The motif of framed mythological beings continues on this portion of the stucco frieze. Between two of these frames sits a glyph reminiscent of the one used for writing puh, which modern epigraphers take to be a mention of the mythological Place of Cattail Reeds and, by extension, of the distant, mighty Teotihuacan. On the uppermost portion of the frieze, the endless repetition of what appears to be a glyph for the syllable le, commonly associated with water, lends strength to the argument that this frieze recounts some passage from Maya mythology, as many such scenes elsewhere are marked by similar le glyphs, which served to place depicted events as happening in a watery place (i.e., the supernatural realm).
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