The name "Quetzalcoatl" itself is derived from Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, combining "quetzal," referring to the colorful bird renowned ... feathered serpent god. According to Aztec ...

The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally significant even today. Once central to the Aztec religion, these deities ...

It contained an assortment of sacrificial perforators made of jaguar bone, used by Aztec priests to spill their own blood as a gift to the gods. Alongside the perforators were bars of copal ...

Worship of the God, who represents fertility and regeneration, is known to have later spread throughout Mesoamerica during Aztec times. The INAH say the 85cm (33in) ceramic effigy of the god was ...

The Aztecs’ answer to the classic child’s question was that they came from the 13th heaven—the highest heaven of all. Here, in this store of unborn souls, they waited until the gods decided ...

It is believed to be part of a skull rack from the temple to the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. Known as the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack stood on the corner of the chapel of ...

In 1521, the city of Tenochtitlan, magnificent centre of the Aztec empire, fell to the Spaniards and their Indian allies. Inga Clendinnen's account of the Aztecs recreates the culture of that city in ...

A Japanese animal photographer Tadashi Shimada captures crucial photographs of wild birds in Oceania This episode of Shimada filmed in highdefinition focuses on the rare and fascinating Birds of ...

The New York Times called her debut, When My Brother Was an Aztec (2012), an “ambitious… beautiful book ... Diaz’ view registers much more than any one place or background, however. She both embraces ...

Lions star wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown, in full ‘Sun God’ mode, but with a cultural twist. Rivera has made him indistinguishable from the Aztec Sun God Huitzilopochtli. Besides of course, ...

In Fifth Sun, she writes an informative historical account that is a complex and captivating revisionist history of the Aztecs ... the incarnation of Mexica gods, and that Emperor Moctezuma ...