Here's the spiral of time from The American Legion Weekly, 1922.

Here's a cat celebrating the golden spiral, from Prodigiorvm ac Ostentorvm Chronicon, 1557.

There's a longstanding rumor that Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" hails Satan when played backwards.  What could be more natural?  A fall from heaven is the equal and opposite reaction to an ascent to heaven, as we see in this card from a magic deck that the eminent mentalist Kenton Knepper commissioned of us.

Are they Watson and Crick on the double staircase?  From A Handbook of Tamworth, Its Church & Castle by Thomas Cooke, 1876.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "He centered his eye upon us."

You've heard of a "murder of crows" and other fun collective nouns.  But what do you call a collection of elders?

"An infinity of elders." —William Beckford, Vathek