Indian Medicine Wheels and Other Ancient Observatories

Evidence of Early Curiositysetting of the sun at the summer and winter solstices.
Stonehenge in England is a circle of stones we knowMayan and Aztec
must have been some sort of observatory. It is clearThese people did not only record the movement of
that they used the stones to align them with heavenlythe sun and moon but clear indications are that they
movement. The solar and lunar alignments can bealso indicated the extreme points where Venus rose
seen at Stonehenge. Since they had no writtenand set. The morning and evening star and its extreme
language we will never know the real detail of thepoints can still be seen in the top of the circular tower
sophisticated stone setup.in the Caracol temple in the Yucatan. Some temples in
The Big Horn Medicine Wheel - North Americathe jungles were definitely more than temples.
On the shoulder of the Big Horn Mountains ofUncovering the remains of these ancient observatories
Wyoming we find a 28 spoke wheel nearly 27m inare always exciting. Though we will only have partial
diameter. We also know this was used by the Plainknowledge of what they were used for, we know
Indians around 1500 AD. As with Stonehenge, the sightthey were built by intelligent people.
lines towards the horizon tell us these piles of rocksThe lack of written evidence is sad as we may never
could have been a calendar to schedule life. Hunting,know the ideas and thoughts behind the building of
harvesting and celebrations. Many other sites exist butthese monuments. Dozens of artifacts were
this Medicine Wheel appears to be very sophisticateddestroyed as they were seen as the work of the
in design. Indian ruins at Chaco Canyon, New Mexicodevil. The missionaries that spread religion also did a lot
have clear alignments pointing towards the rising andto destroy the history of ancient cultures.