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

It thus appears to be a strong possibility that the Raptor on the Moundville pottery, regardless of its meaning in other places and other contexts, was part of a mortuary symbolic complex, related to the celestial realm and linked conceptually to the