# Yes: the oldest surviving expression of a core Mesoamerican cosmovision

> Still possible: Pecos River murals, the White Shaman mural among them, are the oldest surviving expression of a core cosmovision that later informed the…

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# Yes: the oldest surviving expression of a core Mesoamerican cosmovision

Pecos River murals, the White Shaman mural among them, are the oldest surviving expression of a core cosmovision that later informed the beliefs of Mesoamerican peoples such as the Aztec and the Huichol.

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

## Where it stands

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

## What it predicts

- Specific motif sets in the murals, not only general themes, recur in later Mesoamerican imagery and myth.
- Intermediate material between the Lower Pecos and Mexico carries the same specific motifs.

## What would rule it out

- The claimed correspondences prove no more specific than those found by applying the same method to unrelated hunter-gatherer art.
- The specific motifs are shown to enter Mesoamerican imagery only long after Pecos River painting ended, from another source.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[Detailed correspondences with Aztec and Huichol cosmology](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS213JQNV/detailed-correspondences-with-aztec-and-huichol-cosmology)

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FOR

[Four thousand years of stable rules and motifs in Pecos River painting](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS1JKQQHY/four-thousand-years-of-stable-rules-and-motifs-in-pecos)

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FOR

[No archaeological trace of Mesoamerica in the Pecos area, and a stylistic gap](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS2CZCXX1/no-archaeological-trace-of-mesoamerica-in-the-pecos-area-and)

Suggestive

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Does the mural express beliefs that later Mesoamerican peoples inherited from the Archaic Lower Pecos?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPM8HGXYZ/does-the-mural-express-beliefs-that-later-mesoamerican)

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