The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally significant even today. News Today's news ...

From jaguars to shooting stars, these rare and meaningful Náhuatl names are steeped in centuries of culture, cosmic symbolism, and divine energy.

The Aztec sun god Tonatiuh depicted in the 16th century Codex Telleriano-Remensis. The Aztec believed that human sacrifice was necessary to keep the sun moving through the sky.

Natalie Rivera, an artist from Detroit, paints Detroit wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown as the Aztec Sun God before an NFL football game at Ford Field on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan.

Aztec god watches over Pilsen in brilliantly colored mural buzzing with hummingbirds ... The Chicago Sun-Times is free to all, thanks to readers like you.

Mexican excavators recently found the skeleton of a child sacrificed to Huitzilopochtli, the god of sun and war, at the foot of an Aztec temple.

A man bends down to take a picture of a giant, symbolic sacrificial knife, part of a display of items offered to the Aztec god Xochipilli, at the Templo Mayor museum in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 7 ...