The eight levels of the Mictlan, described on a sheet of the Codex Vaticanus A or Codex Rios. Mictlan is the underworld of Aztec mythology, and it serves as the last destination for most departed ...

“These ceremonies included visual and sonic iconographic elements of mythological deities of the Aztec underworld, which may also be symbolized in the Aztec death whistle.” Researchers said ...

Xolotl didn’t bring death to the Aztecs. Rather, he was a psychopomp, or someone who guided souls to Mictlan, the Aztec Underworld. In the culture’s mythology, dogs were also believed to help their ...

She was apparently born and then sacrificed when she was an infant. Aztec depictions of this underworld deity tend to be salient. Her paintings are full of symbolism that reflects the ancient people’s ...

The spirits would travel from the alternate afterlives and the mortal world. Mictlán, the underworld of Aztec mythology, was thought to be divided into nine regions, depending on how the deceased ...

The obsidian mirror was the primary accessory of the supreme Aztec deity Tezcatlipoca ... a powerful animal believed capable of crossing between the earthly realm and the underworld. Tezcatlipoca is ...