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.