Tlaloque

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Sculpture of a block. Museum of the Great Temple, Mexico City.

Tlaloque (from Nahuatl: Tlalohkeh 'the owners of Tlaloc''Tlaloctli, came from the earth; -hkeh, owner of') in Mexica mythology they are the helpers of Tlaloc, in charge of distributing the rain over the earth in vessels. These helpers were the souls of children under 8 years of age who made offerings in Tlaloc's tlalocan enclosure and if the children cried it was a good omen when it came time to ascend with Tlaloc.

For it to rain, they said that the Tlaloque had to break their pot, so thunder was the sound that the pot made when breaking. Ángel María Garibay in his book Theogony and history of Mexicans. Three booklets from the 16th century tell us about these creatures: "And this god of rainwater created many small-bodied ministers, who are in the rooms of said house, and have piggy banks in which they take the water from those barrels and some sticks in the other hand, and when the rain god commands them, and when it thunders, that is when they break the boxes with the sticks, and when lightning comes it is from what they had inside, or part of the piggy bank".

These are the following tlaloque:

• Opochtli (from Nahuatl: opochtli‘The Left’‘opochtli, zurdo’), distributed to the North.
• Nappatecuhtli (from Nahuatl: nappateuctli‘the four times sir’‘nappafour times; teuctli, sir’), distributed east.
• Yauhqueme (of the Nahuatl: Now let me‘pericon’‘alreadypericon; me., dress’), distributed to the West.
• Tomiyauhtecuhtli (from Nahuatl: tomiyauhtecuhtli‘the lord of our ears’‘toours; miyauhears; four times; tecuhtli, sir’), distributed to the South.