1.   Anyway, I have taken the ultimate step to appease the rain gods.

2.   Many indigenous people today consider Popocatepetl holy and alive, embodiments of both the Aztec rain god Tlaloc and the Roman Catholic St. Gregory.

3.   The rain gods smiled on Tony Stewart again Friday and apparently helped him to his first pole position of the Winston Cup season.

4.   They still hold ceremonies to show reverence for Chaac, the Maya rain god, and for the first corn harvest.

5.   To them, he said, the volcano is a sacred symbol that cannot be fathomed by science, a rain god and a giver of good harvests.

6.   And then the rain god proved the weather forecasters wrong.

7.   One, which dates back thousands of years, involves a pregnant woman dancing in fields, her body draped with leaves, calling on the rain gods.

8.   Others would argue it should have gone to the rain god for his earlier tournament theatrics.

9.   The city mayor and other lawmakers participated in a Hindu ritual worship to the rain god Varuna on Thursday atop one of the reservoirs supplying water to Bombay.

10.   The frog is then released into a pond or river in an attempt to please the rain god Indra.