Ahuizotl
c. 1300 CE – 1550 CEattested
Central Mexico
- Mesoamerican
A water creature with a hand at the end of its tail, which it used to drag people underwater. Those it drowned were sacred to Tláloc, and their bodies could only be touched by priests.
Known for
- hand on the tail
- drowning as sacrifice
- sacred to Tláloc
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.