Dzahui

Dzahui (also rendered Dzavui or Sabio de la Lluvia in Spanish language scholarship) is the rain deity of Mixtec tradition, closely paralleling Tlaloc among the Aztec and Cocijo among the neighboring Zapotec. He appears repeatedly in the surviving Mixtec pictographic codices, typically shown with goggle-like eye markings and a stylized fanged mouth, presiding over agricultural fertility, storms and the mountain springs the Mixteca's farming communities depended on. The place name Nuu Dzavui, Place of the Rain God, was applied to the region as a whole, and Dzahui's cult was closely tied to the ruling dynasties recorded in the codices, several of which claimed descent from unions with him.