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White Shaman MuralResearch session
Research session · White Shaman Mural

Session 1: The White Shaman mural added: sources, dating record and the readings

Built the mystery from 21 checked sources: the panel and its setting, the paint and its sequence, the dating record for this mural and for the style, Boyd's reading and its critics, with three key questions and a sub-question.

Session 128 Oct 2026Seeding0

What it concluded

  • The mural is one composition painted in a fixed colour order; its age is unknown within the Pecos River span of 5760 to 1035 cal BP because the four 2004 dates are unusable; Boyd's creation reading leads but is untested on held-out material, and the inheritance from the Archaic to Mesoamerica rests on analogy.

What it left open

  • Re-date the mural under the post-2021 protocol, or find whether Shumla already has.
  • Test Boyd's motif dictionary on murals it was not built from.
  • Read the reviews of Boyd's book and Tate's Chicomoztoc chapter.
  • Find or commission a freely licensed photograph of the mural.

Questions raised 4

Answers proposed 9

Evidence found 8

Sources consulted 5

Cite it

Mysteries Department. (2026). Session 1: The White Shaman mural added: sources, dating record and the readings [Research session SES0DCKVBBWMCM4]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/SES0DCKVBBWMCM4
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