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	Sala 5 Tláloc
		His cult was very important because the sustenance of agricultural societies depended on him, a concern that goes back to the times of the Olmec culture of La Venta.
		Among the Mayas he was called Chac; among the Zapotecs, Cocijo, and among the Totonacs, Tajín.
		Ometecuhtli, dual creator god par excellence, granted the organization of life-giving water to Tlaloc, for the waters of the sky and to his companion and sister Chalchiuhtlicue, for terrestrial waters.
	archaeology.la.asu.edu /tm/pages2/sala5.htm (396 words)

	Catalog of Zapotec Effigy Vessels Results
		The figure in the headdress corresponds to the Cocijo (glyph M).
		According to Linné, it was wearing a Cocijo mask.
		Glyphs: The face of an owl is tied to the right arm and glyph M (Cocijo) to the left arm.
	research.famsi.org /zapotec/zapotec_list.php?rowstart=20&search=cocijo&num_pages=8 (869 words)

	Lambityeco Archaeological Ruins Oaxaca Mexico Travel And Tour Pictures And Photos
		These two masks are equal in size and general shape, they are adorned with what appear to be crests of two large plumes with a central glyph with a stylized jaguar face.
		The Templo de Cocijo is located on the west side of the patio and it has a central stairway which leads up to the patio.
		The masks of Cocijo have topknots of long feathers attached with a glyph known as glyph C in the center.
	www.delange.org /Lambityeco1/Lambityeco1.htm (771 words)

	Catalog of Zapotec Effigy Vessels Results
		Glyphs: The glyph M (Cocijo) in the headdress is displayed on both sides of the same mask with a front view.
		Possibly two bars of five attached to the Cocijo's nose: 10?M. A glyph C in the headdress.
		The missing part could have been either a Cocijo face or the glyph for corn.
	research.famsi.org /zapotec/zapotec_list.php?search=cocijo (608 words)

	Archaeological Sites in Oaxaca- Monte Albán
		Fifteen deities from Monte Albán iconography can now be identified - associated predominantly with fertility and agriculture.
		More than any other icon found is the one of the god Cocijo, god of lightening and rain.
		Also depicted in urns and carvings are acrobats, ball players, jugglers, priests, merchants, musicians, warriors and soothsayers.
	www.oaxacaoaxaca.com /monte-alban.htm (603 words)

	Celerina's Rugs: The Zapotecs
		The Zapotec were the largest indian group of Oaxaca, from 800 BC to 1600 AC.The early Zapotecs were a sedentary, agricultural city-dwelling people who worshipped a pantheon of gods headed by Cocijo the rain god, represented by a fertility symbol combining the earth-jaguar and sky serpent symbols common in middle-american cultures.
		They had no traditions or legends of migration, but believed themselves to have been born directly from rocks, trees, and jaguars.
		Ancient Zapotec ritual activities provide clues to their pre-Hispanic religious beliefs.
	www.celerina.com /zapotecs.html (299 words)

	The Ancient Americas
		The god Cocijo (ko-SEE-ho) is the Zapotec supernatural being associated with lightning and rain.
		The Zapotec honored Cocijo both in public rituals and in the domestic rituals of common people.
		Cocijo himself is often represented wearing a feathered headdress like those worn by high-status people of Zapotec society.
	www.fieldmuseum.org /ancientamericas/rulers_11.asp (199 words)

	Mexico Desconocido: zapotec culture Funeral urns (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Given the social standing of the deceased, an urn for a female and with the characteristics of Cociji had to be made.
		Cocijo would have a headdress of feathers and traces of a jaguar, and he would have eye patches, ear shields and a serpent’s forked tongue to give special expression to his face.
		The effigy was in a sitting position, cross-legged with his hands on his knees; she was dressed in a quexquematl and a sort of skirt; the mask of Xipe Tótec hung at her breast; it was placed on a bar from which hung three snakes.
	www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /english/historia/prehispanica/detalle.cfm?idsec=1&idsub=2&idpag=593 (895 words)

	Nueva Dirección (Blog Cocijo) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cocijo, agencia creativa comunica a sus clientes y amigos su nueva dirección:
		Posted by Cocijo Agencia Creativa on Febrero 7, 2007 1:23 PM
		Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.
	www.cocijo.com /blog/2007/02/nueva_direccion.php (116 words)

	Chac : Cocijo
		Other Maya terms used to refer to Chac include Ah Tzenul, ("he who gives food away to other people"), Hopop Caan ("he who lights the sky"), and Ah Hoya ("he who urinates").
		Names for the Rain God in other Mesoamerican cultures include: Cocijo (Zapotec) and Tlaloc (Aztec).
		While most of the ancient Mesoamerican gods are long forgotten by the descendants of the original inhabitants today, prayers to the Chaacs, especially in times of drought, are documented in Yucatan as continuing into the 20th century among otherwise Christian Maya farmers.
	www.fastload.org /co/Cocijo.html (288 words)

	PLUMSOCK MESOAMERICAN STUDIES
		Los rituales de Cocijo probablemente eran oficiados por sacerdotes formales, tal vez los hijos de la nobleza, quienes pueden haber tenido un poder considerable dentro del estado de Monte Albán.
		The context of Cocijo images at Precolumbian sites in the valley of Oaxaca is primarily funerary, which suggests that rituals involving this entity were linked to ancestor commemoration as an important means of acknowledging lineage-based power in the leadership of Zapotec society.
		Cocijo rituals were probably performed by officially recognized priests, perhaps the sons of nobility, who may have held considerable power within the Monte Alban state.
	www.plumsock.org /publicacion41.htm (2378 words)

	MEXICO CHANNEL ® Discover Mexico : Oaxaca : The Zapotecs !
		As in all agricultural communities tied to nature, their daily lives were tied to and were dictated by religion.
		Their beliefs were based on one creator-god with multiple manifestations: Cozobi, corn; Cocijo, rain; Copijza, the Sun; and Bezelao, fertility.
		The flash of lightning itself was called Cocijo, and the thunder xvo Cocijo “the movement of the lightning”.
	www.trace-sc.com /zapotecs.htm (4132 words)

	Chac (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Other Maya terms used to refer to Chac include Ah Tzenul, ("he who gives food away to other people"), Hopop Caan ("he who lights the sky"), and Ah Hoya ("he who urinates").
		Names for the Rain God in other Mesoamerican cultures include: Cocijo (Zapotec) and Tlaloc (Aztec).
		While most of the ancient Mesoamerican gods are long forgotten by the descendants of the original inhabitants today, prayers to the Chaacs, especially in times of drought, are documented in Yucatan as continuing into the 20th century among otherwise Christian Maya farmers.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ch/chac.html (264 words)

	Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Adam T. Sellen - Re-evaluation of the Early Archaeological Collections from Oaxaca: A Trip ...
		In 1888, the Selers were present at an excavation of a tomb in a field in the "neighbourhood" of Zaachila, and were able to secure some of the material retrieved from the dig (E. Seler 1904b: 304).
		The two large conical cajetes are made of a brown paste and have hollow support legs, corresponding to the types described by Martínez López et al.
		The doubled spouted Cocijo vessels, made of grey paste, are also ubiquitous during this period (ibid.: 143, Figs.
	www.famsi.org /reports/05016/section12.htm (704 words)

	Phenomenon - the Civilization page - Aztec Gods -Tlaloc
		Known to the Maya as Chac, to the Totonacs as Tajin, to the Mixtecs as Tzahui, to the Zapotecs as Cocijo and throughout Mesoamerica.
		A water god probably one of the oldest gods worshiped as a result of the importance of rain for crop production.
		Called Choc by the Maya and Cocijo by the Mixtecs, the principal worship god of the Olmec culture.
	www.stateoftheart.nl /phenomenon/frames/subjects/mythology/aztec/gods/tlaloc.htm (1379 words)

	Mexico Desconocido: zapotec culture Funeral traditions in the world of the zapotecs (Oaxaca)
		The new urns decorated with the images of the main gods, including Cocijo, who is identifiable through his headdress of precious feathers and his eye patches, have already been placed in this space; it is Cocijo who makes life and survival possible.
		Some objects with food, some rustic plates and only one small urn with an image of the god Cocijo on it were placed next to his body.
		They also took care to bury some of his personal effects like his tools, a pair of axes, his planting stick and a flint knife that he used daily.
	www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx /english/historia/prehispanica/detalle.cfm?idsec=1&idsub=2&idpag=592 (1387 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Chac
		Other Maya terms used to refer to Chac include Ah Tzenul, ("he who gives food away to other people"), Hopop Caan ("he who lights the sky"), and Ah Hoya ("he who urinates").
		Names for the Rain God in other Mesoamerican cultures include: Cocijo (Zapotec) and Tlaloc (Aztec).
		While most of the ancient Mesoamerican gods are long forgotten by the descendants of the original inhabitants today, prayers to the Chaacs, especially in times of drought, are documented in Yucatan as continuing into the 20th century among otherwise Christian Maya farmers.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Chac (252 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DEFINITION: Mesoamerican rain and fertility god, usually depicted wearing a fringed mouth-mask or a spectacle-shaped frame round his eyes, recognized this way in the art of the Aztec people of Teotihuacán.
		Under various names Tlaloc was worshipped by other of the Mexican tribes: Chac (Lowland Maya), Tajin (Totonacs) and Cocijo (Zapotecs).
		Images of Tlaloc occur in many contexts over a considerable period of time, e.g.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?exact=1&terms=Tlaloc (86 words)

	A2Z Languages - Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico - City Guide - Archaeological Sites in Oaxaca
		It is located right behind M-195 Pyramid and on top of M-190 Pyramid.
		These sculptures feature huge images of the Zapoteca god of rain: "Cocijo".
		Both sculptures are identical, they feature the deity wearing a native head piece that seems to be made out of long feathers, with a gulch located in the middle.
	www.a2zlanguages.com /Mexico/Oaxaca/Solexico/sol_lambityeco.htm (639 words)

	Mitla Montealban
		Parecería que poseyeron conocimientos que les permitieron trascender el paso de los años y desafiar las fuerzas de la naturaleza para estar todavía hoy dándonos sus conocimientos trascendentales en silencio con sus estelas y pirámides.
		Los mixtecas y zapotecas tuvieron una deidad principal regente que fue Cocijo.
		Al igual que el Dios Tlaloc de los Nahuas, Cocijo, representaba el Dios del Agua.
	www.samaelgnosis.net /revista/ser27/capitulo_06.htm (1564 words)

	The Ancient Americas, New Permanent Exhibition - Chicano Forums (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This ceramic urn portrays Cocijo, a Zapotec supernatural force associated with lighting and rain, essential elements for this agrarian society.
		Consequently, Cocijo was believed to be the force that distinguished between living
		Urns like this were used by the ancient Zapotec people to honor deceased loved ones.
	www.chicanoforums.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=24729&view=getlastpost (628 words)

	Tlaloc Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They chose a word derived from the Nahuatl term meaning "he is the embodiment of the earth." Other fertility deities throughout Mesoamerica include Chac among the Maya, Cocijo among the Zapotec, Tzahui among the Mixtec, and Tajin among the Totonac.
		Many of these deities continue to be worshiped by the contemporary indigenous people of Mesoamerica.
		Other Mesoamerican people had similar rain gods with slightly different attributes, such as the Maya god Chaac and the Zapotec deity Cocijo.
	www.bookrags.com /Tlaloc (1251 words)

	Prehispanic Calendars
		The Zapotecs are believed to have invented the Mesoamerican ritual calen- dar of 260 days.
		Their calendar then presents 4 subdivisions of that period of 65 days (Cocijo) with smaller subdivisions of 13 days (Cocij) named according to the name of the first day.
		Information on software to calculate dates by the mesoamerican calendars.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~rjsalvad/scmfaq/calendar.html (442 words)

	Reyes en Cocijo on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		Reyes en Cocijo on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		La banda de cocijo, celebrando el día de Reyes
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	www.flickr.com /photos/56448117@N00/85059797 (95 words)

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