this is all a version of the “they’re brown/black/yellow so they must be SSSOOOOOO much more spiritual than us” that appears in television fiction. Usually candles are involved and ceremonies performed before the astonished eyes of the godless white characters.
and, yes, i’m talking sg1 and sg atlantis here!
Reminds me of something I saw with my own eyes when I was in Peru a few years ago. We made the obligatory turista trip to Macchu Picchu since my wife had never seen it before. While we were there, I noticed a guide pointing to a big puddle of water on a landing above a long flight of steps. He was explaining to a couple of gullible-looking yuppies that this was a sacred reflecting pool incorporated by the magically talented architects. The yuppies were lapping it up (the description, not the puddle). The yuppies left, we stayed around for a while and soon saw a maintenance guy come along and mop up the “sacred pool.”
Peru is one of my favorite countries in the world but the place is absolutely infested with new age flakes from Europe and the US who come there to encounter magnetic nodes and harmonic convergences and the like. The locals laugh at them behind their backs.