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

The spider asterism is in the constellation Orion (La Flesche 1975:360), and it is the place where “Old Woman Spider” waits to take “First Man” or his successors on a journey into the Beneath World