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Aztec/Mexica Gods
Two Aztec gods, Codex Laud
Welcome to our section on Aztec/Mexica Gods! Here we profile some of the most important gods for you, and provide a downloadable feature for each one, beautifully produced and researched for us by Julia Flood.
Seven Snake: goddess of maize...... and lucky day to be born on!
Ritual blood offerings -‘human sacrifice’ or ‘debt payment’?
Huehueteotl - fundamentalMexica-Aztec god of the hearth
Experts survey: Which was the firstgod you ever learned about?
Tlazolteotl formed part of the conceptof a Mexica mother goddess...
An engaging short introductionto Mexica/Aztec religion...
‘Through deity impersonation, a humancould become one with the gods’...
Mexica gods were depicted visuallyin very different ways...
The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun godan animation video by Kay Almere Read
Did the mysterious Ometeotl(duality deity) actually exist...?
Does anyone know the namesof all the Aztec gods?
He’s here! Our new God of the Month- Quetzalcóatl!
A gallery of portraitsof leading Mexica deities
One Spanish chronicler claimed the Aztecs had2,000 gods! We name the key ones...
Most Mexica deities were broadly linkedto specific cities, towns, or neighbourhoods
What happened to Aztec/Mexica godsafter the Spanish Conquest? (1)
Are the Virgin of Guadalupeand Tonanztin the same?
The Aztec wind god was so aerodynamiche just blew your mind...
The Terrible TzitizimimeMonsters of the Celestial Vault
The Aztec goddess of youth beauty and love- was anything but a soft touch...
Xochiquetzal -- you should love her to bits!
Our Lord the Flayed One’ -- was one of the oldest Aztec gods
Tlaloc the rain god was worshipped in Mesoamericalong before the Aztecs had settled in the central highlands...
There’s something about those goggle eyes...!
Huitzilopochtli -- the one truly Aztec god
Big T’s character was as dark...... as a Smoking Mirror
Our Grandmother’ -and Mother of the Gods
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Two Aztec gods, Codex Laud
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