TYPE: Creator god
ORIGIN: Aztec (Classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico]
INFORMATION: The sun deity representing the third of the five world ages, each of which lasted for 2028 heavenly years, each heavenly year being 52 terrestrial years. Assigned to the element fire and presided over by the rain god Tlaloc. According to tradition, the age ended in a cataclysmic destruction caused by a great fiery rain. The human population perished and in doing so were transformed into dogs, turkeys and butterflies. Illustrated by the "Stone of the Four Suns" [Yale Peabody Museum]. Also Quiauhtonatiuh; Tletonatiuh.