# Boyd 1996: Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec

> Carolyn E. Boyd, 1996. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Boyd's earlier, shamanic reading of Lower Pecos imagery.

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# Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec

Carolyn E. Boyd, 1996. _Latin American Antiquity 7(2), pp. 152 to 164_.

A spatial analysis of a recurring Lower Pecos motif, human figures passing through an opening in a serpentine arch, read by analogy with Mesoamerican and Gran Chichimeca ethnography as the shaman's journey into the spirit world. Argues the region's cosmologies were established in the Chihuahuan Desert at least 4,000 years ago.

**White Shaman MuralSecondary source** Articledoi: **[10.2307/971615](https://doi.org/10.2307/971615)** Checked against the original0

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Boyd's earlier, shamanic reading of Lower Pecos imagery.

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Boyd, C. E. (1996). Shamanic Journeys into the Otherworld of the Archaic Chichimec. Latin American Antiquity 7(2), pp. 152 to 164. https://doi.org/10.2307/971615
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