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Tlaloc has been used in several different areas: 1.) His name has been used as the name of a Mexican restaurant located here: http://www.sfweekly.com/locations/tlaloc-5461/ 2.) The famous god has been used in books: - Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico By Laszlo Passuth and Harry Hattyar http://www.amazon.com/Tlaloc-Weeps-Mexico-Laszlo-Passuth/dp/0918872022 -Book of the Fourth World By Gordon Brotherston http://books.google.com/books?id=kSY4AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=&f=false
"The Aztec god Tlaloc was believed to be the god of rain, fertility, and lightning. He was one of the three main gods of the Aztec’s being Tlaloc, Huitzilopochtli, and Quetzalcoatl. Tlaloc was considered a beneficent god but was also greatly feared for he could cause floods, drought, or fling lightening throughout the land. He could send torrential rains, hurricanes, and instigate hunger with his powers if he was angry. Tlaloc was also sometimes called Nahuatl (meaning one who makes things sprout). He is often shown with very large bulging eyes, long fangs, and wearing a net of clouds. Tlaloc wears a headdress of heron feathers, carries rattles used to make the thunder, and sports foam sandals. " "To appease this god, the Aztec people would offer up human sacrifices; in Tlaloc’s case it was usually children. The priest however, would collect the tears of these young terrified victims as an additional offering. He would sometimes make them cry more through tortures like pulling out their nails. The tears were seen as rain, so the more they cried the better the season of rainfall. Parents saw the sacrifice of their children as an honor; other children were those taken captive from outside villages. Whichever the case, the important thing was to keep Tlaloc happy. By doing so, they believed they were provided the rains to produce healthy crops." "Anyone who died from drowning, dropsy, lightning or anything else associated with water was thought to pass on to a place called Tlacocan, the paradise of fertility in the tallest mountain where Tlaloc lived and clouds were formed." - http://www.allabouthistory.org/tlaloc-faq.htm
Tlaloc: Aztec God of Rain, Lightning, and Thunder
Tlaloc, while being well known as the creator of life and sustenence, was also depicted as the fearsome bringer of hail, thunder, and lightning. Pictured with goggle eyes and fangs, Tlaloc posessed four jars from which he'd pour water down on the earth. One would cause maize and fruits to flourish, the second brought drought, the third sent frost, while the fourth caused total destruction.
Other peoples' versions of Tlaloc, including a polychromed ceramic vessel from the Great Temple in Tenochtitlan.
History
References:
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/mythology/tlaloc_rain.html
http://www.white-wolf.com/admin/upload_files/Tlaloc.jpg
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs17/f/2007/167/4/0/Tlaloc_by_drgn_skull05.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tlaloc
