Heart of the hoop

center and relational balance

The heart is used here as the centre of the medicine-wheel body because Lakota accounts place relational life and sacred vision within the hoop. The coordinate is an interpretive front-view projection, not a claim that the tradition defines a biomedical heart map.

Heart of the hoopHeart of the hoop

Point 1 of 1 in Lakota Medicine Wheel Body

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Black Elk Speaks, as told to John G. Neihardt (primary)

Mediated first-person account of Lakota sacred visions and the sacred hoop; not a technical anatomical chart.

Vine Deloria Jr., God Is Red (scholarly_modern)

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