Editing Tlālōcān (section)

==Aztecs==
In the [[Florentine Codex]], a set of eighteenth-century volumes which form one of the prime sources of information about the beliefs and history of  [[Mesoamerican chronology|Postclassic]] central Mexico, Tlālōcān is depicted as a realm of unending Springtime, with an abundance of green foliage and [[domesticated plants of Mesoamerica|edible plants of the region]].<ref>As described in Miller and Taube (1993, p.167)</ref>

Tlālōcān  is also the first level of the upper worlds, or the Aztecs' [[Thirteen Heavens]], that has four compartments according to the [[Mythology|myth]]ic [[cosmography|cosmographies]] of the [[Nahuatl language|Nahuatl]]-speaking peoples of [[pre-Columbian]] central Mexico, noted particularly in [[Spanish conquest of Mexico|Conquest-era]] accounts of [[Aztec mythology]]. To the [[Aztec]] there were thirteen levels of the Upper Worlds, and nine of the Underworld; in the conception of the [[Afterlife]] the manner of a person's death determined which of these layers would be their destination after dying. As the place of Tlālōc, 9th Lord of the Night,<ref>Elizabeth Hill Boone : ''Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate''. U of TX Pr, Austin, 2007. pp. 95–99</ref> Tlālōcān was also reckoned as the 9th level of the Underworld, which in the interpretation by [[Eduard Seler]] was the uppermost underworld in the east.<ref>[http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/america/am-moff4.htm The Theosofy of Ancient America] by Blair A. Moffett</ref>

As a destination in the Afterlife, the levels of heaven were reserved mostly for those who had died violent deaths,<ref>Those dying of "natural causes", i.e. the majority, would instead endure a perilous journey through the layers of the Underworld to finally reach [[Mictlān]], the lowest layer. See Miller and Taube (1993:178).</ref> and Tlālōcān was reserved for those who had drowned or had otherwise been killed by manifestations of water, such as by [[flood]], by diseases associated with water, or in storms by strikes of [[lightning]]. It was also the destination after death for others considered to be in Tlālōc's charge, most notably the physically deformed.<ref>See for example the [[Codex Rios|Vaticanus A Codex]], per Miller and Taube (''op. cit.'')</ref>

Many different gods are said to inhabit this location, them being: [[Meztli]], moon goddess ([[Moon]]), [[Tlazolteotl]], goddess of lust and illicit affairs, patron of sexual incontinence, adultery, sex, passions, carnality and moral transgression, [[Tiacapan]], one of the goddesses of sex, [[Ixcuina]], one of the goddesses of sex, [[Tecotzin]] or [[Teicu]], one of the goddesses of sex, [[Tlaloc]], god of thunder, rain and the earth. In this layer he pierces the "clouds' bellies" to make them rain, [[Ehecatl]], god of the wind. In this layer he blows the clouds with his breath (breezes) to make them move, The [[Ehecatotontli]], gods of the breezes, [[Mictlanpachecatl]], god of the north wind, [[Cihuatecayotl]], god of the west wind, [[Tlalocayotl]], god of the east wind, [[Huitztlampaehecatl]], god of the south wind.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Divine Thirteen: The Sacred Aztec Number – 1127 Words {{!}} Cram |url=https://www.cram.com/essay/Divine-Thirteen-The-Sacred-Aztec-Number/F3RGPV53GYKW#google_vignette |access-date=2023-11-16 |website=www.cram.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Fernández |first=Adela |url=http://archive.org/details/diosesprehispnic0000fern |title=Dioses prehispánicos de México : mitos y deidades del panteón náhuatl |date=1992 |publisher=México, D.F. : Panorama Editorial |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-968-38-0306-1}}</ref>