Sentence examples for rain deity from inspiring English sources

Joseph was conflated with the Aztec rain deity Tlaloc, and he ends up taking over some of the tasks of Tlaloc.

This lends political point to the battle of Marduk (thunder and rain deity), the god of Babylon, with the sea, Tiamat; it also accounts for the odd, almost complete silence about Enlil of Nippur in the tale.

The dragon, in remote antiquity perhaps an alligator or rain deity, is the benevolent but potentially dangerous symbol of the emperor; the crane symbolizes long life; and paired mandarin ducks symbolize wedded fidelity.

It was formerly thought that the Olmec worshiped only one god, a rain deity depicted as a were-jaguar, but study has shown that there were at least 10 distinct gods represented in Olmec art.

However it was done, the effect is pure magic, whether it's the expressive splendor of a starry-eyed man as he gazes down at you with greenish-blue eyes outlined in reddish brown, a conga line of chalky-white figures with arms raised in dancelike poses, or a black-and-white figure of Tlaloc, the wide- eyed Mesoamerican rain deity, with his intricate geometric-patterned torso.

Senegalese farmers that were converted to Islam have replaced their crops with O. sativa, while those that maintained their traditional religion continued to plant African rice to honor their supreme deity, the rain god that gave O. glaberrima to their forbearers (Linares 2002).

This is why we think we should be able to find offerings to the rain god Chaak, other water deities and ancestors in the depths of a portal not only to the underworld but to another world altogether.

The Aztecs believed cacao was a gift of Quetzalcoatl, the god of wisdom, while the Maya called the seed "god's sustenance" and associated it with various deities, including the rain god and the gods of death and the underworld.

At that time Quetzalcóatl seems to have been conceived as a vegetation god an earth and water deity closely associated with the rain god Tlaloc.

The Mesoamerican pantheon was associated with the calendar and featured an old, dual creator god; a god of royal descent and warfare; a sun god and moon goddess; a rain god; a culture hero called the Feathered Serpent; and many other deities.

Although nominally Christian, most Mixtec believe in an assortment of pre-Christian spirits and deities, and in some areas they worship stone idols representing the rain god.