Mesoamerican

Tlaloc

He Who Makes Things Sprout

Goggle eyes and fangs — a face older than Tenochtitlan, already painted at Teotihuacan. Tlaloc rules Tlalocan, a green paradise of water for those who died by lightning, drowning, or water-linked disease. He can send the gentle rain that raises maize, or the fire-rain that ended the Third Sun. The Maya rain lord Chaahk shares the lightning axe and the mountain caves where storms are kept.