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Bonampak Structure 1, Room 1

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Here we see royalty preparing for the festivities.
Their costumes are receiving last minute adjustments.
Above the figures, a zoomorphic head touches the capstones of room 1.
Mary Ellen Miller has hypothesised that the zoomorphic heads of rooms 1 and 3
mark the heads of the celestial monster, with the body stretching over room 2.
This would place the entire corpus of murals under the body of the sky.