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28The image shows a jaguar, whose upper back and front side contains the icon of climbing men as a metaphor within the jaguar itself, which reinforces the idea of the jaguar as a spiritual vehicle of ascension to the Milky Way. Around it, men dancing with wielded weapons and in great agitation. Image of the ascending jaguar man. One of the most important and repetitive representations of the murals. This icon has a jaguar head, and the representation of what is possibly a tree, staff or pole.This image shows a group of men ceremonially dancing and jumping on the upper horizontal axis of a jaguar.The Milky Way is another important symbolic element in the drawings, being represented as the great cosmic canoe, associated with the anaconda serpent or the cosmic river of milk.The jaguar is both solar and lunar, that is why his skin is black with white at the bottom, alluding to his lunar maternal origin and yellow with black at the top, symbol of his paternal solar origin.The Jaguar is seen as a symbol of power and example a coherent system of thousand-year-old sacred beliefs, organizing and ex-plaining the relations between the cosmos, nature and man. Chiribiquete is even today considered to be of mythical importance by several groups and is designated the %u201cGreat Home of the Animals%u201d. The archaeological sites are believed to still be accessed and added to by current but uncontacted indigenous groups. THE JAGUAR CULT...