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

was dedicated to him during spring during the Aztec period. Melitón Tapia, INAH Experts identified the sculpture as Xipe Tótec - a significant God from the pre-Hispanic era It involved selected ...

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 ...

A Xipe Totec figure is also part of the haul, depicting the Aztec god of agriculture and warfare. Another pair of pieces, a feathered rattlesnake made of stone and an anthropomorphic turtle ...