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.

People revered Huitzilopochtli, known as the Aztec sun god and the patron god of the Aztecs, as the god of war, sun and human sacrifice. A central deity in their religious practices ...

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 ...

Treasure trove of Aztec war sacrifices including a child who was slaughtered to please the gods discovered in Mexico City could lead to emperor’s long-lost royal tomb ...

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 ...