painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
exactly... 'true' old medicine wheels were made by nations that would never had met a Dolphin...
Now if you were talking about a spiritual practice more tied with a coastal nation... Northwest Coast, Alaskan and North East coastal tribes held whales to be very sacred. But they didn't do the Medicine wheel thing either... they had thier own traditions.
The pan-indian movement is natrually making the medicine wheel a universal thing, but when you get into what it means and tradition you need to remember that this is a Plains Nations tradition... Alberta and Saskatchawan Canada and South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana USA specifically.
They are also all built differently, most likely they had specific medicine tied into thier construction. Special meaning in the arrangement of spokes and hubs and wheels.
They certenly wern't all the pretty perfect ring of stones you see in most publications. Numbers of stones and patterns varied quite a lot.
This is why I'm always leery of any written list that clames to tell you the meaning of a First Nations spiritual idea... You cant do that with our religion...it doesn't work.
You only end up with something not quite right, hollow, our faith is too alive to be written down and made into still words on paper.:jiggy:
wa:do
Now if you were talking about a spiritual practice more tied with a coastal nation... Northwest Coast, Alaskan and North East coastal tribes held whales to be very sacred. But they didn't do the Medicine wheel thing either... they had thier own traditions.
The pan-indian movement is natrually making the medicine wheel a universal thing, but when you get into what it means and tradition you need to remember that this is a Plains Nations tradition... Alberta and Saskatchawan Canada and South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana USA specifically.
They are also all built differently, most likely they had specific medicine tied into thier construction. Special meaning in the arrangement of spokes and hubs and wheels.
They certenly wern't all the pretty perfect ring of stones you see in most publications. Numbers of stones and patterns varied quite a lot.
This is why I'm always leery of any written list that clames to tell you the meaning of a First Nations spiritual idea... You cant do that with our religion...it doesn't work.
You only end up with something not quite right, hollow, our faith is too alive to be written down and made into still words on paper.:jiggy:
wa:do