Offering Tables, Chalice Cups, and Horizontal Plane Symbolism

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on 2025-01-18 - view original post.

Tabletop RPG. I am trying to link the Egyptian offering table to subsequent symbolism, and thereby link the piled food to fruit and flower symbolism.

But first, I'm pointing out in image A to E that the table stand can look like a chalice cup but that can be shortened into just a horizontal tabletop, representing a horizontal plane.

The Egyptian offering table stand resembles a chalice cup shortened into a horizontal tabletop, marking the plane where piled food penetrates upward i

Recall that a church or fancy building symbol, has a meaning about being in a higher new reality, where things like architecture are more fancy (and maybe the food is better or abundant).

The cup of a chalice (like image F) is a half-sphere portal symbol, and it's brim is the horizontal plane. Above that is the next higher density. Image F and G put fancy buildings above the horizontal plane.

Sidebar taking note that flowers are probably a modern substitution for fruit cones, in image H and I.

Images J, K and R show more fancy buildings above a table stand (like a chalice stem with no cup in these examples), and I like image R because it has two side flow symbols.

Image L and M are some cornucopias. Image N hardly belongs here, but it's a stack of cup brims, where a plate marks the barrier between realities, so it's similar to a djed or stupa towers.

Image O by Carrington. It has a horizontal plane outflow from the chair seat, that flows upward above the tabletop, and then becomes a side flow around a silvery smaller torus symbol.

Image P by Remedios Vero, has a smaller chalice above the tabletop, where small means etheric. Image Q has fruit above the tabletop, and connections going even higher. These surreal artists somehow know symbolism very well.