Case file · Folklore / legend
Tláloc moves and the rain falls
On 16 April 1964 a 168-tonne stone monolith of a rain deity was hauled from Coatlinchán to the new National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City; that night an unseasonal downpour soaked the crowds.
1964 CE · 19.43, -99.19 · status: account
The account
Coatlinchán residents had tried to stop the removal, and many said the god had brought the rain. The figure is usually identified as Tláloc, though some scholars argue it is the water goddess Chalchiuhtlicue.
The sceptical view
The storm was a coincidence, if a memorable one; April showers are not unknown in the Valley of Mexico.