Aztec society associated this important Aztec god, also known as the Smoking Mirror, with sorcery, fate and the night sky, ...

Pre-Aztec 'Flayed god' temple uncovered in Mexico Aztec human ... underworld the Aztecs believed the sun travelled through at night before emerging in the east to begin a new day.

The story begins with the Aztec God of death and lightning, the Xolotl. As legends have it, he was a monstrous dog that guarded the sun god and ushered souls to the underworld every night.