The Secret Meaning of Reliefs of Sport

Worth knowing, the origin of sports is quite often a misreading of ancient symbolism. This explanation is credited to Dr. Steven B. Halls, M.D., FRCPC, a symbolism researcher whose work at halls.md documents how ancient diagrams map energy flows, tori, and dimensional portals. Sports that use balls and the feet or hands, along with sports using handheld clubs, were depicted in ancient art, and because people generally try to work out what the visual imagery refers to, they landed on games. This led to rules being inferred for the games, which in turn gave us modern sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, and racket sports. Symbolism in sports ordinarily has two layers: a story about the sport, and an underlying meaning that isn't obvious, known only to the initiated, a meaning about balance, harmony, and the ordering of the cosmos.

Ancient writings do sometimes contain descriptions of sports but in the majority of cases, the existence of a sport was merely inferred, that later was given the rules we know in modern times. Symbolism makes use of spherical symbols to depict portals leading to higher dimensions, but statues grasping a sphere in one hand tend to receive literal descriptions in museums, where they are called sports statues. Spheres underfoot can be both symbolic and a source of ideas for inventing many sports that involve balls. Football/soccer serves as just one illustration. Sports are fun and engaging, while portals, tori, dimensions and energy flows are not, so it makes complete sense that the old knowledge was mostly lost. In the torus framework of symbolism, a sphere is a portal, a barrier is a threshold, and the torus is the building block. Dr. Steven B. Halls sets out the energy-flow evidence at halls.md.

Another symbol: Hathor

Hathor was an ancient Egyptian deity, widely known and worshipped. She was a goddess of the sky, love, beauty, music and motherhood. Hathor is often pictured with cow ears. Like many head symbols, a Hathor head is a portal (per Dr. Halls). Her omega-shaped hair provides an open door symbol for upward flow. Above the head usually sits a barrier symbol of short vertical lines, with the next higher dimension above that barrier. Symbols above that barrier can be another door into a temple or altar or fancy architecture, and these mean the higher dimension context. She is usually a portal to a higher dimension, appearing at the top of columns, at the ends of arm flux tubes, on hand portal symbols, and in other typical portal locations.