Those umbrella/pinecone things

[nablator]

What do you think? I kind of flashed through this post and noticed the trend going in this direction, too, at least to the mountain id.  Which is what it is, a special kind of mountain.

These folios are clearly about water flow, but starting from where? It could be mountains and volcanoes, but I have a problem with the rows of inverted hills/knobs in the "pine-cone" pattern, and the surrounding cloud-bands.

The undulating cloud-band pattern is as standard as can be, it always symbolizes the (element) air, then what air separates from, above, is clear enough in my opinion: clouds (the "pine-cone") and rain (the "umbrella") .

Rain-clouds do not usually look like regular rows of inverted hills/knobs, only mamatocumulus do but you have to allow for symbols not depicting exactly what they represent. The "pine-cone" pattern is similar to naive drawings of waves on the sea, albeit inverted.

   

Rain falls in all directions around you (hence the radial "umbrella" pattern) when you look at the zenith. The folios describe water flow, starting from rain-clouds in my opinion.