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Coatlicue, whose name means "Serpent Skirt," was the Earth goddess of the Aztecs. Aztecs were ...
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Tlaloc was an important deity of rain and fertility of the Aztec mythology. Aztec people were ...
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Coyolxauhqui was the Moon goddess according the Aztec mythology. Her name means "Golden Bells." ...
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Huitzilopochtli, was the Aztec god of the Sun and the war. He was a blue man fully armed with ...
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For the Aztecs, who lived in central Mexico, Tonatiuh was a Sun god. He was in charge of the ...
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Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli was an Aztec god. The planets Venus and the feathered snake, Quetzalcoatl ...
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The Pleiades were known to the Aztecs as Tianquiztli which means "marketplace." The Aztecs ...
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The Earth's mantle is a rocky, solid shell that is between the Earth's crust and the outer core. The mantle is made up of many different reservoirs that have different chemical compositions. Scientists...
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