Tlaloc (Azca9)
This is a red, white, and yellow painting of the simplex glyph for the deity name, Tlaloc.
Stephanie Wood
post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century
Jeff Haskett-Wood
This ceramic brazier with Tlaloc’s face comes from the House of the eagles north of the Templo Mayor. It contained ashes and maguey plant tips that had been burned during ceremonies. Museum signage points to his main attributes: “mustache cover, two sharp fangs and forked tongue, in addition to two large rectangles projecting to the sides, probably representing the typical pleated paper headdress” associated with this divine force. Photograph by Stephanie Wood, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 15 February 2023.
Tlaloc, deity name, divine force of rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaloc
The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=9&st=image
The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.
