Rope Wrap Lashings

Each rope wrap lashing on these well-known symbols is a visual label indicating that the symbol is a portal. The Shen is purely a portal. The Ankh loop functions as a portal with the extra meaning of downward flow. The Djed has a portal for upward flow at its halfway point. The proof about the meaning of lashing comes from positional evidence: lashings occur all the known portal locations.

This section reviews four primary portal locations.

Four Portals

When the pictogram includes a round shape representing a torus, refer to the green-shaded main torus and the four usual portal locations on the vertical and horizontal flow paths. Compare to the rope lashings in the Egyptian, Elamite and early medieval examples.

Eight-Portal Layout

When both orthogonal and diagonal portals are present on a pictogram, there are eight portals in total. Here are a few examples.

Waist Portals

On a person-symbol representing the center flow path through a torus, the waist is the horizontal plane. The waist is often used as a portal location, and everything above the waist is considered to be in the higher dimension. Rope wrap lashings at the waist are a symbol on these examples.

Refer to the first Djed image at the top of the page, which has rope wrap lashing at the waist level. Below are examples where a person-symbol is superimposed on a Djed. One of them has rope lashings at the waist, and the other two examples have side loops and cloth streamers, which were discussed on a previous page. The key takeaway about Djeds is that they have a waist; a horizontal plane marker. The lashings and waist portals are important to understand.

Top-center Portals

The majority of symbolism pictograms feature a top-center portal symbol. These examples use the rope lashing symbol to mark the location and possibly serve as the portal, or possibly just to anchor a portal onto a barrier. For the items that were amulets, the lashing onto the chain is consistent with lashing to a barrier symbol.

Top of Head Portals

When a person-symbol represent the center flow path through a torus, the top of the head can serve as a portal, or the headband level can be the portal.

Top- of-Body Neck Portals

When a person-symbol represents the center flow path through a torus, the top of the body can serve as a portal. Rope wrap lashing symbols provide a clear visual label for this portal at the top of the body-symbol.

Other Lashing Portals

Eyes serve as portal symbols and some have extra rope-lashing symbols. The mat held above the horizontal plane arm displays three lashings for three distinct portals. The column is an upward flow flux tube symbol, the lashings show where the open end releases flux flow, which consists of many smaller flux tubes. Most of the flux curls up but some penetrates the barrier via the capital. From the bull body-torus, flux exits via the lashings portal at the neck, turning the bull into a downward flow symbols of divine high-density energy.

Handgrip portals resemble Lashing portals

There are many ways in symbolism that a hand is a portal symbol, including fingers in various poses. When the fingers are curled around a slender object like a staff, a bird's neck, or a vine, it resembles rope lashings.

This gives support to the theory that ancient people believed that a portal needed to be anchored to a barrier, fixed in position. In addition to rope or grasping fingers, the ancients also used biting and stabbing symbols (not shown) to label and pin a portal location, creating a flow connection.

Center Flow Column with lashings

Rather than actual trees, these represent center flow paths using a column symbol. The top, bottom and midway horizontal-plane portals are all labeled with rope lashings.

The arch-shaped outer symbols represent barrier surface outflows of the torus.

Are You Convinced?

All of these examples demonstrate that the most famous symbols in the world feature portals, with rope wrap lashings marking the portal locations.

• The Ankh has a portal at the horizontal-bar dimension barrier.
• The Shen is a ring portal lashed to a barrier, with a flow symbol passing through it.
• The Djed represents a center flow column symbol with a midway portal to a higher dimension.

The Djed

The Egyptian Djed symbol. It means an upward energy flow path leading to multiple higher dimensions, rather than "strength", "stability", a spine, or other conventional platitudes.

The Djed has a suitable meaning for a funeral memorial (Nefertari's tomb) or on stelae pictograms, referencing the path to higher dimensions.

Symbolism has a wide variety of center flow path symbols. They can be a Djed, a tree trunk, a column, a person-symbol and many others. "The Three" in symbolism layouts refers to a center flow path and two side flows.

In ancient Tibetan and Himalayan teachings there were quite a few higher dimensions. The Stupa symbol uses those stacked umbrella shapes to represent portals to higher dimension. The purple-colorized cloth streamers are a visual marker for the horizontal plane of a Stupa, the same meaning as the rope lashings on a Djed.

The Norse Yggdrasil tree has three dimensions above our Midgard level; Asgard, Alfheim and Vanaheim.

The Djed's four horizontal platforms each act like the brim of a cup, where the brim is the portal level that separates one dimension from another. The little lines beneath the bigger horizontal lines, are a barrier symbol, also found also in other portal configurations.

Worldwide symbolism uses heads as portals for a body-torus. Rather than seeing Bes and Hathor as deities, view their heads as portals. Above the heads are the little lines symbol (see below) and then a horizontal brim. Those are the barriers to the next dimension.

Bes has straight feathers above the brim, indicating upward flow direction. Hathor as a row of little snakes, which are upward outflows. Barrier surfaces have little outflows. Then there is a larger snake showing upward flow into an empty "void". That structure around the void door is a portal symbol. The "open door" symbol is typically for upward flow. Anubis with ears up is an upward flow label sitting on the barrier. The Eye with wings in "corner angled" pose is likely an upward flow portal symbol as well.

Little Lines

This section shows examples where "little lines" are used on barriers.

The upper barrier is colorized purple. The lower barrier with zigzag pleats is colorized blue-green.

On boat symbols, the boat is on the horizontal plane of a portal, and everything above the boat deck is considered to be in the higher density dimension. Look for the little lines below the boat deck. Horizontal planes are a barrier and they have a portal function.

Wings are a barrier symbol and petroglyphs show them with a "little lines" pattern.

Ancient people chose wings as barrier symbols for a reason, and perhaps they knew the fine structure of barriers like the magnetopause and heliopause, and perhaps feathers resemble that.

Inspiration

Ancient knowledge is being recovered to provide inspiration about how the universe potentially works, hopefully.

Raising questions like: Why are wings a barrier symbol? Why are little lines a barrier symbol?

When magnetic flux spills out of the end of a flux tube, or passes through a portal into a different torus or dimension, it very quickly reassembles barrier surfaces to form new smaller flux tubes, and it apparently can inflate new torus bubbles with an outer barrier around that torus.

The idea of self-assembly of barrier sheets seems like a 2D crystallization. Feather structure resembles ice crystal patterns, and iron oxide dendrite patterns, and graphite 2D sheets of carbon crystals. If nature can do this with atoms, it ought to be able to do it with tori of sub-atomic sizes.

The images below are of feathers, iron- and manganese oxides, graphite, and ice crytalization.

Captives

The lashing of elbows or wrists carries a hidden symbolic meaning. Lashing marks the location of a portal, as demonstrated throughout the examples on this page.

The Best Evidence about Lashed Elbows: An Example from Egypt

Elbows carry a symbolic meaning referencing the horizontal plane of a torus. This is demonstrated on the Cloth Streamers page, particularly the section about cloth crossing-over the elbow or forearm.

Wrists also have a symbolic meaning. In ancient symbolism, arms represent flux tubes and wrists are the distal end where flux exits the tube. Wrist portal symbols were covered on the page examining bangles with converging heads rings.

Analyzing the Components

In the images below, both snake bodies represent upward-flowing flux tubes. Snake heads and lion heads each serve as outflow symbols with open mouths acting as portals.

Dots and small circles represent energy flow throughout ancient symbolism. The brim of a water well is a portal symbol while a flux tube containing dots is flowing upward and then returning downward as a loop-back.

Loop-backs are a central theme in ancient symbolism. Arches positioned above two columns likewise depict this loop-back energy flow cycling. That is, energy that returns to us from a higher dimension in a divine high-density state.

Arches are dual symbolic role: depicting loop-back flow paths while simultaneously also serving as the upper barrier symbol to the torus beneath. The keystone position of an arch often has a barrier penetration portal symbol (though not in this instance). In this colorized diagram, blue represents the flow inside the flux tube and orange represents the small outflows from the surface of the tube.

The snake and lion images from Egypt represent loop-backs, carrying a divine downward energy-flow meaning. The headgear on the lion likewise has this same meaning.

Thousands of Aquarius pictograms exist because they represent the downward flow of energy (the core subject of ancient symbolism). The receiving symbols, such as cups, bowls, or chalices, act as downward inflow portals.

The brim of a chalice serves as a portal, while a bent-over person-symbol represents a downward flow symbol. A "looking-back" head (a head turned to look back at its body) is an inflow symbol.

Pouring seeds functions very similarly to the snake outflowing dots, and their destination is to the waist, the horizontal plane, the core of the person-symbol torus.

Secondary Evidence regarding lashings on elbows and wrists.

Captivity or servitude imagery does not carry the the literal meaning into symbolism. The lashing simply marks the portal location and the true significance is the flow directon of forearms and hands distal to the lashing portal.

Saint Sebastian as a person-symbol is receiving horizontal inflow that uses arrows as flow symbols. The Archer was the outflow source. The rope lashing on wrists indicate the arm portals are having downward flow.

Another depiction of Saint Sebastian also features horizontal inflow from arrow symbols. He has bidirectional arms, one for upward outflow and the other for downward flow.

Mandrakes feature a portal at the top of their heads and the foliage above serving as typical outflow symbol, much like branches on a tree trunk marking the boundary to the next higher dimension. Meanwhile wavy hair indicates a downward outflow direction from the head-portal. Mandrakes are bidirectional flow symbols, earning divine status because downward energy flow is what ancient tradition valued as divine.

Downward arms are often rope lashed at the wrists on mandrakes, though not on this particular example.

Next, we compare upward praying hands with downward crossed wrists, which represent opposite polarities.

Upward hands resemble praying or worshipping, but carry a simpler hidden meaning about upward direction flow of energy.

When wrists cross at the midline, it signifies an inflow to the core. More technically, the flow begins as a horizontal outflow from the shoulders into the arms; the arms then execute a side loop, returning that flow back into the core as a divine inflow.

Crossed wrists may or may not include rope lashing. The lashing simply labels the open end of an arm flux tube, nothing more.

Opposite polarities: upward hands and crossed wrists.

Each person-symbol, Mary and Gabriel, is associated with half of the open book portal symbol. Open books frequently depict both polarities.

Opposite polarities: upward hands and crossed wrists.

A vesica pisces shape, placed instead of a rope lashing, represents the core of a body-torus.