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 ...

The double-headed serpent is one of the most highly crafted and strangely compelling of these rare Aztec survivals. The serpent is made up of about two thousand tiny pieces of turquoise ...