The Tlaloque drove their elder sister Huixtocihuatl into the ocean, banishing her among the salt waters where she discovered the art of salt-making and claimed dominion over it.
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.
The Tlaloque summoned Huemac to Cincalco beneath Chapultepec hill, offering him the abundance stored within its chambers as the surface world above Tula collapsed into famine and ruin.
Huemac played the ball game against the Tlaloque and won, but when they offered him ears of maize he demanded jade and quetzal feathers instead, provoking the rain gods to withhold their waters and starve Tollan into ruin.
The Tlaloque dwell within Tlalocan, where they store the great jars of rain and hail, pouring water down upon the earth at Tlaloc's command from the four quarters of his paradise.
The Tlaloque seized the maize from Tonacatepetl after Nanahuatzin split the mountain open, carrying away the white, blue, yellow, and red corn along with beans, amaranth, and other foodstuffs.
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