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Old May 18th, 2006, 10:10 AM
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Default Re: Mictlan

Those are Aztec/Mayan names.

TLALOC, the rain deity, belonged to another most memorable and universal cult of ancient Mexico.The name may be Aztec, but the idea of a storm god especially identified with mountaintop shrines and life-giving rain was certainly as old as Teotihuacan. The primary temple of this major deity was located atop Mt. Tlaloc, where human victims were sacrificed to fertilize water-rocks within the sacred enclosure. In Tenochtitlan another Tlaloc temple shared the platform atop the dual Main Pyramid, a symbolic mountain.
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