Known as the "Aztec death whistle," this object is an ancient Mesoamerican wind instrument typically crafted into the shape ...

Cihuacoatl, aspect of the goddess of fertility ... a grisly procedure that nevertheless “saved the mother from death.” The Aztec believed babies who died during labor traveled to a place ...

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.