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Jaguar God
Mexico
The Jaguar God (portrayed by a man wearing a jaguar mask) prostrates himself before an incense burner to placate an even more powerful god, Kinich Ahau, or “Night Sun.” In pre-Columbian Mayan mythology, the jaguar was an underworld god, thus a symbol of the night.
This entity appears in the story “17. The Calavera Enters”.