TYPE: Minor god of lakes and fish hunters.
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION: One of the group classed as the Mixcoatlcamaxtli complex.
In Aztec mythology, Atlahua, Ahtlahua, Atlahoa, Atlavâ or Atlaua [a'tlawa] was a water God (the blue version of Tlaloc, the Tlaloc from the South), fisherman and archer. There were said to be at least four ancient Aztec temples at which he was worshiped, the tallest supposedly being over 200 feet tall (61 metres). The Aztecs prayed to him when there were deaths in water, such as when Hernando Cortez conquered Tenochtitlan (the Ancient Aztec capital on a lake, now Mexico City), and the lake was said to be "floating with heads and corpses".