Loop Back Flow Patterns in Symbolic Art

Better late than never, my recent posts about "loop back" symbols, helped me realize something about double-headed eagles.

Long-neck-birds, (or snakes, teapot handles, etc) can be flow symbols, which extend upward above a barrier and then make a loop and then flow then comes back downward into our-reality. See my other recent posts on this topic.

Images A and B are examples where the side flows (birds) are going upward, then their flow loops back down into the center flow path.

Image C was shown before. I colorized the green mound on a wing, which is serving as a portal symbol to a side flow. For image C the bird body is the center flow and it loops back into a side flow portal.

The rest of the images are center flow that goes upward above the barrier (the plane of the wings joining the body) and then loops downward to the side flow mound portals.

I've also previously covered "Side loops" where flow goes out from a horizontal plane and then goes inward at a horizontal plane, of the next higher, or lower torus, or sometimes the same torus at a different spot on the horizontal plane.

This post today is kindof equivalent, except it involves the vertical flow path, and shows a few ways that flow can loop. It seems rather simple in retrospect.

Next, I suppose I'll have to make a post about those mermaids with two fish tails, like the starbucks logo. They seem like side-flow to center-flow loops on the bottom.