Deep down in the depths of the Aztec underworld, the land of the dead, is a deity so feared that the Aztec empire would make ...

All powers good and dangerous flow from this god, so old that he was worshipped before the Aztecs gave him this name ... one into the heavens and the other, on the crown of his head, spewing ...

To honor the spring god Xipe, Aztec priests flayed human beings and ... as the Inquisition destroyed heretics in Spain. Instead, Crown & Church at first tried to make good Christians and Spanish ...

Whole swaths of the Americas rapidly fell to the Spanish crown, a transformation begun ... lignite covers a human skull and represents an Aztec god, Tezcatlipoca. Photograph by ERICH LESSING ...

THE mystery of an ancient 3,000-year-old "door to hell" dedicated to an Aztec god has been solved after it was stolen from a hidden cave. The Mexican artefact, called the Olmec Cave Mask ...

In fact, the mask's raised turquoise may depict the wart-faced god Nanahuatzin, who, according to Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun. Kristina Killgrove ...

According to local legend, Tepoztēcatl is an Aztec god of pulque, an alcoholic beverage made from agave plants, researchers from the University of Florida say. A temple dedicated to Tepoztēcatl ...

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 ...