Legend has it that these "were-jaguars" were the descendants of a human woman who mated with a jaguar, and the cult of the jaguar became one of the shared motifs of other ancient Mesoamerican civilizations.
傳說這是女人與美洲虎交合的後代，美洲虎崇拜也成為中美洲其他古文明的一個母題。