The noise may have also represented the Aztec wind god Ehecatl or the god of death ... They have a symbolic nature related to the dead and the underworld. There is still a lot to uncover about ...

The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to the underworld every night.