The discovery of a language for the schematic representation of forms by the Mezcala tradition is one of the most significant contributions to Mesoamerican art. I believe that the Mezcala phenomenon should be understood as a fortunate combination of two elements: on one hand, a very clear symbolic intention that required a certain level of abstraction, and on the other, a material and technique that favored the primarily rectilinear and geometric execution of the different forms. It seems to be schematic representations of temples, and it is likely that they played a central role in Mezcala funerary complexes. They would have been linked to the representation of the "world," which, in miniature, accompanied the deceased.