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TlalocAztec rain god, highly revered and feared for his ability to bestow or withhold prosperity. Five of the 18 months of the ritual year were dedicated to him, and children were sacrificed to him during two of the months. He could send out rain, provoke drought and hunger, and cause lightning and hurricanes. Dropsy, leprosy, and rheumatism were said to be caused by Tlaloc and his fellow deities. Those who died of such illnesses, or who had been killed by lightning, were granted an eternal and blissful life in his paradise, Tlalocan. |
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| Rafael Lara-Martinez suggests that we read the story allegorically: the two rival brothers as the army and the guerrilla, woman as country, and the thunderbolt that kills Matilde as the rain god Tlaloc (19). Some of their most powerful gods were Quetzalcoafl (patron of the arts and learning) and Tlaloc (god of rain). The Bonampak Murals that depict the presentation of a new heir to the throne, the hieroglyphics used to represent Mayan months and the different masks worn by the rain god Tlaloc in Mixteco, Zapoteco and Mexica styles can be found in the company's ties and scarves. |
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