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- ↑ Shearer, Tony (1 June 1971). Lord of the Dawn: Quetzalcoatl. Naturegraph Pub. ISBN 0911010742.
- ↑ Shearer, Tony (1 March 1995). Lord of the Dawn: Quetzalcoatl and the Tree of Life. Naturegraph Pub. ISBN 0879612401.
- ↑ Hamsa, Chuck (September 2005). "The Praying Flute". Naturegraph. Retrieved 15 August 2017.
Shearer died in May of 2002 at 75 years of age.
