I like this one. I'd waited about two hours for this and the sun was finally coming up and around the front of the facade. These guys knew what they were doing - it looked as though you'd have straight down illumination around high noon at midsummer

You can really see the signature curved nose of the chaak representation. On the flat of each nose where it joins the face plane there are two 2" diameter by 2" deep holes about 2" apart. There were traces of animal fats and wax soaked wick found in some of them and the speculation is that all of the noses had twin lights on them to illuminate all the painted faces. Yes, the noses are that wide, and yes there were traces of polychrome paint all over the place even after centuries had gone by. On a still moonlit night it must have been a real knockout

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