Indus Valley Boat Sterns, Snakes and Side Loops

Dr. Steven B Halls | September 2026

This material was originally posted to Facebook on December 05, 2024 - view original post.

Boats, snakes, ladders, bending branches, side loops. Image A, B and C are from Indus Valley, and on the stern of the boats there are very puzzling curved branches, snakes or ladders, or something else, I'm not sure what those curves are.

Indus Valley boat sterns carry puzzling curved branches, snakes or ladders, echoing Nautilus and teapot side loops that connect one torus plane to the

Image A is probably snakes, and it reminded me of my posts about the Nautilus (image G) , and teapots (image M) where side loops connect from the horizontal plane of a torus to the next higher torus. Image N is showing that side loop with a rainbow.

The little lines below the boat on image B and C, I think they are a marker of high-density energy, acting as a barrier at the horizontal plane, probably. Combs like image J, make use of these lines for the embedded symbolism (as well as for literal hair combing).

Oars like image D,E and F will seem like only literal oars, unless you also know how little lines work in symbolism.

So that's the purpose of this post, just for me to say these Indus boats have a curved side loop symbol on the stern, and a little lines barrier below the boat.

Image H with it's snake, might be doing the side loop duty, and it's Pleats serpentiney body, is a barrier symbol. Directly above the serpentiney loops, touching it, is a symbol that marks a portal. So it's got a barrier and a portal, and the boat and people on it are in higher density.

Image I doesn't have a clear side loop, but I wanted to point out the little lines on the boat are the same as on the strata layers of the clothing. You might be dismissive and say the boat is made of the same thatched fibers as the clothing, but I still think little lines have symbolism.

Image L is awesome for using an arm making a side loop from a body to a higher torus acting as a Sol portal.

My collections: (The first is a joke name, it should be Indus boats) https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/flying-carpet/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/nautilus/ https://ca.pinterest.com/stevenbhalls/teapot/

P.S., I horizontally flipped about half of these images so that the side loop would be on the left of the image, to make comparison more obvious.