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 mask depicts Xiuhtecuhtli, Aztec god of fire and renewal Crafted from wood, turquoise mosaic, and cinnabar lining Displayed at the British Museum, reflecting Aztec rituals ...

The skull shape, for instance, might allude to the Aztec god of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli. Aztec death whistles don't fit into any existing Western classification for wind instruments ...

Their prevalence in gravesites led researchers to suspect that these petrifying piccolos may have been symbols of Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind who “traveled to the underworld to obtain the ...

The first whistle was recovered in the ancient Tlatelolco temple, which was devoted to the Aztec god of wind, Ehecatl, an important deity for the Aztecs. It is possible that the wind-like nature of ...

Some of them were associated with ritual burials. Given this, and their results, Frühholz and team suspect the whistles may have been designed to symbolize Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind. "[Ehecatl] ...

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 ...

Another theory is that the skull-like shape is an allusion to Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the underworld, and that the Death Flute may have been used in religious practices or ceremonies.

Others suggest that its howling, wind-like tones might symbolize Ehecatl, the Aztec god of wind, who, according to Mesoamerican mythology, ventured into the underworld to retrieve the bones of a ...

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