Tlaloc (nci)

Navatlaca Classica

Appellatio

• /tɬaːlok/

Notatio

“Quis humi iacuit.”

← tlālli + ono + -c

Nomen proprium

Tlāloc

1. Deus Aztecus pluviae et fertilitatis.

Loci

saec. XIX.

• 1890: TLALOC, 45. God of rain and the waters; a famous divinity among the ancient Mexicans. The word means "stretched on the earth," and the idol of the god represented a man extended on his back holding a vase. — Ancient Nahuatl Poetry Daniel G. Brinton [1]