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Tlalocan
Tlālōcān ("place of Tlaloc") is described in several Aztec codices as a paradise, ruled over by the rain deity Tlaloc and his consort Chalchiuhtlicue. It absorbed those who died through drowning or lightning, or as a consequence of diseases associated with the rain deity. Tlalocan has also been recognized in certain wall paintings of the much earlier Teotihuacan culture. Among modern Nahua-speaking peoples of the Gulf Coast, Tlalocan survives as an all-encompassing concept embracing the subterranean world and its denizens.
==Aztecs==
In the Florentine Codex, a set of sixteenth-century volumes which form one of the prime sources of information about the beliefs and history of Postclassic central Mexico, Tlalocan is depicted as a realm of unending Springtime, with an abundance of green foliage and edible plants of the region.〔As described in Miller and Taube (1993, p.167)〕
Tlalocan is also the first level of the upper worlds, or the Aztecs' Thirteen Heavens, that has four compartments according to the mythic cosmographies of the Nahuatl-speaking peoples of pre-Columbian central Mexico, noted particularly in Conquest-era accounts of Aztec mythology. To the Aztec there were thirteen levels of the Upper Worlds, and nine of the Underworld; in the conception of the Afterlife the manner of a person's death determined which of these layers would be their destination after dying. As the place of Tlaloc, 9th Lord of the Night,〔Elizabeth Hill Boone : ''Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate''. U of TX Pr, Austin, 2007. pp. 95-99〕 Tlalocan was also reckoned as the 9th level of the Underworld, which in the interpretation by Eduard Seler was the uppermost underworld in the east.〔http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/america/am-moff4.htm (Fig. 1)〕
As a destination in the Afterlife, the levels of heaven were reserved mostly for those who had died violent deaths,〔Those dying of "natural causes", i.e. the majority, would instead endure a perilous journey through the layers of the Underworld to finally reach Mictlan, the lowest layer. See Miller and Taube (1993:178).〕 and Tlalocan was reserved for those who had drowned or had otherwise been killed by manifestations of water, such as by flood, by diseases associated with water, or in storms by strikes of lightning. It was also the destination after death for others considered to be in Tlaloc's charge, most notably the physically deformed.〔See for example the Vaticanus A Codex, per Miller and Taube (''op. cit.'')〕
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