In Aztec cosmology, López Luján knew, this tableau suggested the first level of the underworld ... López Luján noticed that the god depicted held a rabbit, with ten dots above it, in its ...

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.

Mictlán, the underworld of Aztec mythology, was thought to be divided into nine regions, depending on how the deceased died. Within the Mesoamerican region, it is believed a dog guides the ...