Animals Looking Back Represent Side Loop Flows
Looking back, like the bird near letter A. I've been working on those. Image A seems to be horizontal animal body, aligned to indicate flow along the horizontal plane of a torus, and then that flow exits the torus into side flows, and some goes up, some goes down.
Image B really pleased me. Those flowers with cones show flow direction, and some is curving up towards the Hathor head. I didn't know that upside-down Hathors would work, but apparently they work just fine as bottom and top portal symbols.
Image C made me glad to have worked on Paisley. The paisley outflow that curls back is often a vertically oriented "Loop-back", but when the paisley is horizontal, it's being shown to be equivalent to the horse body, making the horse neck looking back into a sideways loop-back, what I've been calling a "side loop".
This will come in handy to know for boat symbolism like image D, E and F. The looking back heads indicate the stern of the boat and the flow direction of the boat symbol (a horizontal plane flow) is from stern to bow. Not every boat-symbol follows this pattern, but many do.
Image G has side loops happening on both sides, that is, horizontal outflows that curl back in, and it could re-enter at the same horizontal plane, or at a higher level like image H.
Image I uses a teapot handle as a side loop. The yellow arrow points to the barrier between density realities. The handle goes above the barrier and then does a loop-back. I had been puzzled by what is at the yellow arrow, but I think it's settled now.
Flows that come back into a torus, particularly at the sides or the top, or the upper diagonal portals, those are considered etheric/higher-density energy, and apparently worthy of reverence. I'm trying to make this decoding not just physics, but also about why these ended up as stand alone religious symbols too.