Qliphoth




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Tlaloc
Many rich offerings were regularly placed before it, especially those linked to water such as jade, shells and sand. Mount Tlaloc, the jewel in the crown of Tlaloc’s places of worship, was situated directly east of the pyramid.
Also to be found inside its walls were four pitchers containing water.
The children were beautifully adorned, dressed in the style of Tlaloc and the Tlaloque. On litters strewn with flowers and feathers; surrounded by dancers, they were transported to a shrine and their hearts would be pulled out by priests. If, on the way to the shrine, these children cried their tears were viewed as signs of imminent and abundant rains. Every Atlcahualo festival, seven children were sacrificed in and around Lake Texcoco in the Aztec capital. They were either slaves or the second born children of nobles.

At the household level some individuals would pledge to make the 'Little Moulded Ones' for the festival, in honor of Tlaloc…  They took amaranth dough and formed it into the shapes of mountains, with teeth of gourd(pumpkin) seeds and eyes of fat black beans.  Then throughout the night before their festival the little figures, propped up for their victims' vigil, were celebrated and feasted in the houses of the devotees; men sang for them, and trumpets and flutes played.  At dawn the priests took weaving sticks and thrust them into the figure's hearts, and then 'twisted their heads off, wrung their necks', giving the hearts to the householders, and taking the remaining fragments of seed-dough back to the priests' houses to be eaten.







Huitzilopochtli 
‪"Left-Handed Hummingbird"‬ ‪‬
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La Llorona 
("The Weeping Woman") A beautiful woman by the name of Maria kills her children by drowning them, in order to be with the man that she loves. When the man rejects her, she kills herself. Challenged at the gates of heaven as to the whereabouts of her children, she is not permitted to enter the afterlife until she has found them. Maria is forced to wander the Earth for eternity, searching in vain for her drowned offspring, with her constant weeping giving her the name "La Llorona".


La Llorona kidnaps wandering children. People who claim to see her say she comes out at night or in the late evenings from rivers or oceans in Mexico. Some believe that those who hear the wails of La Llorona are marked for death. She is said to cry "Ay, mis hijos! Ay, mis hijos!" which translates to "Oh, my children!"