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Lowry's reading of Lewis Spence, The Gods of Mexico, furnished his book with a number of details concerning the pre-history of Mexico and the Toltec pantheon.
   
Tlaloc Xochipilli
   
"- forgetting, of course, the Miztecs, the Toltecs, Quetzelcoatl -" – UTV, 299.

Quetzelcóatl, the Plumed Serpent, was the most powerful of the gods in the pantheon of Teotihuacán, the city which dominated the central highlands of Mexico from 200 B.C. until 1000 A.D. The illustration depicts the wall of stone images of Quetzalcóatl and the rain god Tlaloc at the temple of Quetzelcóatl, Teotihuacán.