The archaeologists also have detected a sculpture that could be of the Aztec rain god Tlaloc, or of the god of the sky and earth Tezcatlipoca. In addition, the dig has turned up five skulls and a ...
Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ...
was the capital of the Aztec empire and the site of the Templo Mayor, a temple dedicated to Quetzalcoatl, in addition to Tlaloc, the rain god, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of sun and war.