Explore Aztec Mythology
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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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Geologists have learned that a large earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people on September 29, 2009 in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga was in fact a triple-whammy. The magnitude 8.1 "great earthquake"...
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