TYPE: Creator God
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION: The sun deity representing the fourth of the five world ages each of which lasted for 2028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being fifty-two terrestial years. Assigned to water and presided over by Chalchiuhtlicue. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a deluge during which all the human population were turned into fish. Illustrated by the "Stone of the Four Suns" [Yale Peabody Museum] also 4(Atl), Atonatiuh and Chalchiutonatiuh.