A basic element in Western ideography, the clockwise spiral (starting from the middle) is strongly associated with water, power, independent movement, and migrations of tribes. The sign's association with water may rather focus recurring rainy seasons, than water in general.     Well in accordance with the law of the polarity of meanings of elementary graphs also often seems to denote the sun. But maybe not the ordinary sun, but the eclipsed sun. See the entry  below.     As stated in the entry of  the basic graphic elements the dot and the spiral were used by man already 24,000 years ago. But thereafter the first instances of  are found carved in rock faces not more than about 5,000 years ago. In Part III there is a section about this apparent gap in human ideography.     Be that as it may, one finds  on discos from Crete from around 2000 B.C., and in the variation  as an old symbol for potential power in Tibet. It also appears among rock carvings in Utah.