Worship Dzahui as our Patron God

Dzahui, whose name is the Mixtec word for rain, was the rain god and, before the Spanish conquest, the patron deity of the Mixtecs, who called themselves the people of the rain. Codices show him with the goggle mask and fangs of the central Mexican Tláloc.

His chief cult centre was Achiutla, where his sacred bundle was worshipped. In times of drought, disease and harvest, children were sacrificed to him on hilltops.