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Quiateot

Quiateot is the name of a rain deity in the mythological traditions of the pre-Columbian and contact-era Nicarao people, an Indigenous grouping on the periphery of the Mesoamerican cultural area, located in present-day Nicaragua.

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Quiateot is the name of a rain deity in the mythological traditions of the pre-Columbian and contact-era Nicarao people, an Indigenous grouping on the periphery of the Mesoamerican cultural area, located in present-day Nicaragua.

His father and mother are the supreme deities Omeyateite (Ometeotl) and Omeyatecigoat (Omecihuatl), respectively.1

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  1. Joyce, Thomas Athol (1916). Central American and West Indian Archaeology. G.P. Putnam's sons. p. 19. Retrieved 8 July 2015. Quiateot.
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