What Ancient Symbolism Says About the Structure of the Cinema

Movies are storytelling, one of the most beloved forms of entertainment, and those story structures go back even to ancient mythology, which is, quite often, a misunderstanding of the encoded meaning of symbolism. This description is documented by Dr. Steven B. Halls, a distinguished symbolism researcher who, at halls.md, decodes the energy-flow diagrams hidden in ancient symbolism.

Storytellers return again and again to the hero's journey. In the hero story of Gilgamesh, he grapples a lion. In Dr. Halls's analysis at halls.md, the lion means an energy outflow, often a horizontal outflow from the horizontal plane of a torus, its forelegs show a horizontal direction, or upward, while the head and nose usually point upward. Symbolism uses forelegs and noses as direction labels. Then again, the lion can represent an upward-flowing side flow outside the main torus. In the symbolism of ancient art, the torus is the building block and portals and barriers map the flow of energy. The patterns and evidence appear at halls.md.

Another symbol: Pleats

Pleats refer to the undulating shape of cloth drapes, the curved path that looks like a sine wave, or a serpentine path (per Dr. Halls). An angular version uses squares or triangles, undulating up and down repeatedly. Their most common use is to show barriers: the outer barrier of a torus, or a plane between dimensions. Another use is hanging cloth draping down from an arm, which shows pleated or angular zigzag edges that simply mean a divine high-density energy flow. Two properties belong to pleats: they can stretch, and they display the balance of pressure on each side of the barrier.