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{{Short description|Water deity}}
[[file:atlaua - Project Gutenberg eText 14993.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px| Aztec singing (shown with [[speech scroll#Mesoamerica|speech scroll]]s) and dancing presumably to Atlahua God, an illustration from ''Rig Veda Americanus'', an 1890 book on American aboriginal literature]]
In [[Aztec mythology]], '''Atlahua''', '''Ahtlahua''', '''Atlahoa''', '''Atlavâ'''<ref>{{cite web|title=atlahua - GDN - Gran Diccionario Náhuatl - UNAM|url=https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/termino/search?queryCreiterio=atlahua&queryPartePalabra=inicio&queryBuscarEn=nahuatlGrafiaNormalizada&queryLimiteRegistros=50|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160317011027/https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/termino/search?queryCreiterio=atlahua&queryPartePalabra=inicio&queryBuscarEn=nahuatlGrafiaNormalizada&queryLimiteRegistros=50|url-status=live|archive-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> or '''Atlaua''' {{IPA-nah|aˈtɬawa|}} was a water God (the blue version of [[Tlaloc]], the Tlaloc from the South<ref name="Atlahua">{{cite web| title=Atlahua Icuic, Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Veinte himnos sacros de los nahuas, p.216 |url=https://www.historicas.unam.mx/publicaciones/publicadigital/libros/veinte_himnos/067_04_21_Atlahua.pdf |language=Spanish }}</ref>), fisherman and archer. There were said to be at least four ancient Aztec temples at which he was worshiped, the tallest supposedly being over 200 feet tall (61 metres) {{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}. The Aztecs prayed to him when there were deaths in water, such as when [[Hernando Cortez]] conquered [[Tenochtitlan]] (the Ancient Aztec capital on a lake, now Mexico City), and the lake was said to be "floating with heads and corpses"{{Citation needed|date=October 2020}}.
The original image appears in  General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray [[Bernardino de Sahagún]]: The Florentine Codex. Book II: The Ceremonies.<ref name="AtlahuaIcuic">{{cite web| title=General History of the Things of New Spain by Fray Bernardino de Sahagún: The Florentine Codex. Book II: The Ceremonies, fo. 144 |url=https://www.wdl.org/en/item/10613/view/1/286/}}</ref>
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