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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles ... For instance, in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), Egon Spengler had such a whistle in his secret laboratory collection.

Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice victims for their journey to the underworld. When you purchase through links ...

The Aztec death whistle sounds were also played to human listeners while their brains were being recorded. Brain regions belonging to the affective neural system responded strongly to the sound ...

Religious service attendance at age 12 emerged as the top predictor of adult afterlife belief, especially in secular societies, while childhood adversity and maternal bonds also played subtle roles.

Many ancient cultures used musical instruments in ritual ceremonies. Ancient Aztec communities from the pre-Columbian period of Mesoamerica had a rich mythological codex that was also part of ...