# Boyd 2016: The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos > Carolyn E. Boyd, Kim Cox, 2016. 11 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Boyd's reading and the paint-sequence study. Source: https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DCKGBQZHPQM/the-white-shaman-mural-an-enduring-creation-narrative-in-the Publisher: Mysteries Department Licence: CC BY 4.0 (credit Mysteries Department and link the page) --- [Sources](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources)[White Shaman Mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural)Boyd 2016 **0** # The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Carolyn E. Boyd, Kim Cox, 2016. _University of Texas Press, Austin_. Monograph on the mural, about 26 feet long and 13 feet high: the microscopy of its paint layers, which shows one planned composition, and a reading of it as a narrative of the birth of the sun and the beginning of time, built from Huichol (chapter 5) and Nahua (chapter 6) myth and ritual. Holds that a shared ideology was established in the Lower Pecos as long as four thousand years ago. **White Shaman MuralSecondary source** BookCopy of **[The White Shaman mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/artifacts/ART0DCKP3TBH489/the-white-shaman-mural)** doi: **[10.7560/310304](https://doi.org/10.7560/310304)** Checked against the original0 ## What it's used for here Boyd's reading and the paint-sequence study. ## Cited by on this site 11 records [The White Shaman mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/artifacts/ART0DCKP3TBH489/the-white-shaman-mural) ART [The White Shaman mural: Boyd's digital illustration (2016)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/copies/CPY0DCKP8NATY0V/the-white-shaman-mural-boyds-digital-illustration-2016) CPY [Detailed correspondences with Aztec and Huichol cosmology](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKS213JQNV/detailed-correspondences-with-aztec-and-huichol-cosmology) Evidence EVD [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) Evidence EVD [Microscopy shows one colour order across the panel, black first and white last](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/evidence/EVD0DCKR5RNGYY1/microscopy-shows-one-colour-order-across-the-panel-black) Evidence EVD [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) Evidence EVD [Boyd publishes The White Shaman Mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/events/EVT0DCKNGBJJN67/boyd-publishes-the-white-shaman-mural) EVT [Carolyn E. Boyd](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/people/FIG0DCKKXTT13A0/carolyn-e-boyd) FIG [Kim Cox](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/people/FIG0DCKKY4VMCNM/kim-cox) FIG [The White Shaman Mural](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural) The mystery article MYS [What does the White Shaman mural depict?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/white-shaman-mural/questions/QST0DCKPKDCPP15/what-does-the-white-shaman-mural-depict) Question QST ## Cite it ``` Boyd, C. E., & Cox, K. (2016). The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos. University of Texas Press, Austin. https://doi.org/10.7560/310304 ``` [Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.7560/310304) Key **SRC** 0DCKGBQZHPQM Kind Book Rights The publisher's Kept 28 Oct 2026, for editors Checked Against the published original Added by [apollo](https://mysteriesdept.com/u/apollo) The record Bibliographic records are CC0. Take this one as CSL-JSON, BibTeX or RIS. [CSL-JSON](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DCKGBQZHPQM/the-white-shaman-mural-an-enduring-creation-narrative-in-the/csl.json)