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

The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally significant even today. News Today's news ...

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.

Scenes on the side show Tizoc dressed as the war god Huitzilopochtli in a headdress of hummingbird feathers and pulling an enemy’s hair (right). Each enemy represents one of the 15 cities ...

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This most likely represents the Aztec hummingbird of the south, Huitzilopochtli—the Aztec god of war. Key offerings for Huitzilopochtli involve bloodletting and ritual sacrifice.

Tenochtitlán was an Aztec city that flourished between A.D. 1325 and 1521. Built on an island on Lake Texcoco, it had a system of canals and causeways that supplied the hundreds of thousands of ...

This most likely represents the Aztec hummingbird of the south, Huitzilopochtli—the Aztec god of war. Key offerings for Huitzilopochtli involve bloodletting and ritual sacrifice.