Todays tidbit Medicine Wheel It’s one of the best-known archaeological sites in America. It’s origins are often debated, but it’s somewhat mysterious existence is so much a part of its charm, and fascination. Medicine Wheel is perched on the western peak of Medicine Mountain, at 9,600 feet in elevation, east of Lovell, in north-central Wyoming. This natural plateau serves as the landscape for Medicine Wheel, a stone wheel, some 75-feet in diameter, with 28 different rock spokes that branch-out from a central point. Medicine Wheel is one of the largest and most significant Native American spiritual locales on the North American continent. It’s thought that many have used the area around Medicine Wheel for over 7,000 years, believed to be a sacred area to make spiritual “vision quests”, and to worship. The area here was also a popular hunting spot for medicinal plants. The great Shoshone Chief Washakie is said to have gained his “medicine” here at Medicine Wheel. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce fasted here. And even today, Medicine Wheel is considered a Native American sacred site, where several annual ceremonies still take place.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:37:15 +0000