a mountain in Central Mexico that may have been a kind of solar timekeeper or Aztec calendar and is now a major archaeological site. One of the most important gods in the Aztec religion ...

Mexican urban legends include some of the scariest myths to have ever told. Here are the most frightening tales from Mexico ...

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 ...

The overlap between kings and gods was very important to the ... from his mythic homeland to the central valley of Mexico at the dawn of the Aztec state. Another glyph, slightly to the left ...

Animals were also revered in Teotihuacán, with evidence that they were given as gifts, sacrificed, or venerated. Many of the animals found in the burial sites were also apex predators at the top of ...

the Aztec god of art, games, beauty, dance and maize (among others). The museum offers a look at how tradition, culture and life were formed in all regions of Mexico, and it also educates visitors ...

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 ...