what the ritual purpose of the death whistles could have been. Because the 1999 whistles were found in an Aztec temple dedicated to the wind god Ehecatl, and because of the eerie, wind-like sound ...

“Aztec communities may have specifically capitalized on the frightening and symbolic nature of the death whistle sound to influence the audience of their ritual procedures, based on the ...

Credit: Sascha Frühholz / UZH The so-called Aztec “death whistle” is an instrument distinguished by producing a chilling sound, comparable to a person’s blood-curdling scream, and has been the subject ...

uncovering how the Aztecs may have used sound as a psychological tool during their most sacred and brutal rituals. When blown, the death whistle produces a sound so unsettling that listeners today ...

Aztec Death Whistles have been found in the hands of victims of ritual sacrifice in temples such as the Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl temple in Mexico City. Likewise, the skull imagery synonymous with ...

Aztec communities may have specifically capitalized on the frightening and symbolic nature of the death whistle sound to influence the audience in their ritual procedures, based on the knowledge ...

Archaeologists have discovered numerous ceramic or clay whistles at Aztec sites, dubbed "death whistles" because of their distinctive skull shapes. A new paper published in the journal ...

The Aztecs modeled the death whistle (pictured ... sound nature as well as currently known excavation locations at ritual burial sites with human sacrifices, usage in ritual contexts seems ...