Tlaloc

[ tlah-lohk ]

noun

1. the Aztec god of rain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tlaloc¹

< Mexican Spanish Tláloc < Nahuatl Tlāloc, equivalent to tlāl ( li ) earth, land + oc lies, is stretched out

Example Sentences

We have before described the sacrifices of children to Tlaloc.

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The third festival of Tlaloc was celebrated in the sixth month, which would about correspond to our 6th of June.

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But there was another festival in honor of the Tlaloc, which seems very hard to understand.

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Tlalocan, an even more material Paradise, was that of the water-god or deity of moisture, Tlaloc.

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There was another place called Tlalocan the dwelling place of Tlaloc, the deity of water, which was also an Aztec elysium.

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