This was one of the more important Aztec festivals, and the people prepared for the whole month.

The festival that became the modern Day of the Dead fell in the ninth month of the Aztec calendar, about the beginning of August, and was celebrated for an entire month.

Tezcatlipoca ( The vowel transliterated here as may in fact have been long or followed by a glottal stop which is sometimes written as an < h ></ ref >) was a central deity in Aztec religion, and his main festival was the Toxcatl ceremony celebrated in the month of May.

Tezcatlipoca ’ s main feast was during Toxcatl, the fifth month of the Aztec calendar.

Quecholli, the 14th veintena, the 20-day Aztec month, was dedicated to Mixcoatl.

The “ flower ” in the center indicates the four cardinal directions and the twenty cherubs in the frame surrounding it represents the days of the month of the Aztec calendar.

This figure was constructed annually and it was richly dressed and fitted with a mask of gold for his festival held during the Aztec month of Panquetzaliztli.

# 1960 ( 7-2-0 ) Lovington 26, Aztec 7

There are a total of 7 areas ( subtracting the DK Isles, the overworld for the game and Hideout Helm ): Jungle Japes, Angry Aztec, Frantic Factory, Gloomy Galleon, Fungi Forest, Crystal Caves, and Creepy Castle.

* Aztec 7, a kit car made by Fiberfab

* Aztec Bowl, costing $ 500, 000, the stadium was dedicated on October 3, 1936 before 7, 500 people, after being completed earlier that year.

* Fiberfab Aztec 7, a loose replica of the Alfa Romeo Carabo concept car ( which has scissor doors ).

* December 12 – The Virgin Mary, in the guise of Our Lady of Guadalupe, allegedly appears to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec convert to Catholicism.

It may have been started by early friars who combined Spanish Catholicism with the December Aztec celebration of the birth of Huitzilopochtli.

6, 1 ; December 1935 ) Featured Montezuma the Third who wanted to establish an Aztec empire using a weapon which caused people to explode.

* 26 December – At around 6: 00 pm local time, a Piper Aztec, registration N444DA, bound for Providenciales International Airport on the island of Providenciales crashes in shallow water off the coast of South Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Although the feast day is 8 December, the crowds come to the church on 13 August to commemorate the apprehension of Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor.

For the Aztec the count by 20s was completely natural.

In the middle and late 19th century, several renowned Mesoamerican scholars, starting with Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, and including Edward Herbert Thompson and Augustus Le Plongeon proposed that Atlantis was somehow related to Mayan and Aztec culture.

Axayacatl ( ( the name means " Water-mask " or " Water-face ") was the sixth Aztec Emperor, a ruler ( tlatoani ) of the Postclassic Mesoamerican Aztec Empire and city of Tenochtitlan, who reigned from 1469 to 1481.

It is also important that the Great Sun Stone, also known as the Aztec Calendar, was carved under his leadership.

Ahuizotl (, ) ( meaning roughly " water dog ") was the eighth Aztec ruler, the Hueyi Tlatoani of the city of Tenochtitlan, son of princess Atotoztli II.

The outcome of the trip to Mexico was Whorf's sketch of Milpa Alta Nahuatl, published only after his death, and an article on a series of Aztec pictograms found at the Tepozteco monument at Tepoztlán, Morelos in which he noted similarities in form and meaning between Aztec and Maya day signs.

At one extreme, anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of Cannibals and Kings, has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins.

While most pre-Columbian historians believe that there was ritual cannibalism related to human sacrifices, they do not support Harris's thesis that human flesh was ever a significant portion of the Aztec diet.

However, the Coes write that xicalli referred to the gourd out of which the beverage was consumed and that the use of a frothing stick ( known as a molinollo ) was a product of creolisation between the Spanish and Aztec ; the original frothing method used by the indigenous people was simply pouring the drink from a height into another vessel.

The Aztec adaptation of the drink was a bitter, frothy, spicy drink called xocolatl, made much the same way as the Mayan chocolate drinks.

Because cacao would not grow in the dry central Mexican highlands and had to be imported, chocolate was an important luxury good throughout the Aztec empire, and cocoa beans were often used as currency.

Cuitláhuac ( c. 1476 – 1520 ) or Cuitláhuac ( in Spanish orthography ; in, honorific form Cuitlahuatzin ) was the 10th tlatoani ( ruler ) of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan for 80 days during the year Two Flint ( 1520 ).

Cuauhtémoc ( also known as Cuauhtemotzin, Guatimozin or Guatemoc ; c. 1495 – 28 February 1525 ) was the Aztec ruler ( tlatoani ) of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521.

The first plane Kaye owned was a Piper Aztec.

In Aztec mythology, the jaguar was considered to be the totem animal of the powerful deity Tezcatlipoca.

La Malinche ( also known as Malinali or Malintzin ) was born in 1496, in a then " frontier " region between the Aztec Empire and the Maya states of the Yucatán Peninsula ).

Aztec religion was based on the belief of the constant offering of human blood to continue functioning ; to meet this need, the Aztec sacrificed thousands of people.

In the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, one of the two shrines on top of the Great Temple was dedicated to Tlaloc.

Scholars trace the origins of the modern Mexican holiday to indigenous observances dating back hundreds of years and to an Aztec festival dedicated to the goddess Mictecacihuatl.

A tzompantli is illustrated to the right of a depiction of an Aztec temple dedicated to the deity Huitzilopochtli ; from Juan de Tovar's 1587 manuscript, also known as the Ramírez Codex.

Though he dedicated himself primarily to the missionary task, his extraordinary work documenting indigenous worldview and culture has earned him the title “ the first anthropologist .” He also contributed to the description of the Aztec language Nahuatl, into which he translated the Psalms, the Gospels and a basic manual of religious education.

However, the station logo depicts a pyramid dedicated to Ehecatl, the Aztec god of wind.

A tzompantli is illustrated to the right of a depiction of an Aztec temple dedicated to the deity Huitzilopochtli ; from Juan de Tovar's 1587 manuscript, also known as the Ramírez Codex.

Its name is dedicated to the Aztec people, due to the resemblance between the plant's shape and certain Aztec sculptures.