04081cam a2200469 4500 759776690 TxAuBib 20210603120000.0 160126s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016003032 9781477310304 hbk. : alk. paper $65.00 1477310304 hbk. : alk. paper $65.00 (OCoLC)964298285 PUL eng rda PUL YDX OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO NMS OCL DDO TxGR TxAuBib Z UA380.8 B692wh txdocs Boyd, Carolyn E., 1958-, author. The White Shaman mural [Book] : an enduring creation narrative in the rock art of the Lower Pecos / Carolyn E. Boyd ; with contributions by Kim Cox. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016. xiv, 203 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm + 1 folded leaf of plates. Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies Linda Schele series in Maya and Pre-Columbian studies, The Folded plate (1 leaf, 39 x 61 cm, folded to 19 x 16 cm) in pocket. Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-192) and index. Archaic codices -- The painted landscape -- Transcribing and reading visual texts -- A primer : abiding themes in Mesoamerican thought -- Pilgrimage to creation : a reading of the White Shaman mural informed by Huichol mythology -- Return to creation : a reading of the White Shaman mural informed by Nahua mythology -- The art of transcendence. "The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that spans some twenty-six feet in length and thirteen feet in height on the wall of a shallow cave overlooking the Pecos River. In The White Shaman Mural, Carolyn E. Boyd takes us on a journey of discovery as she builds a convincing case that the mural tells a story of the birth of the sun and the beginning of time—making it possibly the oldest pictorial creation narrative in North America. Unlike previous scholars who have viewed Pecos rock art as random and indecipherable, Boyd demonstrates that the White Shaman mural was intentionally composed as a visual narrative, using a graphic vocabulary of images to communicate multiple levels of meaning and function. Drawing on twenty-five years of archaeological research and analysis, as well as insights from ethnohistory and art history, Boyd identifies patterns in the imagery that equate, in stunning detail, to the mythologies of Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples, including the ancient Aztec and the present-day Huichol. This paradigm-shifting identification of core Mesoamerican beliefs in the Pecos rock art reveals that a shared ideological universe was already firmly established among foragers living in the Lower Pecos region as long as four thousand years ago."-- Publisher's website. 20210603. Indians of North America Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex) Antiquities. Indians of Mexico Mexico Coahuila (State) Antiquities. Indian art Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.) Petroglyphs Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.) Rock paintings Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex.) Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex) Antiquities. Val Verde County (Tex) Antiquities. Coahuila (Mexico : State) Antiquities. Texas Antiquities. Mexico Antiquities. Cox, Kim, contributor. Linda Schele series in Maya and pre-Columbian studies. The Linda Schele series in Maya and Pre-Columbian studies. RV8