This mural is on a west-facing wall inside a high-ranking residential compound—and that combination of factors is not accidental. In Tetitla, as in other elite complexes at Teotihuacan, the placement of each image within the space appears to have been driven not by aesthetics but by systemic coherence: each wall, courtyard, and room had an iconographic program that responded to its position within the complex and the function it served. A west-facing wall with an image of the Sun's nocturnal journey was, within that logic, the element that completed the cycle—if other walls in the complex represented dawn, sowing, rain, or power, this one may have represented the completion of the cycle: the moment it ends so it can begin again.