Cosmic Order and Change in Pre-columbian Eastern North America

Part of the Cosmology in the New World project

Author(s): Timothy Pauketat; Christopher Carr; Robert Hall; George Lankford

Year: 2006

Summary

The authors attempt to understand pan-continental cultural relationships as well as explain how cosmologies developed through time in the eastern Woodlands and Great Plains of North America. To do this, the authors deal with both the overall traditions of entire populations or time periods and specific, local expressions of these overall traditions.

Cite this Record

Cosmic Order and Change in Pre-columbian Eastern North America. Timothy Pauketat, Christopher Carr, Robert Hall, George Lankford. 2006 ( tDAR id: 4794) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8BC3WQZ

Keywords

Culture
Aztec • Hopewell • Mississippian

Site Name
Cahokia • Poverty Point • Serpent Mound • Spiro

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

General
above world • ancestral temples • animism • Antares • Aztec Sun Stone • below world • Birger figurine • cat serpent • cat-snake monster • center pole • circle • color dualism • Corn Mother • cross-in-circle • death • Dualism • earth diver myth • Evening Star • four direction • four winds • Great Spirit • hawk • hero twins • He-Who-Gets-Hit-With-Deer-Lungs • horned serpent • life • Mars • middle world • Milky Way • Morning Star • old woman that never dies • Orion • otherworld • our grandmother • Path of Souls • Pawnee • pole • quadri-partitioned cosmos • Ramey Incised • sacred tree • shaman • shell gorgets • square • Stoney Sky Vault • three realms • thunderers • Tirawa Atius • translocation • Venus • war • winged serpent Show More

Geographic Keywords
Central Mexico • US Eastern Woodlands • US Great Plains

Temporal Keywords
Historic Period • Mississippian period • Woodland Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -103.711; min lat: 29.075 ; max long: -75.586; max lat: 44.965 ;

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