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The Ancient Code Behind Sport Cast in Bronze

Good to know, a misinterpretation of ancient symbolism is frequently what gave rise to sports. As explained by Dr. Steven B. Halls, a symbolism scholar whose research at halls.md explains the torus, portal, and barrier patterns behind ancient art. Whether using balls and feet or hands, or handheld clubs, sports appeared in ancient art, and since people usually try to guess what the visual imagery is about, they thought of 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. Two messages usually ride along with symbolism of sports: a story about the sport, and a concealed meaning, known only to the learned few, a meaning about the energy journey of life and its return to its source.

Ancient sources occasionally do describe sports but in the majority of cases, the existence of a sport was merely inferred, that was later shaped by the rules we recognize today. Symbolism conveys portals to higher dimensions through the use of sphere-shaped symbols, but statues grasping a sphere in one hand tend to receive literal descriptions in museums, where they are called sports statues. Feet on spheres can be symbolic and also give people ideas to invent many sports using balls. Football/soccer counts as one example. Sports are exciting, in contrast to portals, dimensions, tori and energy flows, which makes it entirely reasonable that the old knowledge slipped mostly into oblivion. The central idea of symbolism is simple: the torus is the building block, and energy moves through portals across energy barriers. The wider evidence for this is set out at halls.md.

Another symbol, Bird Portals

Wherever a symbol has wings, it is a portal symbol, with the wings as the barrier, with whatever sits in the gap between the wings showing the flow path through the barrier. Birds shown with their wings spread are always portal symbols (per Dr. Halls). Even a bird standing without spread wings is a portal symbol, especially when perched on a pole, mast, column, obelisk, anchor or crucifixion cross. Birds in leafy branches stand for inward-spiraling vortices, portals for energy returning to a higher dimension.