The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally significant even today. Once central to the Aztec religion, these deities ...

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

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.

Before the Spaniards conquered Mexico-Tenochtitlan in the 16th century, axolotl may not have had archeological representations as did Tláloc — god of rain in the Aztec worldview — or ...

According to Aztec belief, the Dog of Xolotl was created by the god to guard the living and guide the souls of the dead through the dangers of Mictlán, the Underworld. 2:30 ...

Xolotl was a god associated with the underworld, lightning, and death. Aztec mythology holds that a Xoloitzcuintli led the souls of the dead into the underworld.

The Xolotl was designed by Michael Rodriguez, one of only two Americans to ever graduate the Irish Army Ranger Wing Sniper Course. He named the knife after the Aztec god of fire and lightning, and his ...

Also, a god known as Xolotl—sometimes depicted with the head of a dog—had strong ties to the underworld. Whether the Aztecs associated the buried dogs with such symbolism is still unknown.

In ancient Mexico, they were highly respected in Aztec mythology. Legend has it that Xolotl, the god of fire and lightning, changed into an axolotl to avoid being sacrificed.