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 ...

but they were of a higher status than non-nobles in Aztec society. They lived in their own neighborhoods in the capital cities and had their own ceremonies, laws, and god, Yacatecuhtli ...

The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god during a devastating drought, researchers have revealed. A mass ...