The Aztec deity Xolotl was seen as the twin brother of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent god linked with life and light. In many ways, Xolotl was Quetzalcoatl’s opposite. He was associated with ...

Upon death, a person was thought to move to Chicunamictlán, the Land of the Dead. It took the soul many years and nine more difficult levels to reach Mictlán, the last resting place and the underworld ...

Mictlan, formed from Nahuatl terms "micqui" (death) and "tlan" (place, location), translates to "place of the dead" in Aztec mythology. It is the underground regions where the dead must go to free ...

The noise may have also represented the Aztec wind god Ehecatl or the god of death, Mictlantecuhtli. There have also been claims that the whistles were used during warfare to strike fear into the ...

The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to the underworld every night.