She was celebrated throughout the entire ninth month of the Aztec calendar ... The Aztecs appeased these fearsome underworld gods by burying their dead with food and precious objects.

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 ...

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.

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...