Medicine wheel
Medicine wheels are petroforms or circular formations of rocks on the land. Historically, most medicine wheels followed a similar pattern of a central circle or cluster of stones, surrounded by an outer ring of stones, along with spokes radiating from the center out to the surrounding ring.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: monument
- Description: Native American spiritual concept and stone monument type
- Also known as: “medicine wheel”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark.
Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark is a medicine wheel located in the Bighorn National Forest, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Medicine Wheel/Medicine Mountain National Historic Landmark is situated 360 feet west of Medicine wheel.
Medicine wheel
- Category: symbol
- Location: Big Horn County, Wyoming, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Turkish—“Medicine wheel” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Medizinrad”
- Bavarian: “Medizinradl”
- Chinese: “巫轮”
- Chinese: “巫輪”
- Chinese: “魔術環”
- Chinese: “麥迪幸輪”
- Danish: “Medicinhjul”
- French: “Medecine wheel”
- French: “Medicine wheel”
- French: “Roue de médecine”
- French: “Roue médecine”
- German: “Medicine Wheel”
- German: “Medizinrad”
- Hebrew: “גלגל רפואה”
- Hindi: “दवा का पहिया”
- Hungarian: “Orvosságos kerekek”
- Italian: “Ruota di medicina”
- Korean: “치유의 바퀴”
- Panjabi: “ਦਵਾਈ ਚੱਕਰ”
- Polish: “Leczniczy Krąg w Wyomingu”
- Polish: “Medicine Wheel”
- Romanian: “Roata medicamentului”
- Spanish: “Círculo sagrado”
- Spanish: “Rueda medicinal”
- Turkish: “Şifa çarkı”
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