The word "Coatlicue" is Nahuatl for "the one with the skirt of serpents". She is referred to by the epithets "Mother Goddess of the Earth who gives birth to all celestial things", "Goddess of Fire and Fertility", "Goddess of Life, Death and Rebirth" and "Mother of the Southern St...
The name of the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, literally means “Lord of Mictlan”. In Aztec religion and mythology, Mictlan was the lowest and northernmost section of the underworld and was ruled by Mictlantecuhtli along with his wife, Mictecacíhuatl. Although there were also several...
Mayahuel is the goddess of the maguey plant and of fertility. Protector of mature wombs that turn into life. Mictlancihuatl Mictlancihuatl, Lady of the land of the Death, wife of the Death God Mictlantecuhtli. Mictlantecuhtli Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of Mictlan, the Land of the Death. Pate...
of the arts, poetry, and all things good and beautiful. Lord of Hope and Lord of the Morning Star. He has been likened to England's King Arthur, both a real person and myth. According to the Vienna Codex a series of nine different Toltec kings succeeded the original man/god all callin...
Aztecs had unique concepts of death and afterlife. According to Aztec beliefs, dead people dying of natural causes went to the underworld ruled by Mictlantecuhtli, the god of the underworld, and his wife, Mictecacihuati. As per the Aztec beliefs, she watched over the bones of the dead pe...
Aztec whistles of death are skull-shaped whistles that emit an eerie shriek when blown into. Hundreds had been collected and dismissed as toys, until Roberto Velazquez, a mechanical engineer who has devoted his adult life to researching and recreating the sounds of ancient whistles, brought attenti...
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Itzpapalotlhelped her loverget revenge for the unjust death of Xociphili’s friends at the hands of the sun god Tonatiuh. Xociphili managed to kill Tonatiuh because Itzpapalotl let him borrow her invisible cloak. However, the couple got punished and sent to the paradise of Tlalocan, a real...
One version of the legend related to the hummingbird god Huitzilopochtli compared him to the Sun in the sky. In this version, the stars and the moon were his siblings who were also his rivals. The Sun, Aztecs believed, always chased the moon and the stars and defeated them, just like...
Every atmospheric phenomenon was also associated with a god: to Tlaloc the rains, to Quetzalcoatl Ehecatl the winds. According to the Aztecs, one lives only once, and life is full of both suffering and joy, and the only way to survive after death is to attain fame, although the fame itse...