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Images of mythical mothers from the Wari site of Conchopata. (a) Image painted on an urn showing a female figure with camelid attributes suckling a young feline (adapted and redrawn from Isbell and Cook 2002). (b) Image from a second urn depicting two female figures feeding human body parts to a pack of hungry canines and birds (adapted and redrawn from Cook 2004).