Five hundred years have passed since the death of Cuauhtémoc, the last ruler of the Aztec Empire. To commemorate this ...
Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for ... grisly procedure that nevertheless “saved the mother from death.” The Aztec believed babies who died during labor traveled to a place ...
The Aztec Death Whistle. If hell has a sound, I bet it sounds a lot like the Aztec Death Whistle. The Aztec Death Whistle sounds like a shriek of death mixed with howling wind. It's so unnerving, that ...
"The Aztec didn't impose their religion. They just wanted the products ... The emperor had responded by putting the ruler to death. At Ahuitzotl's funeral, 200 of his slaves were selected ...
Aztec religion was polytheistic ... god and the patron god of the earth who represented the cycle of life and death. People often depicted her as a fearsome figure with a serpent skirt, meant ...