Editing Cocijo (section)

==Appearance==
In Zapotec art Cocijo is represented with a [[Zoomorphism|zoomorphic]] face with a wide, blunt snout and a long forked serpentine tongue.<ref name="Miller & Taube 1993, 2003, p.64"/> Cocijo often bears the [[Mesoamerican writing systems#Zapotec writing|Zapotec glyph]] C in his headdress. A similar glyph is used in [[Mixtec civilization|Mixtec]] codices as the day sign Water and it is likely that its meaning in Zapotec is identical, therefore being the appropriate glyph for the rain and storm god.<ref name="Miller & Taube 1993, 2003, p.64"/>

Representations of Cocijo combine elements earth-jaguar and sky-serpent, which are associated with fertility. His eyebrows depict the heavens, his lower lids represent clouds,  and his forked serpent's tongue represents a bolt of lightning.<ref name="SourceBMA"/>

[[Image:Cocijo.jpg|thumb|left|200px| Urn representing Cocijo held at the [[Birmingham Museum of Art]].]]