The white tassels hanging from this Tlaloc's headdress do not appear in standard representations of this deity elsewhere at the site, which makes this version an iconographic variant with its own identity. In the Teotihuacan symbolic palette, white was associated with wind, clouds, and certain states of transition between cosmic planes. If the tassels represent clouds—the visible form water takes before becoming rain—then this Tlaloc is not just the god of the storm but the god in the moment before it: the deity in its phase of accumulation before the discharge. Its small format, unusual for representations of Tlaloc, which tend toward larger scale, and its rhythmic alternation with the stepped merlons suggest this image was not meant to be contemplated in isolation but as part of a repeated pattern—a frieze in which the deity appears and disappears in a rhythm that may itself be a representation of the cycle: the rain that comes, falls, and accumulates again.