 Also the Classic Maya god of rulership and thunder known to modern Mayanists as "God K", or the "Manikin Scepter" and to the classic Maya as "K'awil" was depicted with a smoking obsidian knife in his forehead and one leg replaced with a snake.Although there are striking similarities between possible earlier imagery of Tezcatlipoca, archaeologists are split in the debate.It is possible that he is either the same god that the Olmec and Maya reference with their "jaguar deity" or that Tezcatlipoca is a latter, more expanded version of the foundations the Olmec and Maya set, as the Aztecs often took inspiration from earlier cultures.