Medicine Wheels, Sun Circles, and The Magic of World Center Shrines

Robert L. Hall

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Explanations of the function of Plains medicine wheels and the Big Horn medicine wheel in particular are compared to known functions of the boulder outline on Chicoma Mountain in New Mexico known as an earth navel or world center. The variant explanations for Plains medicine wheels are shown to be largely non contradictory and consistent with the uses and symbolic associations of “world centers.”

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