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Cocijo
Cocijo (occasionally spelt Cociyo) is a lightning deity of the pre-Columbian Zapotec civilization of southern Mexico. He has attributes characteristic of similar Mesoamerican deities associated with rain, thunder and lightning, such as Tlaloc of central Mexico, and Chaac (or ''Chaak'') of the Maya civilization.〔Miller & Taube 1993, 2003, p.64.〕 In the Zapotec language, the word ''cocijo'' means "lightning", as well as referring to the deity.〔
Cocijo was the most important deity among the pre-Columbian Zapotecs because of his association with rainfall.〔Avila Aldapa 2002, p.97.〕 He is commonly represented on ceramics from the Zapotec area, from the Middle Preclassic right through to the Terminal Classic.〔 Cocijo was said to be the great lightning god and creator of the world.〔Read & González 2000, p.248.〕 In Zapotec myth, he made the sun, moon, stars, seasons, land, mountains, rivers, plants and animals, and day and night by exhaling and creating everything from his breath.〔
==Appearance==
In Zapotec art Cocijo is represented with a zoomorphic face with a wide, blunt snout and a long forked serpentine tongue.〔 Cocijo often bears the Zapotec glyph C in his headdress. A similar glyph is used in Mixtec codices as the day sign Water and it is likely that its meaning in Zapotec is identical, therefore being the appropriate glyph for the rain and storm god.〔
Representations of Cocijo combine elements earth-jaguar and sky-serpent, which are associated with fertility. His eyebrows depict the heavens, his lower lids represent clouds, and his forked serpent's tongue represents a bolt of lightning.〔
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