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 **Cocijo** is a lightning deity of the pre-Columbian [[zapotec people|Zapotec]] civilization of southern [[Mexico]]. He has attributes characteristic of similar [[mesoamerica|Mesoamerican]] deities associated with [[rain gods|rain]], thunder and lightning, such as [[Tlaloc]] of central Mexico, and [[Chaak]] of the [[Maya]] civilization. In the Zapotec language, the word cocijo means "lightning", as well as referring to the deity. **Cocijo** is a lightning deity of the pre-Columbian [[zapotec people|Zapotec]] civilization of southern [[Mexico]]. He has attributes characteristic of similar [[mesoamerica|Mesoamerican]] deities associated with [[rain gods|rain]], thunder and lightning, such as [[Tlaloc]] of central Mexico, and [[Chaak]] of the [[Maya]] civilization. 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. He is commonly represented on ceramics from the Zapotec area, from the [[mesoamerica#history|Middle Preclassic]] right through to the Terminal Classic. Cocijo is said to be the great lightning god and creator of the world. 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.+Cocijo was the most important deity among the [[pre-Columbian]] Zapotecs because of his association with rainfall. He is commonly represented on ceramics from the Zapotec area, from the [[mesoamerica#pre-classic_period|Middle Preclassic]] right through to the Terminal Classic. Cocijo is said to be the great lightning god and creator of the world. 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.
  
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 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 people|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. 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 people|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 gods|fertility]]. His eyebrows depict the heavens, his lower lids represent clouds, and his forked serpent's tongue represents a bolt of lightning.+Representations of Cocijo combine elements [[jaguar|earth-jaguar]] and [[serpent|sky-serpent]], which are associated with [[fertility gods|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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