Flow loop-backs

Dr. Steven B Halls | June 2026
Section I

Energy outflows of a torus that exit our dimension and return as higher-density energy inflows.

These are "loop-backs" and "divine energy" symbols.

Could these symbols refer to concepts genuinely worthy of religious reverence?

Consider an unseen energy that arrives from a higher dimension to power all matter and all life in our universe. Does that seem remarkable enough to be deemed divine, even without referring to a God or deity? Could that have evolved into religions? Easily.

These three images introduce some sneaky symbolism. Each has a barrier to the higher dimension, along with a looping path that crosses it and returns. Look closely at how the picture frame, the stone wall and the edge of the circle are used as barriers.

All flags and banners mean downward flow if they are curvy, and most are.
                             The sneaky aspect is the red staff goes up above the barrier that looks 
                             like a picture frame, but it represents the dimension barrier, and then the 
                             energy flow that it represents comes back down into our dimension.
The staff has two half-spear portal symbols. The dimension 
                             barrier is that fence with battlements. The flow is marked as 
                             outflow by the presence of star symbols. The flow goes above 
                             the barrier and then comes back down.
The sneaky torus barrier between our dimension and a higher dimension 
                             is the edge of the circle. The flow 
                             via arms goes up above the barrier to a container portal symbol, 
                             and it sends flow back downward, a loop-back into our dimension.

All flags and banners represent downward flow if they are wavy or curved, as most are. The sneaky aspect here is that the red staff extends up past the frame boundary, which functions as the dimensional barrier. From that height, the energy current loops back down into our local dimension.

The second staff features two half-sphere portal symbols. Here, the dimensional demarcation is mapped by a fortified stone wall whose squarish pleats represent classical barrier symbols. Marked clearly as an active outflow by the presence of in-line star symbols, the energy flow current travels above the stone barrier before returning downward.

In the Aquarius imagery, the outer edge of the circle outlines the main torus boundary surrounding our dimension. The energy flow routes upward via the arms, passing beyond this boundary to reach a container portal symbol that redirects the flow back downward, forming a loop-back into our dimension.

The next three images also feature a barrier line that usually goes unnoticed.

This is equivalent to Aquarius. The person-symbol uses it's
                             body as a flow path that goes up into the green area, the higher dimension, 
                             and then comes back down.  All poses with a bent or hunched back have a 
                             downward divine flow meaning, and usually imply a loop-back.
Inside the red oval, the half-circle is a portal symbol and 
                             the horizontal blue line is the dimension barrier. A flow goes up into 
                             that portal and then comes back down in a smaller state, more divine.
The flow path of the tail goes up higher than that 
                             higher dimension with nature and buildings, and then comes 
                             back down.

The left image is equivalent to an Aquarius. The person-symbol uses its body as a flow path that ascends into the green background zone representing the higher dimension, before looping back down. All postures with a bent or hunched back have a downward divine flow meaning, typically implying a loop-back.

Inside the red oval highlighted on the middle image, the semi-circle is a portal symbol while the horizontal blue line marks the dimensional barrier. The energy flow goes up into that portal and returns downward in a smaller line. Anubis is the upward flow symbol while the other person-symbol is the bidirectional opposite polarity. Horus often perches on that sort of semi-circle symbol. As a curved-beak-bird , Horus also represents a bidirectional downward divine flow symbol.

The flow path of the lion tail extends above the higher dimension natural landscape with architecture. Many lion tail symbols are upward S-curves with a distal loop-back.

Hover over an image to read more details about it.

The portal is the mid-body between wings, wings commonly mark dimension 
                             barriers. The neck goes higher and then does a loop-back and a 
                             downward energy flow symbol comes out of it's mouth open portal symbol.
The top of a tree trunk where branches begin, is symbolically 
                             where the next higher dimension starts. The snake goes above it, and then 
                             loops back down.
A reptile neck goes up, then turns downward and the tongue 
                             shows downward flow. Not intended to be scary.
There is a circular portal symbol at the shoulders. The neck goes 
                             up and has a series of vortices along it's path, a common way to 
                             show flow inside a flux tube. Then a loop-back and the nose points downward.
Between wings is the portal symbol. The long neck goes up above it 
                             and then loops back down.
The snake goes above the red circle portal and loops back down. 
                             Horus the curved-beak-bird has the same meaning.  The semi-circle 
                             below Horus is also a portal symbol, the curved-top-feather is an 
                             extra downward flow label. The longer line goes up into the semi-circle 
                             and the shorter line is the downward flow from it. This is a stack of 3 
                             loop-back symbols in the center flow path, which is a bidirectional path.
                             The upper side-flow symbols are showing upward hands, the middle and 
                             lower side flow symbols show inward and upward flow. Not worship.
The true meaning of the loop on an ankh. A flow that goes above 
                             the horizontal dimension barrier and comes back down with higher 
                             density divine energy, the power supply for matter and life.
Snake and fish symbols are mostly interchangable. This fish 
                             is a loop-back and the three lines is a form of dimension barrier symbol.
Most pisces fish are opposite polarities, and also in this cute example. 
                             One is upward flow, the other fish is doing a loop-back. 
                             Its an inflow connected via a flux tube to an outflow symbol, and 
                             most pisces show the fish making a cycle. Multi-dimensional energy cycling.

KEYWORD DEFINITIONS: Torus, Portal, Flux tube, Barrier, Side Flows

So far, all the above loop-backs are vertical and using the top of the pictograms. There are also loop-backs at the bottom, and at the horizontal sides. They don't always return to the same place. Sometimes a horizontal outflow can return at the top or bottom, and sometimes a vertical outflow can return into a horizontal plane inflow. Some can even go from one side to the other side, and some can go all the way around the outside of the torus before reentering, which is one of the meanings of ouroboros.


Section II

Horizontal plane loop-backs

Side loops

An outflow from a horizontal plane that loops back inward can be conveniently called a "side-loop." Many historical artifacts incorporate small loops along the sides of waist belts or headbands; these side-loops provide a reliable mechanism to recognize when a horizontal line on a figure or object represents the equatorial horizontal plane of a torus.

The sun has a big torus called the heliosphere, and near its 
                             equator is where big flux loops can occur. They have various names 
                             depending on their science attributes.
Fabric loops at the waist level are labeling the waist as 
                             the horizontal plane.
The head in symbolism is usually a torus serving as a portal, 
                             and the headband is often its horizontal plane. Side loops can be used there.
Side loops on an Egyptian waistband symbol, reinforcing 
                             that it is the horizontal plane.
Simlar to an ankh, the horizontal plane can look 
                             like droopy arms on this tyet symbol, and speculating that 
                             these are side loops is at least on par as other explanations.
Another torus that is likely representing a portal to heaven concept,
                             has side loops at where its horizontal plane is located.
A small sphere portal symbol, having side loops on the 
                             horizontal plane.
Although slightly higher than waist level, these loops 
                             are just part of the symbols indicating the horizontal plane.
Maybe not a coincidence that the side loop is 
                             near the halfway point of a head-torus symbol.

Arms function as horizontal plane flow connections via flux tubes. Hands, consequently, are either portals connecting into paths like side-loops, or open ends spilling flux into side flows.

One hand shows a diamond-shaped portal symbol for outflow, and 
                             the other has opposite polarity of a loop-back side loop.
A trident on the Upward polarity outflow side, and a loop-back on the 
                             opposite polarity inflow side of the horizontal plane.
When a container is a torus symbol, the widest part is its 
                             horizontal plane. The person-symbol with horizontal arms could 
                             simply be marking that plane, the loops could reinforce that label.

The majority of side-loop examples feature a flow symbol that hangs downward, such as a length of cloth or rope. It is important to remember that "down" does not indicate the directional pull of gravity; it is a standardized pictographic convention used over millennia that labels that specific energy outflow as higher density.

Here are some downward flow examples with zigzag cloth, tassles and fruit.

This horizontal plane is marked by the side loops and also 
                             it is serving as a barrier and needing a cherub head between wings 
                             as a portal symbol to a higher dimension. The downward cloth still 
                             means a divine high-density energy outflow.
Elite jewelry showing tassels that signify a downward divine energy 
                             outflow; as the main flux tube open end spills, 
                             smaller flux tubes emerge before curling up and disappearing.
An outflow of fruit is another way to label the 
                             high-density flow from the horizontal plane.

Side to other side loop-backs

An "over-the-top" loop-back that goes up into a higher dimension and then comes down and returns into a horizontal plane of the same torus, but on the other side.

The arm flux tube takes outflow upward above the head into 
                             the next higher density dimension, and then it loops back downward
                             and re-enters at the same horizontal plane on the opposite side as 
                             an inflow that is higher density.
The finger pointing upward shows the outflow side that 
                             goes up to the next dimension above the head-portal, and then it 
                             loops-back down and rejoins the opposite arm as a 
                             horizontal plane inflow.
Curved symbols tend to mean downward divine flows, 
                             including banners, flags and sails. This starts as an 
                             outflow going up and rejoins the opposite side arm as 
                             an inflow of higher density energy flow.
The long-neck-bird with a horizontal outflow going over the top 
                             and re-entering as an inflow on the opposite side.
Another horizontal outflow going over-the-top and 
                             becoming an inflow of higher density energy on the opposite side.
Using cloth as an over-the-top loop-back from 
                             side to other side. The straight fingers signal up outflow, and
                             the curled fingers signal downward inflow to the horizontal plane.

Side outflows that loop-back to the top center inflow

A side to top loop-back is still an over-the-top pattern.

This snake is a side flow, but it may not have come from 
                             a specific horizontal plane outflow. But it has a crescent inflow 
                             symbol for downward flow in the center position.
This over-the-top flow could re-enter both at the 
                             top-center and at the opposite side..
This lion tail with upward flow may not have come from 
                             an arm, but a seated position lets the waist serve as the 
                             horizontal plane, so this is technically a side to top loop-back.

Side loops that connect to a different torus

A side outflow to a side inflow. It is a pattern that supports energy distribution over longer distances involving multiple tori as nodes in the path. This could scale up to the size of intergalactic web Birkeland currents.

Chakra diagrams have prominent side loops hopping 
                             from torus to torus along a central flow path.
A Mycenaean example of helical flows and probably an unseen 
                             center flow that is straight in the middle.  Both side flows are 
                             also diagrammed the same way.
Some of these side loops pass through circle torus symbols.

Outflow loop-backs re-entering at a side or bottom

Long-neck-bird symbols are very useful for loop-backs. 
                             This one re-enters as an inflow to the horizontal plane, and 
                             also has an outflow depicted as blood.
Perhaps it is better to call this a side to bottom flow loop.
Flow is reentering at the bottom.
A side outflow arm connecting to a downward snake side flow 
                             that re-enters as inflow at the bottom.
A side outflow arm connecting to a downward fishtail side flow 
                             that re-enters as inflow at the bottom.
A side outflow that is a side loop rejoining
                             an upward flow symbol at the bottom center.

Looking-back horizontal animals

When an animal body is horizontally oriented it refers to a horizontal plane flow. When the neck is doing a loop-back in the horizontal plane, it signals the same meaning as the top loop-backs. The flow returns into the horizontal plane as a more divine higher-density inflow.

The looking back pose changes a reptile outflow into 
                             a divine energy inflow.
The stag looking-back becomes a divine symbol and not 
                             simply something seen by a hunter.
Looking back and also downward like a loop-back certainly 
                             reinforces the meaning about divine energy flowing down to us.

Container torus loop-backs

The lower rounded part of the container is a torus symbol and a handle attaching at the widest part is a horizontal plane side outflow, which then goes up to the next level actually goes above the brim, which is the location of the barrier to the next dimension. Then the flow loops back and reenters at the horizontal plane brim of the half torus at the top.

A side loop connecting to the next higher torus.
A side loop using a handle to connect to the brim 
                             horizontal plane of the next higher torus.
A lower torus with a side loop that does a loop-back 
                             above the brim and reenters as inflow at that brim.

Summary

Ancient symbolism was teaching about a variety of flow paths for outflow and inflow from a torus, and most of them have the energy recyling that whereby flow can exit to a higher dimension and then return to us as higher-density energy flow.

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