Puebla Tehuacán

Tlaloc is the Mexican deity of rain. His name Tlaloctli, in Nahuatl means "nectar of the Earth", the wine drunk to produce lush vegetation.

In figurines and drawings, Tlaloc appears with his face covered by a mask consisting of two snakes that form a twine as a nose with the bodies wrapped around the eyes and their tails serve as a whisker. This double snake refers to Tlaloc as a cloud that appears in the sky, from which it hangs to provoke a storm.

Tlaloc has been assigned the color blue, which is for the waters. They painted their temples blue, as is the Tajín.

His image, however, predates the Nahua, as it appears in the maternal great culture of Mesoamerica, the Olmec with the tiger mask, and the image is portrayed in a relief in the great pyramid Teotihuacana of Quetzalcoatl.

Tlaloc has four helpers, Tlaloques, one on each cardinal point, which symbolize the clouds. They carry a pot with water and wield a baton. While fighting amongst themselves they break their pitchers with batons and produce thunder and lightning (fragments of pottery) and the rain (water contained in them).