The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (sometimes called the Southern Cult) is the name given to a broad, regional similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies and mythology of the Mississippian culture that accompanied their adoption of maize agriculture. This development appears to have links to Mesoamerica. Iconography is the study and interpretation of images in art. ... Jump to: navigation, search The word mythology (from the Greek μυϑολογία mythologÃa, from μυϑολογειν mythologein to relate myths, from μυϑος mythos, meaning a narrative, and λογος logos, meaning speech or argument) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to... Jump to: navigation, search The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States in the centuries leading up to European contact. ... Binomial name Zea mays L. Maize (Zea mays ssp. ... Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. ...
A complex could be a characteristic tool or type of pottery or it could be a pattern of buildings that occur together.
A complex is a chronological subdivision of different artifact types and implies a culture, whereas an assemblage is merely a collection of contemporaneous specimens.
The major elements were: the valley temple, the causeway, the mortuary temple, the royal pyramid, a subsidiary/satellite pyramid(s), subsidiary burials of members of the extended royal family and officials of the king, and pits containing full-size boats.
Because of its geographical location, "advanced" civilization, and similarities with Mexico in areas such as masonry, painted pottery, cloth weaving, rain ceremonies, and the priesthood, the Southwest is often regarded as the passageway for the flow of culture from Mesoamerica to other parts of North American continent.
The most well known example of art is the service of healing is the Navajo sand-painting ritual, in which a patient lies on the ground while a medicine man-singer chants and blows colored sand onto the patient and onto the ground.
Many aesthetic changes have taken place in the twentieth century as native peoples have participated more fully on the dominant culture and incorporated artistic traditions from the United States, Europe, and other parts of the globe into their own traditions Native American artists are in the process of developing new definitions of Indian art.
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