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

All are believed to originate from Mexico and ... a professor of anthropology at Arizona State University. "There were several Aztec gods that were represented by skulls, so they were probably ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women ... the highest heaven of all. Here, in this store of unborn souls, they waited until the gods decided to place them ...

For those who aren’t familiar with the Aztec deity, he’s the literal god of human sacrifice ... At the end of it all, the mutilated victims were burned alive. All in the name of multicultural ...