The Olmec vessel’s mask snarls with a jaguar’s fangs and a bird’s hooked beak, its hollow eyes fixed in a glare beneath a ridged brow. This face may have channeled the rain deity’s voice in rituals—was its open mouth meant to roar or to drink?

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