Those circles in the ground show you how many mudokons you need to acomplish a particular task. you can see those in many screenshots, just pay attention and you will find them. For example ,to pull a lever, you need only a mud, so there is a circle close to the lever.
In that particular screenshot, there are 8 circles in the ground, and you have 8 mudokons along with Abe, and they seem to be walking to their own positions, probably to chant or something like that.
Here you can see a semi-circle in the ground showing where Munch has to stand to open the fuzzles cages. There is a symbol in the ground for each cage.
Here is a view of the rainmaker with some circles in the ground around it, showing again how many muds you need to make it work. There is an empty circle, but a mud is running to fill it...
Here you can see a couple of vending machines, with those symbols around them again.
Here you see a big gate with two circles in the ground just behind the meditating muds, maybe you need to ask them to open the gate.
Anyway, the possessed slig shooting everybody in those new screenshots from Oddworldian seems to be having a lot of fun!
[ September 19, 2001: Message edited by: Lampion ]