Deep down in the depths of the Aztec underworld, the land of the dead, is a deity so feared that the Aztec empire would make ...

The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally significant even today. Once central to the Aztec religion, these deities ...

At its core, Aztec sacrifice was the act of offering gifts to the gods in the form of blood. As such, its performance was intrinsically rooted in Aztec religion. The Mexica believed that humans had to ...

Mosaic mask of turquoise and lignite covers a human skull and represents an Aztec god, Tezcatlipoca ... Establishing a pattern that would recur throughout his career, Cortés soon found himself ...

In fact, the mask's raised turquoise may depict the wart-faced god Nanahuatzin, who, according to Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun. Kristina Killgrove ...

Then, a team of archaeologists led by Salvador Guillieum Arroyo were exploring the ruins of an ancient Aztec temple in Tlatelolco, Mexico City dedicated to the wind god Ehecatl. It was here that ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) – In the pantheon of Mexico's pre-Hispanic gods, most Aztec deities are depicted as brutal, blood-thirsty beings only appeased by human sacrifices. But Mexico's Templo Mayor ...