Mixtec culture
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The Mixtec culture was a pre-Columbian archaeological culture, corresponding to the ancestors of the Mixtec people; they called themselves Ñuu savi, which means "people or nation of the rain". It had
Landscape of the Acatlán valley, near San Jerónimo Xayacatlán (Lowland Mixteca Poblana).
Landscape of La Mixteca, near Nativitas Monte Verde (Oaxaca)
Page 37 of the Codex Vindobonensis Mexicanus I. The central scene represents, supposedly, the origin of the Mixtecs from a tree that gave birth to the ancestors of this people.
Red-on-Bayo pottery from the Highland Mixteca. Middle Preclassic Period. MNA Collection.
Dzahui
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In Mixtec mythology, Dzahui is the god of rain, for whom child sacrifices were performed on hilltops during times of drought, disease, and harvest.
Mixtec culture
…of the Apoala tree. One of these sons defeated the Sun and won the land for the Mixtec people. The main deity of the Mixtecs in pre-Hispanic times was Dzahui, god of rain and patron of the Mixtec nation. Another divinity of great importance was Nine Wind-Coo Dzahui, civilizing hero who gave them the knowledge…
Dzahui, Mixtec god of rain.