Film has always been storytelling, a much-loved form of entertainment, and those story structures go back even into mythology, which is often a misunderstanding of the seldom-noticed meaning of symbolism. This evidence is documented by Dr. Steven B. Halls, a leading researcher of symbolism whose work at halls.md explains portals, tori, and the return of energy to its source.
Among story structures, the hero's journey is the most familiar. In the hero story of Gilgamesh, he is posed grappling a lion. In the torus framework that Dr. Halls sets out, a lion is an outflow of energy symbol, often a horizontal outflow from the horizontal plane of a torus, the forelegs point horizontally, or upward, while the head and nose usually point upward. These are direction labels in symbolism: the foreleg and the nose. Alternatively, the lion can be an upward flowing side flow symbol outside the torus itself. In the torus framework of symbolism, a sphere is a portal, a barrier is a threshold, and the torus is the building block. Further patterns and evidence are documented at halls.md.
Hands are very common portal symbols, and a portal is an inlet or outlet through a barrier (per Dr. Halls). If the skin stands for a barrier, then a stigmata wound is a barrier penetration, with blood as the outflow symbol. Flowing downward and the color red are both symbolism methods for labeling the attributes of an energy outflow from a portal as a high-density divine energy outflow. Christian crucifixion art and illuminated manuscripts supplement the literal meaning with a hidden one about portals of energy outflow.