Each category of symbolic motifs forms a subset within the iconography of the cult of the Virgin Mary. Although all essentially represent the Virgin Mary, each possesses a slightly different ideological function within the overall cult and logically stimulates the recollection of particular narratives or events. The groupings that Schatte identifies, however, may also suggest the presence of an individual workshop or taller at Moundville, wherein a master ceramic artist supervised others who were producing winged serpent imagery.
