Boat Stern Symbols Indicate Horizontal Flow Direction

Back of the boat, the stern symbols that indicate a horizontal flow direction toward the symbol on the front bow. I'm not talking about literal boat movement, these boat-symbols are parts of pictograms, and recognizing the stern markings helps establish the bidirectional side-flow side of the pictogram.

My previous post had a few boats with simple sideways "loop-backs", like what is below letter "G". This post has different variations we can learn.

Image A, B, C and D are weird curves, which at first seem opposite of the stern of G. We just have to accept these, because the markings are clear.

Image A has a red circle portal and an eye portal as flow direction markers, from stern to bow.

Image B has a shen portal at the stern which is ambiguous, but the eye portal is usually an outflow portal.

Image C is a bit like a snaketail. For both straight and curved shapes that have bumps on one surface and smooth on the other, that *may* mean a bidirectional, but I'm not sure yet.

Image D has a forward-pointing bird on the bow. I'm using that as evidence. Many times, there are no markers, so we're lucky to get that bird.

Image E is a more simple sideways loop-back, similar to G, and it is good correlation to the Naqada II boat-symbols like image F.

Image H, I and J have a different weird stern symbol, I haven't figured out what it resembles, but its always on the stern. For now, we just have to memorize it.

Image K has those polarity kind of hats ( mistakenly called crowns of upper and lower Egypt). The cone is the bow's outflow, the bucket is the stern's inflow symbol.

Why learn this?, because we need hints about the other stuff on the deck of the boats.

Image A has an upward knife and a slender black upward outflow symbol. It has rope ties in the middle, and a square-end scarf leading to it (which also means upward flow). Image B also has this.

Image C is where I made a mistake in the past. I formerly thought all that stuff on the bow marked it as the inflow side, but accumulated evidence has made me change my mind. Anyway, the baboon holding an eye upward, is the up outflow marker.

Image D has a variety of upward poles, the scarfs show an upward direction at their tops.

Image G, even though it has an eye at the stern, that side is the bidirectional side. Below the boat is a snake that is thin at the stern and thicker at the bow. Thin to thick, I'm exploring that as a possible flow direction marker, and it seems to work. The crocodile in image K may simply be there as a flow direction marker.

It will turn out, that other horizontal plane symbols like beds, will sometimes have these sort of markers on the ends of beds.

Image K's hats/crowns. If Egyptologists would loosen-up and realize that "higher" and "Upper" could refer not to literal geography but to etheric/heavenly/higher-density reality and our-reality being "Lower", then a lot more will start making sense, and we can blame Sir Budge for putting bad-guess entries in a translation dictionary.