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Gods & Deities ยท Central Mexico and broader Mesoamerica

Tlaloc

The Mesoamerican rain god associated with storms, mountains, and fertility.

Legend File

Tlaloc is a rain and storm deity whose gifts are essential and dangerous. He brings water for crops, but also lightning, hail, and flood. In Central Mexican tradition he is tied to mountains, springs, and a watery otherworld, making weather feel like a negotiation with powers that feed civilization and can break it.

Source Framing

Central Mexican Tlaloc rain deity traditions, with older highland rain-god imagery, mountain-dwelling Tlaloque, and links to rain, lightning, fertility, and dangerous storms.

Archival-style rain-and-mountain plate for Tlaloc with storm cloud, water, maize, stone, and abstract weather studies.
Source reference Tlaloc reference plate Central Mexican Tlaloc rain deity traditions, with older highland rain-god imagery, mountain-dwelling Tlaloque, and links to rain, lightning, fertility, and dangerous storms. Codex art session / Myth Atlas