The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally ...

Discover the ancient power of Aztec God mushrooms - the sacred "flesh of the gods" that opens the third eye to divine realms.

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ...

Here, in this store of unborn souls, they waited until the gods decided to place them in their mother’s belly. Aztec adults also firmly believed in the divine supervision of childbirth ...

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.

"There were several Aztec gods that were represented by skulls, so they were probably invoking these gods. I don't think they were supposed to have specific powers or anything like that." ...

Worship of the God, who represents fertility and regeneration, is known to have later spread throughout Mesoamerica during Aztec times. The INAH say the 85cm (33in) ceramic effigy of the god was ...

It wasn't until 1978 that the temple dedicated to the Aztec gods Huitzilopochtli and Tláloc (gods of war and water) was unearthed in the heart of Mexico City. Today, the area remains an active ...

Legend has it that their namesake — the Aztec god of fire and lightning, Xolotl — disguised himself as a salamander to avoid sacrifice. The axolotl is so culturally revered in Mexico that the ...