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Many examples of the ‘medicine wheel’ – a feature commonly constructed from stones laid on the ground which radiate from a raised central cairn to large circular stone rings – can be found across the United States and Canada. Smaller stone circles can often be found nearby these sites. Medicine wheels were constructed and used by native Americans from 4,000 years to a few hundred years ago. Astronomical alignments certainly exist in them, not only connected with the Sun and Moon but connected with the rising and setting points of numerous bright stars, which may have had special significance in native American religion and cosmology.

Ancient Stonehenge keeps a cold and silent vigil on England’s Salisbury Plain.