Gallery, INAH, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Templo Mayor was the ceremonial and spiritual core of Tenochtitlan, capital of the Mexica Empire—better known as the Aztecs. Now, centuries ...

Recounting the tale of the Spanish conquest, Aztec Rhapsodies tells of heroism, triumph and tragedy in epic verse.

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

This means temples had no powers..." He further reinstated on Tuesday that “our gods and goddesses were not that powerful” while responding to his reported remark on temples of India.

Credit: wikimedia commons / Egisto Sani cc by 2.0 One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? What happened to these seemingly ...

The Aztec civilization was deeply spiritual, with a vast pantheon of gods influencing every aspect ... creation and destruction, embodied by deities like Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and ...

Mayahuel, the single’s namesake, is a female deity of Aztec mythology. Within Mexican cultures of the pre-Columbian, Mesoamerican, Postclassic era of Central Mexico, the goddess Mayahuel was heavily ...

The Greeks and the Romans had many gods and goddesses. These deities were omnipresent, and they played important roles in all aspects of human life. This course will explore how we should understand ...

Ala is a goddess in Igbo mythology from eastern Nigeria. She is the daughter of the elder god Chukwu and wife of Amadioha, the sky deity. She is the mother goddess of the earth, ruler of the ...