deity
Tlaloc
The named Aztec rain and mountain storm god. Not Quetzalcoatl as the feathered serpent, and not rain as bare weather.
Also known as Tlāloc
Nahua tradition
Tlaloc appears in Nahua tradition.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex Book 1 and mountain/rain feast speech record Tlaloc as rain and storm god — named deity of mountains, water, and Tlalocan allotment. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
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Mountain is sacred to Tlaloc.
Sahagún’s Florentine Codex seats Tlaloc’s cult on mountains and records mountain shrines watered for rain — mountains dedicated in Tlaloc rite, not bare landscape alone. A colonial-era Nahua ethnographic attestation, not a pan-Mesoamerican essence and not an unfiltered pre-invasion voice.
from Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators · Florentine Codex, c. 1577
sacred to · sourced · culturally specific
sources
- Florentine Codex · Bernardino de Sahagún and Nahua collaborators
Bernardino de Sahagún, General History of the Things of New Spain (Florentine Codex).