The Cacaxtla murals are very much a local product but the prevailing outside influence is from the Maya region. The North and South murals flank a doorway, and are associated with unfired clay reliefs showing Maya dignitaries seated on monster-mask thrones. The North Mural depicts a man with Jaguar feet and completely clad in jaguar skin, standing on an elongated jaguar. He holds an object suggesting the Maya 'ceremonial bar' formed of tied-up spears from which drip blue drops of water; a nearby glyph in Teotihuacan style is to be read as 9 Wind, the calendrical name of Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent.
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