{"id":2824,"date":"2011-06-27T12:11:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2011-06-27T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:14:30","slug":"talking-about-tlaloc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2824","title":{"rendered":"Talking about Tlaloc, 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A turkey feather and a candle for Tlaloc. This culvert carries Hardscrabble Creek under a road\u2014what is left of it.<\/p><\/div>\n

In her comment on my first Tlaloc post<\/a>, Hecate Demetersdatter asks,\u00a0 “What was\/is it about Tlaloc that called\/calls to you?”<\/p>\n

It was my reading and re-reading of Craig Childs’ House of Rain<\/em> <\/a>that made me conscious of how important a deity Tlaloc (under various names) had been from antiquity to the present day in the American Southwest and on south into Mesoamerica. (Childs<\/a>, no avowed polytheist, tends to regard him simply as the personification of the hydrological cycle.)<\/p>\n

If we might regard deities as connected with place, then I am in that place and subject to that hydrological cycle\u2014a cycle that seems to have stalled a bit this year.<\/p>\n

And as Tlaloc has been addressed in many tongues already, why not add English to them?<\/p>\n

Also, looking forward to the American Academy of Religion meeting in San Francisco, I obviously need to eat here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In her comment on my first Tlaloc post, Hecate Demetersdatter asks,\u00a0 “What was\/is it about Tlaloc that called\/calls to you?” It was my reading and re-reading of Craig Childs’ House of Rain that made me conscious of how important a deity Tlaloc (under various names) had been from antiquity to the present day in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,23,5,40,149],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-religion","tag-colorado","tag-paganism","tag-polytheism","tag-tlaloc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-Jy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2776,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2776","url_meta":{"origin":2824,"position":0},"title":"Talking about Tlaloc","author":"Chas S. 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