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medicine wheel

noun

  1. a Native American ceremonial tool representing a sacred circle

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The outermost, 11th circuit of the 36-foot-diameter circle evokes the four cardinal directions along the lines of a Native American medicine wheel, set with 12 colors of stones, and the 10th circuit contains 108 stones arranged like Tibetan prayer beads.

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Yet, the four classical elements are one of civilization’s great unifiers, a cosmological theory shared by the Hindu Vedas, the Buddhist Mahabhuta, the Kongo cosmogram, the Indigenous medicine wheel and the zodiac.

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Her classmates stood around her at a prayer circle designed with archetypes of Native American spirituality, with a circular sidewalk representing a traditional medicine wheel.

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Her classmates stood around her at a prayer circle designed with archetypes of Native American spirituality, with a circular sidewalk representing a traditional medicine wheel, crossed by sidewalks pointing to the four cardinal directions.

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A bit to the northeast is another hidden gem: the Bighorn Medicine Wheel.

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