Topiltzin’s reign was sabotaged by the devotees of the Aztec “devil” Tezcatlipoca, “Smoking Mirror,” a trickster god of war and human sacrifice. As the story goes, Tezcatlipoca appeared ...

The archaeologists also have detected a sculpture that could be of the Aztec rain god Tlaloc, or of the god of the sky and earth Tezcatlipoca. In addition, the dig has turned up five skulls and a ...

The Aztec civilization was deeply spiritual, with a vast pantheon of gods influencing every aspect ... Huitzilopochtli, and Tezcatlipoca. Rituals, including human sacrifices, played a crucial ...