Coming Up A Whale's Throat = Sculptured Metaphor For Coming Up Something Very Large ! Could it be related to martians living underground from large areas such as cities! Not sure exactly, but it does seem to show odd type of bodies combing up along the path of a throat or esophagus of a whale etc. I see a lot of "slanted" type lines and I really think martians use these as sculptured metaphors to mean certain key things in their sculptures!