It had been dead for 500 years and ... López Luján noticed that the god depicted held a rabbit, with ten dots above it, in its clawed right foot. In the Aztec writing system, 10-Rabbit is ...

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 noise may have also represented the Aztec wind god Ehecatl or the god of death ... They have a symbolic nature related to the dead and the underworld. There is still a lot to uncover about ...