Big Horn Medicine Wheel (the birth and death of humanity) and its successor the Aztec calendar stone

The story behind the Big Horn Medicine Wheel of Northern Wyoming. Why was it built? What was it for? What- does it have to do with The Aztec Calendar Stone? (The Spanish kept it buried for centuries.) CONTENTS: PART I: THE MEDICINE WHEEL CONFIGURATION The Aztec-Tanoans Design of the Medicine Wheel The Central "Hub" Cairn The Wheel's Rim The Wheel's Four External Rim-Touching Cairns The Fifth, Internally Touching Rim Cairn Why the Number Five? The Non-Touching Rim Cairn "D" The Medicine Wheel's Spokes The Eternal Day-Night Warfare The Zenith vs. The Nadir The Offset S57°W External Cairn Remote Big Horn Basin Arrows Cosmology vs. Religion PART II: REINTERPRETING THE AZTEC CALENDAR STONE IN TERMS OF THE BIG HORN MEDICINE WHEEL HERITAGE The Thought-World of Uto-Aztecan Speech Archaeolinguistics and its Symbolizations Added Extraneous Elements False Interpretations of the Calendar Stone Aztec Fundamentalism The Fundamentalist Clan in Aztec Society Abortive "Translations" of the Aztec Calendar Stone Component Parts of the Stone's Design Conclusion Summary Appendix I Appendix II ILLUSTRATIONS Big Horn Medicine Wheel (USFS, 1975), photo 1975 Helicopter View, USFS photo (retouched) Bighorn Canyon (Map) Carter Mountain Stone Arrow (Photo) Topographic Map, Medicine Wheel Quadrangle Medicine Rim and Five Springs Basin Trail (Photo) Medicine Wheel, 1931, Looking Northwest (Photo) Medicine Wheel, 1931, Looking West (Photo) Stockwell Survey Map, 1917 (Schematic) Schematic of the Big Horn Medicine Wheel Aztec Calendar Stone (Photo) Schematic of the Aztec Calendar Stone