The Aztec god of death and lord of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli ruled over Mictlan, the realm of the dead. People often depicted him as a skeletal figure wearing a skull mask. He ruled ...

Then, a team of archaeologists led by Salvador Guillieum Arroyo were exploring the ruins of an ancient Aztec temple in Tlatelolco, Mexico City dedicated to the wind god Ehecatl. It was here that ...

Aztec mythology tells that Mictecacihuatl was sacrificed ... The Aztecs appeased these fearsome underworld gods by burying their dead with food and precious objects. Archaeologists and historians know ...

The underworld of Aztec mythology was thought to be divided ... Mictlantecuhtli, the god of the dead, and Mictecacihuatl, his wife and the goddess of death, rule the underworld of Mictlán.

The body of these whistles is decorated with a skull shape that could represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the underworld. Mictlantecuhtli ruled Mictlan, the place where the souls of the dead ...

SAN MIGUEL CANOA, MEXICO — Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is one of Mexico’s most ... extend back thousands of years to ancient Aztec Indigenous traditions and are still observed ...

it is the earliest native account of the sufferings of the Aztec people and their defeat 500 years ago in 1521: Our inheritance, our city, is lost and dead. The shields of our warriors could not ...

The Aztecs worshipped many gods and goddesses ... So Day of the Dead comes from a combination of the ancient Aztec custom of celebrating dead ancestors, and the Christian celebrations All Hallows ...

In Aztec culture, death was transitory, and the souls of the dead could return to visit the living. At least two important festivals in the fall would celebrate the dead and invite them back to ...