Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often ... to believe that they were related to the afterlife. When archaeologists blew into these ...

When it lived with the indigenous people when it first came out of the jungle it would have had a very religious significance It was something they had never seen before And they would have been ...

It’s an ode to the afterlife and a reminder that death is ... Skulls were a powerful symbol in the Aztec culture, and some were used as tribute to Mictecacihuatl, the goddess of death.

In Aztec lore, both skulls and owls are strongly associated with death, leading to the idea that these whistles were somehow related to the afterlife. It wasn’t until 1999, however, that a death ...