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

historic Osage iconographic representations of the cosmos—where north is “above” and south is “below,” west is female/night and east is male/day—are mirrored by the orientation of the mound sites at the confluence