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Archaeologist Alfonso Torres Rodríguez has revealed a recurring encounter with the lord of the underworld appearing at least 55 times in Hidalgo rock art in the region north of Mexico City. Spread across 25 sites and mostly dated between 350–750 AD, the scenes demonstrate how ancient communities imagined death as a meeting between people, ancestors, and supernatural powers. The same story might still find resonance during healing rituals around the present-day Otomi shamans. A Journey Guided by a Canid In an official release from Mexico’s Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), Torres Rodríguez describes the scenes as a “graphic syntagm.” In simple terms, this means a group of images arranged in a recognizable order