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

more likely scenario is that Moundville and the LMV culture shared a broad ideological system that was reflected in the templates used visually to manifest those things from the watery Beneath World that ordinarily could not be seen.