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Coatlicue, whose name means "Serpent Skirt," was the Earth goddess of life and death in the ...
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Tlaloc was an important deity of rain and fertility in the Aztec mythology. Aztec people were ...
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Coyolxauhqui represents the Moon in the Aztec mythology. Her name means "Golden Bells." She ...
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Huitzilopochtli was the patron deity in Aztec mythology. The Aztecs were an ancient civilization ...
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Most of the astronomical beliefs of the Aztecs of central Mexico are known from the existing ...
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Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli is an Aztec deity representing the planet Venus and an apparition of ...
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The Pleiades were known to the Aztecs as Tianquiztli which means the "marketplace." The Pleiades ...
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