Hebrew Letter Hey Through the Lens of Stan Tenen

Hebrew 'Hey'. One year ago, I posted about a few Hebrew letters, https://www.facebook.com/steven.b.halls/posts/pfbid02qyiiEfkeBxVw2TREx79U5vRudNp3FB4rmrWRjLXE5kiSsJPcAkboFjTszTfNvP63l and the post was fairly random observations, but I think they are still valid. Todays post was prompted by someone mentioning Stan Tenen. His book (I own) and videos are quite influential with orienting our thinking toward symbolism and ancient letters being about the Torus.

But Stan didn't know about the horizontal plane flows of a torus, which are not taught to modern people, but are depicted extensively in symbolism. Had Stan known about horizontal plane flow, he could have done even better.

A few things prompted me to look again at my Hebrew letters collection, and this time focussing mostly on the 'Hey' symbol. I admit here, that I'm "picking and choosing" certain images to support my proposals, while other images of 'Hey' are lacking those features. But murky confusion from many variations of symbols is what I deal with every day, and gradually patterns emerge and make sense.

Point 1. Images A and B are using cloth ribbons to mark the horizontal bar, and image C is one of many "scribe" pictograms that use it, and usually as shown with a horizontal component at the waist level. Please also notice the similarity of C to the "Lamed" (the letter that goes the highest) on image A, and snake posts on Jan 3 where part of the snake crosses horizontally.

Image D uses a horizontal animal body. This is something I haven't posted much about, but it would be easy to show that horizontal animal bodies are used at the bottom, or across the horizontal plane, in pictograms. Also notice the tower pointing up on image D, doing what the Lamed is doing in it's upper part, it's pointing to a portal to a higher density. Image H uses a square shape to represent a torus, and the horizontal bar of 'Hey' is in a good place to represent the horizontal plane.

Point 2. Image J is to remind us of the 'two column layout'. Each column often is marked with opposite polarity symbols, (but not always). Columns having Upward flow on one side, and Downward bidirectional flow markers on the other side, is a common pattern.

Image B and D have those two columns, that's my proposal by the way, that they often have different symbol markings on them (but not always). It's hard to decode all these. Sometimes (like image E and F) those two columns look identical. Sometimes not, like G and I. Image I is pretty suggestive of one column "up" and the other "bidirectional".

Point 3. Square torus and Round torus symbols are just variations. Square seems more ancient. On Menorah, the upper half is a rounded half-circle shape "half portal", ( I have several menorah posts during the last year), and the bottom portal can be many shapes, like cones, rounded, or steps, but I'm choosing to show N and O as examples with square lower portals. Image P is kindof fun because I was posting about nodes on a chalice on Jan 6, and this P menorah has several of them.

I was deeply influenced by seeing image M for the first time, because it has a top-center portal half-circle portal symbol, and portals on the horizontal plane sides. (Hands with stigmata are common portal symbols.) Image L shows a similar shape, plus a long-narrow-neck container which is an upward outflow symbol, indicating flow entering from the bottom flask portal, into the square shape.

In symbolism, an "open door" https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/open-or-closed-door/ is used to indicate the "south" inflow zone into the bottom of a torus. On image K, "Libra"s upward-bulge, or a circle symbol overlapping a barrier line, is a portal symbol. Shen is also a portal symbol, and Omega seems to be an open door at the bottom of a torus portal symbol. A circle between wings, the wings are the barrier, the circle is the portal. Image K was on the internet, I'm not the only one to realize this meaning.

Summarizing point 3. Since Round and Square torus symbols are interchangeable variations, L and M seem equivalent to Omegas, and the 'Hey' symbol seems like a half torus symbol that is open at the bottom. As such, it could have been a portal symbol that became abbreviated into a Hebrew letter.

Point 4, is different, it's about the 'Yod' on the left side of image F. It is marked with a very distict curl symbol, and those are pretty reliable for showing a flow direction, in this case, upward. Image H is someone's art, indicating with arm position that Yod is an upward flow. There was more/different supporting evidence about Yod, one year ago, saying it was outflow (flow away from the core), and today's post emphasizes it is an upward flow.

Summary: By using words and pictures in ways that are different from whats 'commonly accepted as true' on the internet. You can decide and add it to your understanding without displacing anything else. Thanks for looking and reading.