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

It is believed to be part of a skull rack from the temple to the Aztec god of the sun, war and human sacrifice. Known as the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack stood on the corner of the chapel of ...

The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan ... according to Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun.