Tube Tension and Gravity in Ocean Churning Symbols

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2025-02-10 - view original post.

Is tube tension gravity? There's not much indication in symbolism, but these layouts called "churning of the ocean milk" might be an example.

The turtle has a central mound/bulge and usually used as the bottom-center portal. A vertical flow path often goes up to a lily pad, which represents the top-center portal. Above that lily pad, is a new reality in a different torus.

Analyzing ancient ocean churning imagery, the post suggests that tense horizontal tubes connecting vertical portals explain structural stability, prop

Unfortunately, in image A and B the turtle is quite close to the surface where the snake loops are, but on C,D and E, the turtle is lower, "at foot level". I have a small collection of more examples here: https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/churning/

The snake loops around the vertical path are usually "at waist level" of the people pulling on the snake. The waist represents the horizontal plane of a torus in symbolism.

The snake is being a horizontal flow path, going into- and outof- that vertical structure, and apparently it loops around while going through.

People are symbols of tori too. In these layouts, I think the snake is acting as a connection tube, but in other layouts, snakes can be just for shapes or for flow directions.

There is tension passing through the people on both sides of the central structure. To me, the message is about the structure not being able to drift away randomly. If you want to cross-link tori to make fancy structures like barrier sheets or tubes, this tension seems essential.

The horizontal plane through a torus is for higher-density flows. We surface humans are not able to detect those higher-density things. Snakes aren't always high-density, but for this kind of "churning" layout, the snake, representing a tube, must be in higher-density.

What if.. gravity is undetectable tubes that prefer to pass horizontally through tori when creating cross-linked structures?