X - ⌧

"The X-shaped design, suggesting two crossed sticks, is to be seen in a number of places at La Venta: in the mouth of the jaguar-mask on the proceeding top of Altar 4, and on the headdress of Figure 1 of Altar 5. From point of view of frequency, however, this motif should be considered more typical of Maya than of La Venta art, for it appears on the Leyden Plate, on numerous stelae and decorated fagades, as well as the much later Mayan codices"   -- Drucker