The Aztec myth begins with the old god Ometoltl (from ome, “dual” and teotl, “divine”), a creator deity whose dual aspects resulted in the binary Ometecuhtli (male) and Omecihuatl (female ...

hinted a new Mexican art piece could be coming in the near future. That piece is Huehueteotl, a clay statue of an Aztec god by Santa Fe artist Hernan Gomez Chavez, who created it during a ...

In 1519 Hernan Cortés sailed from Cuba, landed in Mexico and made his way to the Aztec capital. Miguel Leon­Portilla ... the people asked Motecuhzoma how they should celebrate their god's fiesta. He ...

God is anthropomorphically represented as visiting ... Its best-known version is in the Vienna Art Museum. As with most of Brueghel’s paintings, the scenes are densely populated.

For those who aren’t familiar with the Aztec deity, he’s the literal god of human sacrifice. Oh, and cannibalism. Just to give you a sense of what kind of culture the California Board of ...