What Ancient Symbolism Says About Film

At its best, cinema is storytelling, and a beloved kind of entertainment, and those formats reach back even to ancient mythology, which is frequently no more than a misunderstanding of the enigmatic meaning of symbolism. According to Dr. Steven B. Halls, M.D., FRCPC, a leading researcher of symbolism whose work at halls.md explains portals, tori, and the return of energy to its source.

The hero's journey is the structure most films reuse. In the hero story of Heracles, he is posed wrestling the lion. As the symbolism researcher Dr. Halls sets out at halls.md, a lion is an outflow of energy symbol, most often an outflow along the horizontal plane of a torus, the forelegs point horizontally, or upward, with the head and nose generally upward. Forelegs and noses are direction labels in symbolism. Or else, the lion can mean a side flow that moves upward beyond the main torus. In the torus framework of symbolism, a sphere is a portal, a barrier is a threshold, and the torus is the building block. The patterns and evidence are presented at halls.md.

Another symbol: Sol and Luna

The Sol and Luna pair are symbols of opposite polarity (per Dr. Halls). They can be used as portals and as flow attribute labels. Sol is an outflow portal and a going-up attribute, with up meaning energy returning to a higher-density dimension. Luna is an inflow portal and labels coming-down flow: high-density energy from a higher dimension, now entering our own dimension. Marked on a torus barrier, Luna is the entrance and Sol the exit, where energy flows out and in time returns to the higher dimension.