People revered Huitzilopochtli, known as the Aztec sun god and the patron god of ... People also considered this Aztec god to be a symbol of fertility and creation. Quetzalcoatl played a central ...

The Egyptian sun god Ra was said to sail his boat across the sky by day and carry it back through the underworld by night. This depiction of Ra is from the tomb of Nefertari. The Aztec sun god ...

1790: __Workers doing repairs in Mexico City unearth a massive stone bearing ancient symbols ... Eagle Bowl or simply the Sun Stone — for the sun god Tonatuih, whose visage appears at the ...

The darker turquoise mosaic pieces on the cheeks and nose of the mask appear to form a butterfly, another symbol ... Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun.