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In the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, one of the two shrines on top of the Great Temple was dedicated to Tláloc. The high priest who was in charge of the Tláloc shrine was called "Quetzalcoatl Tláloc Tlamacazqui." It was the northernmost side of this temple that was dedicated to Tláloc, the god of rain and agricultural fertility.
Tōnacātēuctli, god of sustenance associated with Ometecuhtli. Piltzintēuctli, god of the visions. In Aztec mythology, he is associated with Mercury (the planet that is visible just before sunrise or just after sunset) and healing. Citlalatonac, god of female stars in the Milky Way. Mixcōātl, god of hunting and old god of hurricanes and ...
Centeotl, god of maize; Tlaloc, god of rain, lightning and thunder. He is a fertility god. Quetzalcoatl, god of life, light and wisdom, lord of the winds and the day, ruler of the West. Tezcatlipoca, god of providence, the darkness and the invisible, lord of the night, ruler of the North. Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, god of dawn
[citation needed] They were cyclical, so that the same god recurred every thirteen days. In the Aztec calendar, the lords of the day are [1] Xiuhtecuhtli, god of fire and time. Tlaltecuhtli, goddess of the earth. Chalchiuhtlicue, goddess of water, lakes, rivers, seas, streams, horizontal waters, storms and baptism. Tonatiuh, god of the sun.
Tagbanua (Manobo mythology): the god of rain [17] Pamulak Manobo (Bagobo mythology): supreme deity and creator of the world, including the land, sea, and the first humans; throws water from the sky, causing rain, while his spit are the showers; [ 18 ] controls good harvest, rain, wind, life, and death; in some myths, the chief deity is simply ...
Chalchiuhtlicue was highly revered in Aztec culture at the time of the Spanish conquest, and she was an important deity figure in the Postclassic Aztec realm of central Mexico. [5] Chalchiuhtlicue belongs to a larger group of Aztec rain gods, [6] and she is closely related to another Aztec water god called Chalchiuhtlatonal. [7]
The faded red paint formed a well-preserved red circle, about 4 inches thick, experts said. Inside, the 3-foot-wide mural, found on three chapel walls, contained a plume of feathers, an ax, a wand ...
Each of the four sons takes a turn as Sun, these suns are the sun of earth, the sun of air, the sun of fire, the sun of water (Tlaloc, rain god replaces Xipe-Totec). Each world is destroyed. The present era, the Fifth Sun is ushered in when a lowly god, Nanahuatzin sacrifices himself in fire and becomes Tonatiuh, the Fifth Sun. In his new ...