Earlier this morning, I wrote about the Japanese symbol of the seed of life & its relation to the spiral patterns throughout life.  Here's a little more.

The image on the left is a sketch of the Japanese seed of life taken from the encyclopedic Symbols by Carl Liungman (most of which is also viewable online at symbols.com).  Next to it is another image that further illustrates the power of the spiral archetype.  If you don't recognize what it is, click it! 

EXTRA:  In one of those weird coincidences that Aquinas would no doubt say is the sixth proof for the existence of God, I found the image of Superman linked above on a Japanese blog--http://blog.yam.com/momoshu/, where I found myself diabolically hypnotized by the singing dogs featured on February 10, 2006.