Aztec/Mexica Gods

Welcome to our section on Aztec/Mexica Gods! Here we profile some of the most important gods for you, and provide a downloadable feature for each one, beautifully produced and researched for us by Julia Flood.

You can also see our feature on ‘most googled gods’ (‘Search and ye shall find...’) by following the link on our Aztecs homepage (right-hand menu) and our detailed profile of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli (‘The god with the longest name?’) by clicking on Aztefacts on the Aztecs homepage.

NOTE! You can learn a lot more about Aztec/Mexica gods and religion - and what happened to them after the Conquest - by reading Dr. Eleanor Wake’s feature (go to our ‘Spanish Conquest’ section).

BTW, if you’re wondering who the two gods are in the main picture here, you’ll find the answer in the ‘Ask Us’ section...

One Spanish chronicler claimed the Aztecs had

2,000 gods! We name the key ones...

What happened to Aztec/Mexica gods

after the Spanish Conquest? (1)

The Aztec wind god was so aerodynamic

he just blew your mind...

The Terrible Tzitizimime

Monsters of the Celestial Vault

The Aztec goddess of youth beauty and love

- was anything but a soft touch...

Xochiquetzal -

- you should love her to bits!

Our Lord the Flayed One’ -

- was one of the oldest Aztec gods

Tlaloc the rain god was worshipped in Mesoamerica

long before the Aztecs had settled in the central highlands...

There’s something about

those goggle eyes...!

Huitzilopochtli -

- the one truly Aztec god

Big T’s character was as dark...

... as a Smoking Mirror

Our Grandmother’ -

and Mother of the Gods