Aktzin corresponds with Tláloc to the Aztecs and Chaac or Cabrakán to the Mayas,[2] and is most commonly syncretised with Saint John the Baptist.
In accordance to mesoamerican duality; Aktzin was both life giving and life taking, keen to drown the world as those who died by drowning became his servants; the men forced to dig the river beds, and women forced marry him.
[1] Aktzin was typically depicted as a male figure wearing some form of headdress and rings over his eyes, similar to spectacles.
In one hand he held a hammer or axe which would produce thunder and lightning as it struck the clouds.
The Spanish conquerors led by Hernán Cortés encountered the Totonac civilization in 1519,[3] after their initial contact with the Mayas of the Yucatán Peninsula.