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Earthenware effigy urn (an incense burner) of Chaac, 12th–14th century. Chaac (also spelled Chac or, in Classic Mayan, Chaahk) is the name of the Maya god of rain, thunder, and lightning. With his lightning axe, Chaac strikes the clouds, causing them to produce thunder and rain. Chaac corresponds to Tlaloc among the Aztecs.
This has led to Meso-American goggle-eyed rain gods being referred to generically as "Tláloc," although in some cases it is unknown what they were called in these cultures, and in other cases we know that he was called by a different name, e.g., the Maya version was known as Chaac and the Zapotec deity as Cocijo.
Maya chacmool from Chichen Itza, excavated by Le Plongeon in 1875, now displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach.
Chaac, in Maya religion; Tohil, in K'iche' Maya mythology; Q'uq'umatz, another K'iche' Maya rain god; Tlaloc, in Aztec and all the other Nahua religions; [2] Cocijo, in Zapotec religion; [3] Tirípeme Curicaueri, in Purépecha religion; Dzahui, in Mixtec religion; [4] Mu'ye, in Otomi religion; Jaguar, in Olmec religion; Quiateot of the Nicarao ...
Aktzin(Totonacan: Ā'ktzini, "He who makes Thunder") [1] was the god of rain, thunder and lightning for the Totonac people of Mexico.Aktzin corresponds with Tláloc to the Aztecs and Chaac or Cabrakán to the Mayas, [2] and is most commonly syncretised with Saint John the Baptist.
In the Florentine Codex, a set of eighteenth-century volumes which form one of the prime sources of information about the beliefs and history of Postclassic central Mexico, Tlālōcān is depicted as a realm of unending Springtime, with an abundance of green foliage and edible plants of the region.
Butter beans are the grown-up (and infinitely more delicious) version of a lima bean. Large, creamy, and mild in flavor, they also shine in skillet dinners, particularly those with thicker sauces.
Chaac: the Maya civilization rain god, depicted in iconography with a human body showing reptilian or amphibian scales, and with a non-human head evincing fangs and a long, pendulous nose. Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids.