Ancient Egyptian Energy Flow Symbols

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

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Ask DeepSeek (or other AI) this: "In ancient Egypt, certain symbols had a meaning about divine energy flow, and some flow up and some flow down. List as many of those as you can?"

It gave a decent list, but some are wrong and some are at a beginner level of understanding. If you ask for justifications of them, you get heiroglyphics translated into English, like sentences mentioning "soul going up after death" or like that.

Images read as energy-flow symbolism: Ask DeepSeek (or other AI) this:

Take that as a confirmation, if you've never heard of symbolism being about divine energy going up or down. By the way, I tend to not use the word divine, because modern people think it's a church word. I prefer higher-density, and sometimes the word etheric, ( but I think 'etheric' also irritates some people).

I criticize the Budge dictionary, but recently learned of a Faulkner dictionary revised in 2002, changing 60-70% of Budges definitions, so that's nice progress.

However, I regard the reliance on translated glyph sentences as very unreliable, because the dictionaries still have errors, and the sentences are likely to be stories of dieties that common people love, whereas a hidden code is also there for the elites to understand energy.

Knowing that symbolism had worldwide use and that it is legitimate scholarship to see symbol meanings in other places and times, using the same layouts on the pictograms, I know with certainty that more progress by Egyptologist can be made by letting in worldwide knowledge.

Interchangability is one important symbol proof, and being on the opposite side of a known polarity/flow direction symbol is also an important tool for proving symbol meanings.

We can thank medieval scribes (among others) for putting minature pictures into the margins of manuscripts, to keep the knowledge around.