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

Given that the Rattlesnake Disk portal encircles the hand-and-eye motif, a known celestial marker (Lankford 2007a), while the Kersey site beaker bears a rattlesnake-framed portal through which the swirl-cross motif emerges, we have a thematically