The first Stone of the Sun Bear
Medicine Wheel is in honor of Creator, represents Creator, is Creator in the Wheel.
In the Wheel building cermony this Stone is placed first, with prayer and song, and
in the very center of the space you have marked out for the Wheel.
Since Creator is all things, there is no particular totem or mineral for this position.
The item for Creator does not need to be a Stone. Wheels have been built around
an object sacred to the group, for example, a Bear skull; or a sacred Fire, Tree, or
cluster of crystals.
I want to share this quotation from page 25 of Dancing With The Wheel
by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind, and Crysalis Mulligan: "The Creator is the beginning of
life and its ending, the Great Mystery within all things and around all things, the
Universal Energy"............"In many Native languages the word for Creator.........
"was a verb, indicating the movement, the activity, the motion, the pulsation of
this sacred, never-ending force."
There are Seven Stones in the Center Circle
around Creator. They are for Father Sun, Mother Earth, Grandmother Moon, Fire
(Thunderbird), Earth (Turtle), Air (Butterfly), Water (Frog).