. The upper-left has pointy poles (upward flow symbol) and those bent-back poses are "loop backs", (which count as downward/bidirectional flow symbols) and it's a crowd meaning "high-density". The upper-right has cone shaped roofs, for the upward flow side, the "opposite polarity" of the bidirectional side.

Image A and B read as symbolism: pointy poles and cone roofs as upward flow, loop-back bent-back poses and a high-density crowd, chopped-up limbs, a tabletop marking a torus horizontal plane like the Magician tarot, and an ankh whose horizontal plane sits in a big circle with half-overlapping portal circles, a top and bottom portal, an eye-portal, and a bidirectional center flow.

I posted a few days ago about the arched back pose, and my collection is here: https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/back-arch-bend/ and my normal bent back pose collection is here: https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/back-bent-hunched/ Something I don't know yet is the meaning of those limbs, "chopped up", but it is a recurring finding in symbolism, https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/chopped-up/ Fire is a portal symbol, often at the bottom of a pictogram. That table of stuff, has elements found on the Magician tarot card, and a tabletop is often the marker for a horizontal plane of a torus. That's as far as I got, I'm just showing that there is a sneaky coded aspect to image A.

Image B, has the horizontal plane of the ankh nicely placed in the big circle, and the half-overlapping smaller circles are the portals of the horizontal plane. There is also a bottom portal and a top portal. The ankh loop goes above the big circle and then does a loop back down. The Eye is a portal symbol too, the curly line is upward flow into the eye-portal and the straight line is equivalent to a straight leg symbol, downward flow from the eye. The center flow path is bidirectional.

All the other symbols on the bottom, *seem* randomly placed, but they can all be portal symbols, and have various attributes. I assume they relate to 3 bottom portals with some redunancy. The artist who made image B, got everything right about that ankh and the half-overlapping portal circles. It's impressive. What do you think?