The rain god appears as a werejaguar, part human, part snarling beast.

A number of experiments have looked at anticaricatures, that is interpolations of the individual face towards the average, and even antifaces, which extrapolate the original face onto the other side of the mean (Blanz et al. 2000).

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This society has been known for centuries for its colorful clothing and tight-knit family structure.