Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

by George E. Lankford

Lankford (2007a) persuasively argues that this theme at Moundville represents the “Great Serpent” in its celestial form, which Native peoples of the Eastern Woodlands associated with the constellation Scorpius.