A Sampler of Murals

This depiction is pretty straight-forward, right? After all, what is unusual about a jaguar who wears ball-like tufts down its back and a feathered headdress while blowing a feather-decorated conch shell trumpet? The three drops of blood falling from the trumpet indicate that the shell symbolizes a human heart, removed from its former owner as part of a sacrifice.

Written by Richard A. Diehl