Our next stop is Mictlan, the enigmatic realm of the Aztec underworld. Our expedition commences with the Nine Layers of Mictlan, each representing a distinct stage of the soul's passage. The souls ...

Xolotl was the Aztec god of lightning and death, often appearing as a dog-headed deity. He was a guide for souls on their journey to the afterlife, and people associated him with the planet Venus ...

Legend has it the axolotl was not always an amphibian. Long before it became Mexico’s most beloved salamander and efforts to prevent its extinction flourished, it was a sneaky god. “It’s an ...

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.

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. One of the most ancient dog ...

The name Xoloitzcuintli is derived from the dog-headed Aztec god Xolotl. Xolotl was a god associated with the underworld, lightning, and death. Aztec mythology holds that a Xoloitzcuintli led the ...

The term Xoloitzcuintle comes from the Aztec language Nahuatl. ‘Xólotl’ means strange and itzcuintli signifies dog. In the old Mexican belief system, Xolotl was the god of transformation ...