From jaguars to shooting stars, these rare and meaningful Náhuatl names are steeped in centuries of culture, cosmic symbolism ...

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 ...

If the word “Nahua” sounds unfamiliar to you, it’s probably because you’re more used to hearing them referred to as the Aztec ... these four gods created many others, including the ...

Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. In a typical ritual, sacrificial victims would be taken to the top of the temple where four priests would lay them down on a stone slab.

The California Department of Education has proposed an ethnic studies “model curriculum” that includes, among other things, chanting the names of Aztec gods in an attempt to build unity among ...

Scottie is a Newsweek science fellow and student at the University of Florida. Her work has appeared in Women's Health, the Gainesville Sun and WUFT, an NPR-PBS affiliate. Mexican excavators ...

Beginning in the 14th century, the Aztecs made offerings to their gods there, ritually interring ... a watery domain in the Aztec cosmos.