People revered Huitzilopochtli, known as the Aztec sun god and the patron god of the Aztecs, as the god of war, sun and human sacrifice. A central deity in their religious practices ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved ...

In Aztec cosmology, López Luján knew ... The mountain was the site of a cosmological soap opera: The newly born sun god Huitzilopochtli slew his warrior sister, the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui ...

Here, in this store of unborn souls, they waited until the gods decided ... Eclipses, the Aztec believed, threatened pregnancy. The Tzitzimitl—astral deities visible when the sun was in eclipse ...

The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to the underworld every night.