For this reason, our warriors were on guard at the Eagle Gate. The sentries from Tenochtitlan stood at one side ... From Miguel LeonPortilla, ed., The Brohen Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest ...
But in the forests of central Mexico, a single note from an Aztec whistle didn’t always indicate celebration — it meant death. “Death whistles,” or Aztec skull whistles, were short ...