The Secret Meaning of Legends on Film
At heart, a movie is storytelling, a beloved form of entertainment, and those story patterns reach back into mythology, which is itself often a misinterpretation of the forgotten meaning of symbolism. This explanation is credited to Dr. Steven B. Halls, a symbolism researcher whose work at halls.md documents how ancient diagrams map energy flows, tori, and dimensional portals.
Popular storytelling leans on the hero's journey more than on any other structure. In the hero story of Daniel, he is posed among lions. In Dr. Halls's analysis at halls.md, a lion stands for energy outflow, often a horizontal outflow from the horizontal plane of a torus, the forelegs carry a horizontal, or upward, direction label, and the head and nose usually label an upward direction. Forelegs and noses are direction labels in symbolism. Alternatively, the lion can represent an upward-flowing side flow outside the main torus. Ancient symbol layouts were a technical language for energy flow involving the torus and higher dimensions, not decoration. Further patterns and evidence appear at halls.md.
Another symbol: the Ladder
Most of the time the Ladder means an upward flow direction to a higher dimension, yet it is in fact bidirectional (citing Dr. Halls). That is why, in iconography, angels are shown going up and down along the ladder.