# A planned narrative of creation: the birth of the sun and the beginning of time

> Still possible: The mural is a planned narrative of creation, the birth of the sun and the beginning of time, whose figures correspond in detail to the…

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# A planned narrative of creation: the birth of the sun and the beginning of time

The mural is a planned narrative of creation, the birth of the sun and the beginning of time, whose figures correspond in detail to the myths of Uto-Aztecan peoples such as the Huichol and the Nahua.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Three pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- The mural is one composition, painted in one event with a fixed colour order.
- The same motifs recur, in comparable arrangements, on other Pecos River murals.
- People who hold the later traditions, shown the mural without prompting, identify figures in ways that match the reading.

## What would rule it out

- Microscopy or dating shows the figures were added over a long period by different painters.
- Applied blind to murals not used to build it, the reading finds no more correspondences than it finds in unrelated art.

## Evidence 3 for · 1 against

[Figure-by-figure correspondences with Huichol and Nahua myth](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRFZNSAP8/figure-by-figure-correspondences-with-huichol-and-nahua-myth)

Suggestive

FOR

[Huichol religious specialists read motifs in ways that fit the reading](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRGHS6YR1/huichol-religious-specialists-read-motifs-in-ways-that-fit)

Suggestive

FOR

[The panel is one planned composition, as a narrative needs](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRFJ5A9V4/the-panel-is-one-planned-composition-as-a-narrative-needs)

Supported

FOR

[The analogy spans thousands of years and draws on selected sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKRH59XYX4/the-analogy-spans-thousands-of-years-and-draws-on-selected)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What does the White Shaman mural depict?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPKDCPP15/what-does-the-white-shaman-mural-depict)

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Mysteries Department. (2026). A planned narrative of creation: the birth of the sun and the beginning of time [Answer ANS0DCKQ96HTJN3]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DCKQ96HTJN3
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