The standard
tara glyph type - without extra signs in form of 'toes',
'deformities' etc - evidently stands at winter solstice and means 'point
of return'.
The humpback
whales coming up from the depths of the sea, surfacing for a
moment, then to dive down again, offer a picture of what tara
means - one movement (up) will not continue forever. After a
while the reversed movement (down) will come.
Another picture is
the pendulum, where one movement inevitably will come to a full
stop, then to reverse - a dynamic cyclical pattern.
Or like
sailing in a canoe when there are moments where the movement
must stop in order to tack and continue forward in the opposite
direction.
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