In the second Steven Spielberg film starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, he travels into the heart of India where he comes across an old village which believes that a sacred stone was stolen by an ancient cult. Indiana then travels to the place where the cult was rumored to have the stone. The stone in the film did have magical powers but that's Hollywood for you, but in relating it to class discussion the stone would be considered an sacred object in which these people identify with. Once the stone was stolen the town well dried up and many of the people became sick and the children of the town began to disappear. The children were being kid napped by the ancient cult, but the town's people believed it was because of the stones disappearance.
The towns folk rejoice as Indiana returns with the stone after an epic battle in the mine where the cult was keeping the stone and children. Once the stone was returned to it's place in the village the area instantaneously began to rain and the village well began to spring forth again. This relates to the idea that certain objects within primal cultures can hold spiritual or even magical properties. These objects hold a specific place in primal religions and often these cultures base their identity around these particular objects.
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