* Patolli, a board game originating in Mesoamerica played by the ancient Aztec

Several other sports may have taken place here, such as lawn bowls, croquet and possibly a version of the Aztec game called ' tlachtli ' ( scoring a ball through a hoop using your hips ).

In the Aztec campaign of the PC game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors, the player plays as Cuauhtémoc, despite the name Montezuma for the campaign itself, and Cuauhtémoc narrates the openings and closings to each scenario.

Grim Fandangos world combines elements of the Aztec belief of afterlife with style aspects of film noir, including The Maltese Falcon, On the Waterfront and Casablanca, to create the Land of the Dead, through which recently departed souls, represented in the game as calaca-like figures, must travel before they reach their final destination, the Ninth Underworld.

The game combines several Aztec beliefs of the afterlife and underworld with 1930s Art Deco design motifs and a dark plot reminiscent of the film noir genre.

The Aztec motifs of the game were influenced by Schafer's decade-long fascination with folklore and talks with forklorist Alan Dundes, with Schafer recognizing that the four-year journey of the soul in the afterlife would set the stage for an adventure game.

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 ( video game ), a game for the Apple II personal computer

* Aztec Adventure: The Golden Road to Paradise, a game for the Sega Master System console

He went on to design the highly acclaimed Grim Fandango, a noir adventure game set in the Aztec afterlife featuring characters similar to the papier-mâché skeleton decorations from the Mexican holiday Dia De Los Muertos.

Anthropologist E. Adamson Hoebel ( 1966 ) said the Aztec patolli derives from the East Indian game of pachisi., but in R. Barry Lewis of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois ( 1988 ) said the convergence between the two games has to due with the limitations of a board game, meaning the two games were independently derived.

The snakes represent the ball game marker called the tlaxmalacatle in Aztec times.

The Aztec Bowl is an NCAA-sanctioned college division / minor ( prior to 1973 ) or Division III ( since 1973 ) post-season bowl game that has been played intermittently since at least 1950.

Descended from the Aztec version of the Mesoamerican ballgame, the game is one of the oldest continuously-played sports in the world, and is also notable for the fact that it is the oldest known game utilizing a rubber ball.

Interior of Qualcomm Stadium before San Diego State Aztecs football | SDSU Aztec football game

As a senior he had 4. 5 sacks and 36 tackles, was a defensive captain, won Aztec Outstanding Defensive Lineman honors, an All-Western Athletic Conference second team selection, and was chosen to play for the West squad in the East-West shrine game.

In 1967 and 1968 the Aztec run defense allowed just 80. 1 and 100. 1 yards per game, still fourth and fifth, respectively in school annals after nearly forty years.

The game features Egypt ( in tutorial level ), Norse ( in demo ), Aztec, Japanese, and Greek tribes.

In the second game, monkeys could be seen in the story level called Aztec Ruins and there was a multiplayer mode called " Monkey Assistant " where the player in last place was aided by monkeys.

The game starts in the mid fifteenth century and allows for the player to make historical discoveries such as the New World or a route to India as well as conquer civilizations like the Aztec and Inca Empire.

Once a ship was speared and became stuck, Aztec warriors hiding in the reeds would board the vessel and kill its crew.

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

Whorf considered using the money to travel to Mexico to procure Aztec manuscripts for the Watkinson library, but Tozzer suggested he spend the time in Mexico documenting modern Nahuatl dialects.

" Chicano " may be a Hispanized word for " Chichen " or the Mayan descendants, not limited to Aztec descendants or Nahuatl people.

Air is represented in the Aztec religion by a snake to the Scythians, a yoke to the Hindus and for Greeks as a sword and in Christian iconography as mankind.

Noting that using a word with caca in it to describe a thick, brown beverage would not have gone over well with most speakers of Spanish due to the fact that caca means faeces in Spanish, the Coes suggest that the Spanish colonisers combined the Nahuatl atl with the Yucatec Maya chocol, for unlike the Aztec, the Maya tended to drink chocolate heated.

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 ).

The historical figure of Marina has been intermixed with Aztec legends ( such as La Llorona, a woman who weeps for lost children ).

The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tollan ( Nahuatl for Tula ) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word " Toltec " came to take on the meaning " artisan ".

What the Aztec initially lacked in political power, however, they made up for with ambition and military skill.

Historian James Lockhart suggests that the people needed to have a scapegoat for the Aztec defeat, and Moctezuma naturally fell into that role.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

Writings from Aztec priests reveal them to be strong panentheists who considered the common mythology to be a symbolic oversimplification meant to be easier for the commoners to understand.

The state religion of the Aztec civilization awaited the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy: that the wandering tribes would find the destined site for a great city whose location would be signaled by an Eagle eating a snake while perched atop a cactus.

In Aztec cosmology, the four corners of the universe are marked by " the four Tlalocs " () which both hold up the sky and functions as the frame for the passing of time.

* The Aztec New Fire ceremony is held for the last time ( according to Bernardino de Sahagún ).

Anahuac ( Nahuatl: Ānāhuac ) is an ancient name for a Mesoamerican, particularly Aztec, area or areas, usually identified as located within or even coterminous with the Valley of Mexico.

While at SDSU, he wrote for the student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, at times penning so many articles that the paper was jokingly referred to as the " Daily Joe ".

The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tōllān ( Nahuatl for Tula ) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word " Tōltēcatl " ( singular ) or " Tōltēcatl " ( plural ) came to take on the meaning " artisan ".

In recent decades the historicist position has fallen out of favor for a more critical and interpretive approach to the historicity of the Aztec mythical accounts based on the original approach of Brinton.

When the Spanish invaded the Aztec empire in what is now Mexico, they were quick to exploit the color for new trade opportunities.

The prologue has Indiana retrieving an Aztec relic for a professor in Mexico and features the circus train.

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.

To the Aztec, the Toltec were the originators of all culture ; " Toltecayotl " was a synonym for culture.