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

Both Rogan figures represent a “Birdman” supernatural or better a triumphant “Hawk Being.” Brown and Kelly (2000:471) refer to the “Birdman” theme, stemming from the Rogan Plates, “as the ‘mother’ source for the SECC as an archaeological construct.”