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The map depicts the four levels of the Upper World surmounted by an avian figure, identified as Wah’-Kon-Tah E-Shinkah or E-Shinka-Wakon. His name has also been recorded as Hon-ga A-hui-ton, an epithet that Francis La Flesche records as meaning “the Little Holy One”
Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
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