 When the Wizard is ritually painting Conan to try to save his life,  all symbols and runes are black, except for a certain symbol, shown  once in the hands and a few times in his face, which is red. Such  symbol, a small man whose arms join over his head in a semicircle,  is called "Indalo", and is a very common symbol in the region of  Almeria (Spain), in whiich most of the movie was shot.