Our belief is that these processes are not completely random. Tlaloc, God of the Rain, is more than just the personification of the storm; he represents an Intelligence that, to an extent at least, controls the storms and the rains. What sort of Intelligence this is we cannot say. We do believe, and we feel we have evidence from the world around us, that there are such intelligences.

We believe that many of our Gods and Goddesses were at one time ordinary men and women, who because of their deeds were asked to join the Teteo. In some cases, like Tlaloc and Xipe Totec, that was so long ago that no one remembers. In others, like Huitzilopochtli, it was very recent.

Xipe Totec, our Lord the Flayed