Tlaloques

<div style="background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, black 20%, #EA900E 80%); background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,black), color-stop(100%, #EA900E)); background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, black 0%, #EA900E 100%); background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, black 0%, #EA900E 100%); background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, black 0%, #EA900E 100%); margin:5px 0 10px 0; padding:10px; border:2px solid white; border-radius:25px; font-size:130%; color:#FFF; text-shadow:1px 1px 4px #000; padding:10px"> Tlaloques, or Rain Dwarves, lived in the mountains. They were not gods. They were four, representing the four cardinal points. Tlaloc stored the water collected by the tlaloques on the hills and mountains. On Tlaloc's orders, they broke the jugs containing water, thus producing thunders and rain. For that, they used their rattlestaffs, symbols of strength and fertility.

According to some interpretations, the four jugs carried by the four tlaloques contained respectively the rain, the frost, the drought and the disease.

They can be compared to the Mountain Goblins of Japanese folklore.