Twelve Old Thunderbolts
Totonac · deity · timeless · Recorded classification
Totonac (Veracruz). English 'Twelve Old Thunderbolts' leads; Totonac Tajín ('thunder/lightning'). A collective of thunder-beings (the storm-spirits of El Tajín), rendered as a deity-class per the schema. Sex male ('old men'). Headed by / overlapping with Aktsini', the Thunder Lord.
Domains
- thunder and storm
- the sea and the rains
Powers
- send the storms from the ruined city
Relations
- companion: Thunder LordReciprocal of totonac_aktsini.companion — Chief thunderer among the old thunder-beings who together loose the rains of the Gulf sierra.Alain Ichon, La religion des Totonaques de la Sierra (1969) (secondary)
Sources
- The Totonac hold that twelve old thunderstorm beings, the Tajín, still inhabit the ruins of El Tajín and govern the rains and storms; they are aged thunder-lords associated with the sea.: Ichon, Alain (1969). La religión de los totonacas de la sierra. México: Instituto Nacional Indigenista. (secondary); Kelly, Isabel & Palerm, Angel (1952). The Tajín Totonac, Part 1. Smithsonian Institution, ISA Publication 13. (secondary)