Sound has the incredible ability to instill a certain kind of emotion into whoever hears it. The soulful call of a loon feels ...

Archaeologists unearthed the first Aztec death whistles, also known as ehecachichtlis, in 1999 while excavating the ...

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ...

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept a ...

Another theory is that the skull-like shape is an allusion to Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the underworld, and that the Death Flute may have been used in religious practices or ceremonies.

Aztec Death Whistles, or Skull Whistles ... They needed prisoners because they believed that the gods must be appeased with human blood and hearts to ensure the sun rose each day.

The skull-shaped body of the Aztec death whistle may represent Mictlantecuhtli ... The body of these whistles is decorated with a skull shape that could represent Mictlantecuhtli, the Aztec god of the ...

In other words, death whistles are petrifying on a primal ... petrifying piccolos may have been symbols of Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind who “traveled to the underworld to obtain the bones ...

But in the forests of central Mexico, a single note from an Aztec whistle didn’t always indicate celebration — it meant death. “Death whistles,” or Aztec skull whistles, were short ...

When all sounds were compared, those made by death whistles were categorized ... may have been designed to symbolize Ehecatl, the Aztec God of Wind. "[Ehecatl] traveled to the underworld to ...

A terrifying ancient instrument known as the Aztec death whistle, which produces a ... Earliest inscription declaring 'Jesus is God' discovered in Israel Some experts suggested they may have ...