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

Reuters reports that the finds include the body a 9-year-old boy dressed as Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war. The Aztecs made human sacrifices to the deity, who was also the god of the Sun.

Archaeologists have unearthed skeletons of a sacrificed boy dressed as the Aztec war god Huitzilopochtli, a stone box with that god’s emblem containing a sacrificed jaguar and a set of flint ...

The sacrificial offerings include richly adorned jaguar dressed as a warrior and a young boy, dressed to resemble the Aztec war god and solar deity. A set of flint knives elaborately decorated ...

The tower stood on the corner of the chapel of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. In a typical ritual, sacrificial victims would be taken to the top of the temple ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] A huge offering of over 160 starfish was made to an Aztec war god over 500 years ago, archeological findings in ...