Tlaloc (2): learn how to recognise him!

Mentioned on Aztlan as fish hooks, they are perfect circles of nacre, open at one end. coud never have been fish hooks.

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Is Tlaloc a mushroom god?
A mushroom stone was excavated by Henri Lehmann at Mixco Viejo in 1956-57 near San Martin Jilotepeque, Department Chimaltenango in front of a double pyramid known as B-3-b at the foot of the altar, called structure A. Since double pyramids are usually devoted to the cult of Tlaloc, the tripod mushroom stone found in front of it could be interpreted as a connection between the rain god, lighting, and mushrooms that sprout from the underworld.

Images of Tlaloc represent an aspect of Quetzalcoatl as the provider a god who brought man corn and mushrooms, a god who because he makes things grow, and brings life from benieth the earth represents the god of life from death.
Archaeologist Edward Seler (1902-3, p.106) attributes the origin of the word Tlaloc to the verb “to sprout”. Seler said that the name Tlaloc, comes from a root meaning “that which sprouts”.

Tlaloc was known as the provider, and according to my father archaeologist Dr. Stephan F. de Borhegyi the Nahua referred to mushrooms as “dream flowers” folwers that took those to another world, a world that they called Tlaocan, considered the forth level of the heavens and the paradise of Tlaloc, a place of endless spring, a watery underground where sweet water sprouts life from death, and that all things below will germinate from death including mankind. My father wrote that Tlaloc was originally an Earth God, and as such was the prototype for the Old Fire God (wrinkled faced) or Fire God, and that his abode was located under the surface of the earth’s crust, or in “cueva laurga”. Later when Tlaloc became associated with rain his home was placed in the sky from where the rain falls, but that his earlier and original manifestation is definentely connected with the earth or underworld from where all life “sprouts”.

The Mexican god Tlaloc was known as “the God who makes things grow”, and the God of rain and lightning, attributes that also link him with the Maya deity God K also known as K’awil. The Totonacs called him Taj’in, and the Mixtecs worshiped him under the name of Cocijo. Tlaloc and Chac both at times are depicted carrying lighting bolts in the form of a staff resembling a snake. K’awil, also known as God K (Schellhas) from the codices and G II of the Palenque Triad, manifests a divine serpent leg that at times forms a staff held by Maya rulers called the Manikin Scepter. K’awil has been identified as the patron god of Classic Maya rulers.

My Saponi, Catawba, and Manahoac tribe ancestors in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia all used the Colors Blue...they liked to paint their face blue, they also would flatten their foreheads and would always paint a Circle around each eye. After the Spanish left the Aztec, Inca, and Mayan areas in the 1500s the Spanish entered South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. Our Siouan brothers would also wear the Serpent on the right shoulder blade while we wore 3 arrows on our right shoulder blade. we also built our burial mounds and villages along the rivers.