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 ...

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The Aztec death whistle sounds were also played to human listeners while their brains were being recorded. Brain regions belonging to the affective neural system responded strongly to the sound ...

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New details on human sacrifices made to the Aztec god of rain Tlaloc, were discussed at an event organized by the Mexican ...

Some scholars suggest they were used in sacrificial ceremonies to symbolize the wind or guide souls to the afterlife. It is also believed that the noise they produced was meant to evoke the Aztec wind ...

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 ...

On the other hand, in Tenochtitlan, [the Franciscan friar Bernardino de] Sahagún wrote that, when young Aztecs were born, it was said, ‘you were born here, but you will die on the battlefield, where ...

The term "God complex" is used to describe a person who believes they have exceptional power or authority and are superior to others. It is not considered a mental illness on its own, per the ...

In digging up ancient Aztec graves dating from the years 1250 to 1521 AD, archaeologists have found many examples of small whistles made of clay and formed into the shape of a skull. These ...

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.

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