Its a strange thing but I see coincidences in things from places that historically are so distant as to make you wonder how people thought of them independently?
Take the medicine wheel for instance, I wonder why it also occurs as a Celtic symbol when it is at least 3 thousand miles from America and used in Britain at a time when travel between those countries was not thought possible?
The Medicine wheel
The Celtic wheel
And then we see the American Indian Bull Boat made from Willow strips and Buffalo hide in North America, the same as the Coracle, found in Celtic lands like Wales and Ireland and in Britain, made from the same materials, Willow and hide, thousands of years ago and still today. And the Coracle also appears in India of much the same design.
A Celtic Coracle below
The American Indian Bull Boat
The Indian version of the Coracle below
Taking interconnectedness further, the Hindus in India used the Swastika emblem as a sign for good luck, which also appears in ancient North American Indian use. So again, I wonder how the same idea was arrived at?
The Sanskrit version of the Medicine Wheel perhaps? Very much like the Celtic version below, although thousands of miles apart!
The Celtic swastika design of the serpents eating each other's tails, I thought I had read that the Medicine wheel was 4 serpents or snakes that did the same thing?
It is related to the medicine wheel as that is a circular motion of repeating events, in the Sanskrit version, it follows a course of revolution much as the American Indian medicine wheel follows the same pattern. Everything is circular, night, day, seasons, planetary orbits.
Navajo Thunderbird Brooch with Swastika symbols
This Navajo brooch features the symbol of the Thunderbird and the Swastika symbol, which conveniently drops us into the picture of the US Army 45th Infantry Division patch which was changed to the Thunderbird from the Swastika, see the picture. The 45th was known as the Thunderbird Division as a result. The Swastika being dropped as the 45th Infantry badge in WW2 due to the appropriation by the Third Reich.
The US 45th Infantry Division Thunderbird patch and the previously used Swastika patch
Thunderbird Crop circle in Wiltshire, England near to the Stonehenge monument
Our old favourite phenomena the Crop Circle, mostly found in British Wheat fields does not disappoint us, as we have a Thunderbird design in the wheat about 300 plus feet across and a Celtic Wheel design, like a Medicine wheel which have been found. These are enormous pieces of art which are so perfect, to do these at night without being seen or getting them wrong is near impossible.
So, we have a boat and symbols from three different cultures thousands of miles apart which all seem to coincide. I wonder how these things can coincide, whether they were gifts of knowledge to the peoples or just as a result of chance that three things got designed by different peoples thousands of miles apart? Maybe we will find out in time.
So in the end we find everything is circular...
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