On Mexico's best known rain god, Tlaloc & the Pastita Waterfall

The falls in the Pastita are even wider, more forceful and brown with dirt today than they were several days ago when I took the picture. Now that we're in the midst of the rainy season in Guanajuato, here's background on one of pre-Hispanic Mexico's most important rain god, the Nahua god  Tlaloc:

      "In the native manuscripts Tlaloc is usually portrayed as having a dark complexion, a large round eye, a row of tusks, and over the lips an angular blue stripe curved downward and rolled up at the ends. The latter character is supposed to have been evolved originally from the coils of two snakes, their mouths with long fangs in the upper jaw meeting in the middle of the upper lip. The snake, besides being symbolised by lightning in many American mythologies, is also symbolical of water, which is well typified in its sinuous movements."  from The Myths of Mexico and Peru [Kindle Edition]

Lewis Spence

this section also online at http://www.sacred-texts.c; you can see the image by going to http://archaeology.asu.edu/tm/pages/mtm47.htm or in person to the Templo Mayor. I am not reproducing it because it is under copyright.

om/nam/mmp/mmp05.htm