name, e.g., the Maya version was known as Chaac and the Zapotec deity as Cocijo. Chalchiuhtlicue, or "she of the jade skirt" in Nahuatl, was the deity connected...

Valley Zapotecs, the primary god was Pitao Cozobi who was associated with maize and agriculture. Other gods include, Cocijo the god of rain and lightning (similar...

whose characteristics were similar to the contemporary effigies of Pitao Cocijo produced by the Zapotecs of Los Valles. During the Classic period, Lowland...

polytheistic. Some known deities were Cocijo, the rain god (similar to the Aztec god Tlaloc); Coquihani, the god of light; and Pitao Cozobi, the god of maize. Zapotec...