First of all I would like to thank Steven and Evan Strong for their world leading research in the field of sacred rocks.
If it wasn’t for their research I wouldn’t have come across this information which I am sure our North American friends will find interesting.
Keeping Sacred Rocks in formation is something in common to Original People’s not just in Australia, but also around the world, below is an excerpt from the freeman.pdf linked below.
From archaeological dating of cultural artifacts it is known that during at least the last 5000 years humans on the North American Plains have arranged rocks into many patterns on the ground, and carved symbols into a few rocks. During the last 100 years European immigrants moved most of the rocks from patterns into piles and plowed the land, but some rock patterns remain on unplowed land. We struggle to preserve them.
Glyphed quartzite boulders have been found on eight hilltops in southeastern Alberta. The styles of the glyphs indicate ages from about 5000 to 2000 years, with cup-and-groove the oldest. Six of the hilltops held a single quartzite with glyphs, and two hilltops each held a pair. The boulders weigh from about 60 to 400kg. Each pair consisted of a large and a small quartzite.
All of the carved quartzites except one pair have been removed from their original places, some to museums. Indians still leave offerings at the sole remaining pair (Figure 1). The main offerings I have seen during the last three decades have been incenses: tobacco, sweetgrass (Hierochloe odorata) and longleaf sage (Artemisia longifolia). Incense is something that is burned to produce a purifying, fragrant white smoke, and has been used in religious purification ceremonies around the world for many thousands of years. Other offerings I have seen at the glyphed quartzite pair are food (berries, candy, fish), money, cloth (substitute for skin, Figure 2), crow and raptor feathers, and rarely an old stone tool such as a hide scraper or knife, or a rifle bullet (a modern arrow). These and the other glyphed quartzites are Sacred Rocks, either Altars or Effigies. White men tend to refer to other people’s religions as “magic,” or “superstition”, and that is how the intrusive Whiteman Government’s sign refers to this sacred place.