Tlaloc
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Tlaloc
< Mexican Spanish Tláloc < Nahuatl Tlāloc, equivalent to tlāl ( li ) earth, land + oc lies, is stretched out
Example Sentences
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Many L.A. artists consider Tlaloc Studios a home base.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2024
One side was dedicated to the city’s patron Tlaloc, the god of rain.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In 2021, Ozzie Juarez founded Tlaloc Studios, an artist studio and gallery in South Los Angeles that quickly became a beloved space for all kinds of creative people in the city.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
One invokes Tlaloc, the Aztec rain god; another creates a new myth in which the roadrunner is a prophet.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2019
Joining to the temple of this idol there was a piece of less work, where there was another idol they called Tlaloc.
From Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245 by Holden, Edward Singleton
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