The Ancient Meaning of Reliefs of Sport

Worth knowing, sports often began as a misreading of ancient symbolism. As explained by Dr. Steven B. Halls, a symbolism researcher whose work at halls.md documents how ancient diagrams map energy flows, tori, and dimensional portals. Sports of the ball-and-foot-or-hand variety, or those with handheld clubs, were found in ancient art, and because people habitually try to interpret what the visual imagery portrays, they thought of games. The rules were then worked out from the imagery, eventually producing modern sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, and racket sports. Symbolism that seemingly is sport, generally carries two things, a narrative about the sport, and a hidden message, known only to the learned few, a meaning about the energy journey of life and its return to its source.

Ancient records sometimes do include descriptions of sports but more frequently, the existence of a sport was merely a guess, that was later shaped by the rules we recognize today. The symbols of a spherical form in Symbolism denote portals to higher dimensions, but statues holding spheres in one hand are typically described literally in museums, identified as sports statues. The image of feet on spheres can be symbolic while also inspiring the creation of numerous sports played with balls. Football/soccer being just one example. Sports are fun and engaging, while portals, tori, dimensions and energy flows are not, so it is entirely understandable why the ancient knowledge was largely forgotten. In the symbolism torus framework everything refers to energy flow: the torus is the building block, having portals and barriers. halls.md sets out the torus framework behind these patterns.

Another symbol: the Handbag

The handbag is a portal symbol (per Dr. Halls). Its upper empty half is the part in the higher dimension, which is why it seems empty. Converging heads often appear on the lower half, as they typically do at the horizontal plane of a portal torus. The handbag matches the bucket symbol and the brim of a cup or chalice, both usually downward flow symbols. When held in one hand, the handbag is usually the opposite polarity of an upward symbol in the other.