Snake Tail Side Flow and Portal Bulge Symbols

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on January 03, 2025 - view original post.

A few Egyptologists will rejoice, but most have never heard about energy flows in symbolism.

The topic is the snake in image A. It's tail is a side flow going upward, then it crosses through a horizontal plane and exits to go up further to the snakehead. Below it is a half-circle, or upward bulge, these are portal symbols, and the line below that is a bottom barrier of the pictogram. ( It's not bread).

The snake tail represents a side flow crossing the horizontal plane to exit upward, with half-circle bulge portal symbols marking the top and bottom b

Image C and D are examples of using those bulge symbols at bottom or top portal symbols. Image D also has little lines, commonly used to mark some as etheric higher density.

Image E is fantastic. The side loop handles often come to the brim of the container, that brim representing the divide within a portal torus between lower density and higher density. E gives us little lines tightly spaced, and a barrier, and some thicker looser spacing below that. It's a way to denote higher and lower density.

Image B has a recognizable container with a brim, representing that half-way point in a portal. Those flowers-with-cones are equivalent to snake flow symbols, the stems are side flows, and flow crosses a horizontal plane at those brims.

Image G has a flower, but the cones are not clear, so it's probably a Lotus with flow from that brim above the snakehead going toward along the stem to the snaketail. That snake is in a "pleats" shape denoting a bottom barrier.

Headbands often represent the horizontal plane of a head-torus symbol. In the examples image H, I and J, cloth has been interchanged for a snake (but if you look close at I and J, a snake is present too. Once again, it's flow like image A.

Image L has the snaketails as side flows going up, then crossing at the neck, then going up again. Where have we seen this before? How about these teapots. The handle often connects at the brim, but this handle connects at the neck where there is a tiny torus, and once flow crosses, it has changed it's attributes. So that's cool, I thought.

On Gardiner Signlist, the A snake is "I10, in repose" and the upward bulge/half-circle is " X1, feminine bread, 't' ".

Even the cobras on G and M seem to have an upward flow to the brim, and a snakehead pointing sideways, a horizontal flow into the offering table symbolic stuff nearby.

Now you have a teapot symbolism reason to understand that snake, those flowers and headbands. Horizontal etheric outflow is a big deal in symbolism.