Forehead Snake Symbolism and Loop-Back Portals

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2025-04-27 - view original post.

It's just a loop-back, that forehead snake. Except it likes to curl upward to show it's front markings after it leaves the portal of the horizontal plane. But then it's final head pointing direction is horizontal, usually.

Egyptian forehead snakes making a loop-back path over the curved top of the head, with headbands marking the horizontal plane of the head-torus, portal markers including a figure-8 infinity shape, a flower, and rings made of snake body, and two snakes drooping down from a circle portal.
A Ganesha figure whose belly is a sphere shape with a horizontal plane clearly marked, with a similar forehead snake.

Things to recall from previous posts. The head-torus can mark it's horizontal plane with a headband, like image A. Everything above the headband is considered to be in a higher-density reality, so the curve path over the top of a head is the "loop" and then it comes back down into our reality and exits via a portal. The artists were not strict about making the portal be superimposed on the headband.

Image B uses a figure-8/infinity shape as a portal marker, image C uses a flower as portal, image D and E just use a ring made of snake body.

Many of these Egyptian forehead snakes have a visible body going over the curved top of the head, but not all do, but we should assume it is implied. Image F is a different kind of example of a snake making that curved loop-back path over the top of the head. Not just snakes, many animals can do loop-backs over a head. https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/mohawk/

Many Egyptian pictograms have two snakes drooping down from a circle portal ( which isn't the sun ). They are a little easier to decode from the late examples in image G, H and I. The path of the snake has tail going upward then head coming back down... more loop-backs.

Forget the excuse that it means "divine authority", they pin that bad guess onto all sorts of things. It's just a loop-back, because bidirectional flow that brings etheric/high-density energy and communication back into our reality, is considered Divine, something good.

My second image, where Ganesha's belly is a sphere shape with a horizontal plane clearly marked, some have a similar snake.