LEGEND: The dot encircled solar disk, one solar genre, is found as early in history as c. 6000 BC on a dainty- featured goddess of Catal Huyuk as an abdominal embellishment [1]. It has occurred worldwide from places as far-flung as New Zealand [5] to Utah [4]. Perhaps as close as one can get to a meaning, sure not to be generalized, is its appearance as sacred Celtric geometry (encircled dot) where the outer circle encompassing all represented God while the dot stood in for the individual. In Egypt, as the Udjat [19], it represented the sun but as the eye that saw all and in this sense identical in role to the use Far North shamen to see into the nether world. In group I, Prehistoric Solar Petrographs [1-5], of interest are the solar-headed figures of Kyrgzstan [2] and Ontario [3]. In group II, Sculpted Solar Human Figures [6-11], the seated goddess from Turkmenia and 4300 BC bears multiple solar signs on her thighs [7]. Bes, perhaps the earliest sun god, holds these signs on his chest and arms [8]. [11] finds an encircled dot on either cheek of a Medieval Ghananian. In group III, Solar Motifs on Artefacts [12-16], of note is the 6000 BC potsherd from Mesopotamia [12] and from 100 BC, a walrus ivory pendant of Siberia Chukotka Ekven shaman with solar sign on lower right cheek [13]. A Celtic comb from Romania of 300 BC [16] is intriguing. Group IV, Solar Signs as Symbols of State [17-20], holds a double sun eye-level motif of Asarhaddon at Nineveh, 600 BC [17] and the Ur Nammu stele of Ur III, 2100 BC [18]. Never far from the Egyptian mind is the sacred bull and here we see Hathor wearing the headpiece with the sun between bulls horns of the 18th Dynasty [20]. In group V, Solar Sign on Human Being [21-24], are those motifs found painted on the cheek of a Kenyan Masai [21], a Somali [22], an Indian [23] and Indonesian [24].

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