It is not just the size that makes this mural stand out—it is its zoological precision. The animal depicted is unmistakably a puma: its smooth, unspotted coat distinguishes it from the jaguar, which appears in dozens of other murals across the site. That distinction matters, because in the Mesoamerican worldview these animals carried different symbolic weight. The jaguar was associated with the underworld and the night; the puma, with the daytime Sun and visible power. Its position on the east side of the Avenue of the Dead—the direction of sunrise—reinforces that reading. The diagonal red, white, and blue bands across which it moves may represent the three planes of the cosmos.