Tlaloc’s Family Tree

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Family

• Chalchiuhtlicue(spouse),Tecciztecatl(child)— Marriage

  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.

• Xochiquetzal(spouse)— Marriage

  Tlaloc and Xochiquetzal were wed in the early age of the gods, rain and flowering beauty joined, until Tezcatlipoca tore her away and the rains turned bitter.

Rules over

• Tlalocan

  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.

• Tlaloque

  Tlaloc commands the Tlaloque, his innumerable rain servants stationed at the four quarters of the world, dispatching them to shatter their water jars against the clouds and send storms crashing over the earth.

Created by

• Huitzilopochtli,Quetzalcoatl,Tezcatlipoca,Xipe Totec

  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.

Equivalent to

• Chaac(Maya)

  Tlaloc and Chaac are the Aztec and Maya rain gods, cognate figures in the broader Mesoamerican rain deity tradition with shared goggle-eye iconography tracing back to Teotihuacan.

Associated with

• Ehecatl

  Ehecatl sweeps the roads of the sky clean before Tlaloc's rains, his wind driving dust and clearing the heavens so the storm god's waters may fall unimpeded upon the earth.

• Quetzalcoatl

  Tlaloc presided over the Third Sun, Nahui Quiahuitl, until Quetzalcoatl brought it to ruin by raining fire from the sky, burning the world and transforming its people into turkeys and butterflies.

• Tenochtitlan

  The Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan bore twin shrines at its summit — Huitzilopochtli's on the south and Tlaloc's on the north — binding the city's fate to both war and rain, blood and harvest, in a single sacred mountain of stone.

• Tezcatlipoca

  Tezcatlipoca abducted Xochiquetzal from her husband Tlaloc, taking the goddess of beauty and flowers as his own consort.