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

In Eastern cosmology (Hudson 1976:165; Lankford 1987:83), snakes are associated with the Beneath World, so this theme combines Beneath World symbolism with a reference at least to the centered axis mundi