Hymn of Tlaloc

The Hymn of Tlaloc is the third of the twenty sacred hymns Bernardino de Sahagun recorded in Nahuatl from Nahua informants in the sixteenth century, preserved as an appendix to Book II of the Florentine Codex alongside the Hymn to Huitzilopochtli, which this atlas also covers. It addresses Tlaloc, the rain and storm deity whose favor was invoked for the maize harvest, in the dense, allusive, metaphor-heavy register characteristic of the whole hymn cycle, which modern scholars regard as among the most linguistically difficult surviving Nahuatl religious poetry.