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

What has been removed from the Cox Mound design is the looped square, which I identify as the symbol for the earth-island. The Spiro gorget is thus a reduction of the full cosmological design but not necessarily an alteration of its meaning.