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 the upper right, where Parker (1949:16) saw the “man in the moon” and Keeler and Verrill (1962:32) discerned the “head of a dead, ray-eyed ‘Viking,’” we also see the possibility of a disembodied head, facing left