Opochtli

Opochtli is the god of everything you use to take food out of a lake. Tenochtitlan was built on one, and a substantial part of the city's diet came out of it — fish, waterfowl, frogs, insect eggs, even the algae they pressed into cakes — so a god who invented the net, the three-pronged harpoon and the snare for catching birds on the water is a god of the local economy. He belongs to the Tlaloque, the rain gods who work under Tlaloc, whose collective the registry does not carry and whose named members it now does.

Domains

• fishing

Relations

• subordinate to: TlalocOne of the Tlaloque. The collective itself is not recorded — this programme does not ingest classes — but its named members are.Reference treatment of Opochtli among the Tlaloque, the rain gods subordinate to Tlaloc. (secondary)

Sources

• Opochtli is a Mexica rain god of the Tlaloque, patron of fishermen and fowlers and credited with inventing the net, the harpoon and the bird-snare.: Reference treatments of Opochtli and of the Tlaloque. (secondary)