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

The combination of body features and deer head suggests some sort of arch-shaman. Reilly (2004:133, Fig. 18), however, has identified this “Grizzly Man” with the leader of the Giants. How Grizzlyman and the Giants are related remains to be studied.