Also - notice that in the middle of many of the faces there's
the remnant of a broken off nose. Looking at these masks - it slowly strikes
you that each face shares an "ear" with the next one. This is true except
for the middle of the bottom course of masks - down between what early observers
called "ornamental steps" - it being so alien an appearance they couldn't
see that they were walking on the god's heads.
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