Aztec Prayer to Tlaloc (Pre-Conquest) written by Ernesto Chavez focuses on the literary culture of the Mexica who we know now them as Aztecs. It talks about Franciscan named Bernardino de Sahagun who orchestrated a project to interview Indian elders about their former lives, the work became known as the Florentine Codex. Specifically, it talks about Tlaloc the god of rain who is a fertility god, but also a wrathful deity. The prayers to the god are very symbolic, it showed how much they cared for their god and the trust they placed it him. Not only did they pray for themselves, they spoke for the animals and the earth itself. The foreboding feeling from reading the prayer makes one wonder how much of an effect it could have not only for the
