Word: tlaloc
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...Angeles, where it seldom rains, the Angels had to postpone their home opener and hand out rain checks. They couldn't exactly blame Mexico's former President Miguel Aleman, who gave the city a statue of the Aztec rain god, Tlaloc, on March 27. But it did rain for 13 straight days, right through the opening...
...fancy distribution chamber with sumptuous murals, some of them under water but shielded from water damage by mixing polystyrene with his pigments and coating the whole with transparent rubber (TIME, June 4). For the outside, he designed a large pool (see cut), in which reclines a giant sculpture of Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god. Rivera calls this "the first work of plastic art ever done to be seen from a helicopter...
...Cortesian sculptures. Stone-grey and stone-cold, the rooms coil upon each other in a snakelike labyrinth. In the ceilings are white stone mosaics different from anything Rivera has done before-deceptively simple abstractions that seem to waver, cloudlike, on the edge of recognizability. One of them, representing Tlaloc the rain god, is a face formed of two writhing snakes, set so as to be reflected in a sunken pool. The tower of the god of air is so designed that a chill draft eddies through it on the stillest days...
...regions where the rains had not yet started, Indians slipped into church to pray before the images of their favorite saints, and in the plazas they danced to the ancient Tlaloc, Aztec god of rain. They prayed that the rains might be plentiful, that the brown land might grow green and that this might be the one year in five when crops would be so good that Mexico could feed itself...
...stylized white stone head of Tlaloc, a rain god from the Mixteca-Puebla tribes, famed for their delicate gold jewelry and carvings on bone and wood...