water-owners (deities); in the Treatise of Alarcón, a metaphorical name for clouds (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629); see also our entry for ahuaque Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.
divinities that make/cause rain, thunder, lightning and lightning bolts that strike trees.