Volgens Atlas Obscura
First of all, it’s important to note that the Indian Burial Ground,
which is sometimes abbreviated to IBG, is a trope, and not a real
thing. Pre-Columbian peoples identified as hundreds of totally
different communities, families, or nations, without very many
similarities between them. That extended to the burying and treatment
of the dead; in some arctic communities, the dead were simply left on
the ice to be eaten by predators (what else are you going to do up
there?), whereas other groups practiced more familiar burial forms
ranging from mass graves to careful and solemn burials to burials
performed quickly and with great fear of the corpse. The IBG concept
is wrong right from the get-go; depending on how you look at it,
there’s either no such thing or an unending variety of them.
(Zie ook TV Tropes '-pagina over het onderwerp .)
Het enige dat ik heb gevonden dat enigszins lijkt op de afbeeldingen in deze films is het Medicine Wheel / Medicine Mountain National Historisch monument, voorheen bekend als het "Bighorn Medicine Wheel" :
The stones are arranged in the shape of a wheel, 80 feet across and
with 28 spokes emanating from a central cairn. The cairn, a
ring-shaped pile of rocks, is large enough to sit in and is surrounded
by six others that lie along the wheel’s circumference. Oddly enough,
this configuration is not unique to Wyoming. Rather, hundreds of
similar stone wheels exist throughout North America.
Known as medicine wheels, or sacred hoops, these special structures
have been built by American Indians for centuries. With uses ranging
from the ritual to the astronomical, the medicine wheel has been
appropriated over time by New Age spiritualists, Wiccans, and Pagans.
Zie ook Wikipedia: link
