The Aztec civilization may have peaked more than 500 years ago, but all the Aztec gods and goddesses remain culturally significant even today.

In fact, the mask's raised turquoise may depict the wart-faced god Nanahuatzin, who, according to Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun. Kristina Killgrove ...

The skull-shaped body of the Aztec death whistle may represent Mictlantecuhtli ... Mictlantecuhtli ruled Mictlan, the place where the souls of the dead resided according to Aztec mythology. The visual ...

The skull shape, for instance, might allude to the Aztec god of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli. Aztec death whistles don't fit into any existing Western classification for wind instruments ...

Another theory is that the skull-like shape is an allusion to Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the underworld, and that the Death Flute may have been used in religious practices or ceremonies.

Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited ... have been symbols of Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind who “traveled to the ...

But in the forests of central Mexico, a single note from an Aztec whistle didn’t always indicate celebration — it meant death. “Death whistles,” or Aztec skull whistles, were short ...

Ranging from a threatening hiss to a blood-curdling scream, the sound of the Aztec death whistle is as creepy ... to symbolize Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind. "[Ehecatl] traveled to the underworld ...

ANCIENT Aztec 'death whistles' have a strange 'uncanny ... suggested the sounds could symbolise aspects of Aztec mythology. For example, the shrill, high-pitched sounds could have represented ...