![]() In later times, the spiral in the Kongo religion represented man’s celestial origin and universal salvation. Since spirals are a common symbol found in trances states, its absence may tell us something about humans achieving these states. Canadian anthropologist, Genevieve von Petzinger, found that the use of the spiral is not found regularly in Europe until after the Upper Paleolithic. It may have also been a calendrical device to divide the year into seasons and solstices. ![]() Others think it could represent life itself or eternity. Some think it may have signified the sun or a way to reach the spirit world. So, what does the spiral symbol mean? We can only guess what the spiral in prehistoric art represented. They are also found at the 2,000-year-old Serpent Mound in Ohio and on a 18,000-year-old mammoth ivory piece, discovered in Siberia. Single spiral symbols have been found in Stone-Age Europe, the Near East, pre-dynastic Egypt, as well as in Peru, China, and Polynesian societies. At an Irish site called Brú na Bóinne, occupied over 6,000 years ago, the spiral symbols are a dominant feature. Spirals have been found painted and engraved on cave walls of Upper Paleolithic times and on standing stones of the Neolithic. I didn’t know what they meant, but after doing some research on the subject, I have found that spirals are an ancient symbol used for thousands of years in every part of the world. ![]() I never talked to anyone about it at the time, but that experience may explain my obsession with drawing spiral symbols as a child. The doctors revived me, but not before I had a near death experience. When I was a young girl, I died on the operating table while having my tonsils removed.
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