Story and Stone II: Paired Literary & Anthropological Visions: Servants of the Flower World (Books III-V) & Ancestral Pueblo History
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Story & Stone II — Paired Literary & Anthropological Visions
Pairs Servants of the Flower World (Books III–V): Fight for This World, Underworld & the Return with A Rosetta Key for Ancestral Pueblo History.
In the epic, the struggle to defend a mountain pass, a descent through cavernous underworlds, and a return to the Great House unfold across mesas and canyon walls—stone as ground and dwelling. The companion presents a generational history of the Pueblo world—canyons and mesas, great houses and kivas, sacred turquoise—placing story alongside lived places and time-depth. Presented wholecloth and in dialogue, the two works can be read in either order, inviting readers to explore how a resonance with the Southwestern landscape and cosmology can help inspire a mythic story.
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Michael A. Susko is the author of Mystery Stone: Analyzed with Eastern Woodland Cosmology and A Rosetta Key for Ancestral Pueblo History, studies that stand alongside his epic Servants of the Flower World in the two-volume Story & Stone series. He holds an M.S. in Counseling Psychology with a background in philosophy, and has taught college courses on archetypes, the history of madness in Western civilization, and the symbolism of Indigenous cultures. His field experience includes travel in Guatemala observing Maya ritual life; he also draws on photography and vision-quest practice. He works on a generational scale to make history accessible; for the epic, that approach provides resonant material realities and symbolism drawn from the American Southwest.
