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Profile of P. aztecorum compared with Xochipilli base. 
lhe mushroom at this stage in its life is scarcely two 
centimeters at its greatest width. The mushroom motif 
also appears repeatedly on the body of our man in rap- 
ture—on both his knees, on his right forearm, on the 
top of his elaborate headdress. In these body represen- 
tations the mushrooms are reduced to three in number, 
but always with the same profile. Both on the base and 
more conspicuously on the body there seem to be other 
mushrooms behind the ones that we have discussed, only 
the peak of the cap of these other mushrooms being 
visible : 
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On the base there is what everyone familiar with 
Mesoamerican art will recognize as a highly stylized 
