When Was Tlaloc Born?

John Pohl, of the FAMSI web site emphasized the dynastic rulers of the Bodley and spent much time and effort connecting the various rulers to their wives and children, many of whom can be found within the other Mixtec codices. His dynastic charts are impressive. Not being an astronomer, he ignored the astronomical details that are indicated in these manuscripts.

In 1994, I was invited to go to the Maya Meetings by a person, now deceased, Jan Adams. She indicated that there was quite a bit of information about the stars, not only in the codices, but also on the vases and wall panels found in Mesoamerican sites. It was not until 2001 that I realized I was deeply involved in the astronomical aspect of the Americas.

But it was not until this 2004 that I got involved in the Bodley and the other codices. The Bodley Codex produced 94 possible star births, that I submitted to John Pohl. Never heard a word. I assumed that I might have been wrong. So, some of my copies of the codices I took the time to redraw, others were just printed out and filed away.

It was not until this year (September, 2007) that I found something that was all wrong for any dynasty, therefore, not written about by John Pohl, but emphasized by Alfonso Caso in his Interpretation of the Bodley.that he wrote in 1960. On page 55 of this text, he gives a small chart of the proposed dynasty of those rulers who "wore the mask of Tlaloc."

Where is the real story of Tlaloc? In the Bodley Codex his birth, dated 7-House, 6-Horned Rabbit [with Jaguar spots,]1 appears to related to the marriage of One Monkey - Arrow-Jewel to Three Dog - Venus-Star. Here "Venus-Star was changed to Jaw-Star or -Sun by Alfonso Caso. And Tlaloc is now called 11-Serpent, Fire-Fan, in spite of his long fangs and general appearance. The rest of this geneology segment include his mother One Monkey, Jewel-Atl and his father Three Dog, Venus-Sun.

Once I had the birth of Tlaloc, I figured that I had a reason to continue searching for other occurrences of his black eyes and long fangs that were not associated with Water/Rain dates. I found forty-five (45) instances of Tlaloc. Many more instances that I had originally assumed could be official, until I discovered "he of the blue nose" and "he of the blue feet." Were they of Tlaloc? Or were they of a different star event? And why did I consider them to be of a star event?

Tlaloc is blue; Huitzilopochtli of the Aztec pantheon is blue' all of his ceremonies at Xlaltelolco, (sometimes called Tlaltelolco) are with blue items of clothing; the Aztec emperors wear a blue diadem while seated on their thrones; even Xiuhtecuhtli, the Turquoise Lord (or the returning Comet is considered to be blue. Cacaxtla has bright blue walls with Venus glyphs on prominent persons. Then, the wife of Tlaloc appeared as one of the forty-five instances of the Bodley also, as Seven-Reed (with a glyphs that contains the Tlaloc fangs and maybe his eyes but with many serpentine extensions). Tlaloc, himself is called "Seven Ollin [Wind] (with a serpentine-like tree with kneees and feet at the base as his glyph.) Both have the face of Tlaloc as definitive identification. To distinguish her as a female, she wears the Twisted serpent headdress with a banded skirt instead of his feathered skirt hem. Although there is no indication of a star element, hence no "heaven," it stills does not confirm any human dynamic element.

Her person does show the umbilical cord, but it shows no parent, neither mother nor father. Wow, a female "self-generated birth." How many more surprises are in the Bodley? Apparently, there are many, since once I began searching for impossible people events, I discovered 201(less the 94 original star birth glyphic elements that also seem to be related to star events. Even though Tlaloc was a very influential entity, the other star events, some associated with the earth monster are amazing. Some of the star elements appear alone over a land designation. My assumption is that they were "sighted in their multiple aspect" by the astronomers of the glyphic representation of the land.

Even the Lady of the Entwined Serpent Headdress appears to have a different role than is the accepted view of her. She appears so often with so many glyphic names that are associated with star elements that her names must be dates. She could not possibly marry as often as indicated in a single lifetime. So, at the moment this text is finished, until further notice.

1 A horned rabbit with jaguar spots may indicate that Tlaloc is the Maya god of the Aztec poem, "The Birth of the Fifth Sun;"as he who became [or carried] the Rabbit to the Moon. The Aztec version of the name of this god was Tecuiçiztecatl.