Another piece of mythic information is found in the Song of the Rain-god, the fourth canticle in Sahagun’s collection, which has been translated as follows: I Oh, Mexico has done service with the gods, The paper flags fly over the four corners of the heavens, It is no more a time of mourning. II Oh, Tlaloc (the Rain-god) has been created (I.e. my statue has been set on the temple), My God has become a dark red colour from the blood of the sacrifices. The whole day they took, with the making of rain in the temple court. III O my Chieftain, the maize-prince, In truth it is your produce; You created it first; And yet they only do insult to you. They can have nothing against you; Distribute thou no offering. IV But they abuse me (abstain from sacrifice), I am therefore not satisfied, My father, my old priest, The Jaguar-serpent. V Out of the Tlalocan the turquoise house (the blue house) Came thy father, Acatonal. VI O go, go down on the mountain Poyauhtlan With the mist rattle-board; Water will be sent from Tlalocan, The country of the rain-gods. VII O my elder brother Toxcuecuex! I will go; it is enough to make him weep. VIII O send me to the place that no one knows. Down came his word; I spoke to him, Tetzauhpilli, I will go; that is enough to make him weep. IX After four years he will be placed over us. Of thee it was said, The place of the fallen, The quetzal feather-house, the place of plenty, And yet he becomes distributer for the Kingdom. It would be rash to attempt any precise elucidation of this obscure song. Briefly and doubtfully, I may say, it seems to me that its tendency is as follows: The song evidently refers to one of the festivals of the Rain-god, probably the atemoztli, when much time was occupied in “rain-making” ceremonies, as the canticle indicates. The pious maker of the song had evidently in mind the myth which told how Tlaloc stole the maize from Quetzalcoatl, an assertion to which he objects (verse iii), and advises the god to withhold his produce. This myth, which is given in the Anales de Quauhtitlan (Codex Chimalpopocâ), the second or historical portion, states that Quetzalcoatl discovered maize in the mountain Tonacatepetl. To do so, he took the form of a black ant and was led to the spot by a red ant. As he was unable to lift the mountain, it was split open by the magical prowess of Xolotl in his phase of Nanahuatl and the maize was secured by Quetzalcoatl, but was stolen from him by Tlaloc. In verse iv of the song under discussion Tlaloc replies in agreement with his servant, whom it is, perhaps, that he addresses as Jaguar-serpent, Jaguar (Balam), being a common designation of priests among the Maya-Quiche. [254] Or it may have reference to the god himself, one of whose names is “Nine Jaguar.”