Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue are the parents of Tecciztecatl, who became the moon when he leapt into the divine bonfire at Teotihuacan.
⚠ Tecciztecatl's parentage from Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue appears in one tradition. Other Aztec sources do not specify his parents or give different genealogies.
Chalchiuhtlicue and Tlaloc preside together over Tlalocan, the verdant paradise where those claimed by water — the drowned, the struck by lightning, and the afflicted by water-borne disease — dwell in eternal abundance.
Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totec created Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue to preside over water and rain, appointing them lords of the waters as part of the gods' ordering of the newly made world.
Chalchiuhtlicue reigned as sun of the Fourth Age, Nahui Atl, until Tezcatlipoca struck her down — she wept tears of blood for fifty-two years, and her grief became the great flood that drowned the earth and turned its people into fish.
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