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 ...

including a piece carved from copal resin that features wooden adornments painted in blue and depicting a mythical helper of the Aztec rain god Tlaloc. It holds a serpent scepter evoking the crack ...

Neither Aztec nor Nahua describe a single group of ... these four gods created many others, including the rain god, Tlaloc. He and Huitzilopochtli were the most venerated among the Mexica, and ...

For the Aztec community in the Basin of Mexico in ... The sculptures imitated the face of Tlaloc, the Mexica god of rain, archaeologists said. Now, analysis of the bones and the surrounding ...

Tenochtitlán was the ancient capital of the Aztec empire. Excavated between late ... linked to a desperate ritual to honor Tlaloc, the rain god, during a severe drought that ravaged the Basin ...

Aztec capital. According to legend ... (the god who led the Mexica to the island) and Tlaloc, a god of rain and fertility. Fray Diego Durán, a Spaniard who lived in Mexico a few decades after ...

The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god during a devastating drought, researchers have revealed. When you ...

In another scene, water drips from the hands of the Goddess, creating the mountain streams of Tlalocan, the heavenly paradise ruled over by the Aztec rain god, Tlaloc. Scholars have differing ...