Explore Aztec Mythology
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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 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, whose name means "Blue Hummingbird on the Left," was the Aztec god of the ...
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For the Aztecs, who lived in central Mexico, Tonatiuh was a Sun god. Aztecs believed that four ...
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Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli was an Aztec god whose symbols were the planet Venus and the feathered ...
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The Pleiades were known to the Aztecs as Tianquiztli which means "marketplace." The Aztecs ...
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A new study shows that water might have been present very early in the formation of Earth. Before this new information, scientists thought water came to Earth from comets. Scientists have learned this...
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