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 ...

Hygiene and ritual marked every moment of life for pregnant Aztec women ... the highest heaven of all. Here, in this store of unborn souls, they waited until the gods decided to place them ...

reemerged as the sun and commanded fellow gods to replicate his sacrifice to bring movement to the world. All complied but Xólotl, a deity associated with the evening star, who fled.