(WWTI) — On October 31, we celebrate Halloween. A day of scares, candy, the macabre, and all things spooky. The holiday draws on traditions from around the world, from the green hills of Ireland to ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. El Día de los Muertos is celebrated in a big way in central and southern Mexico, in the states of Michoacán, ...

Newbery Medalist Donna Barba Higuera retells the Aztec myth of creation, casting Xolotl, the dog-headed god of lighting, death, and misfortune, as the hero in her middle grade work Xolo, illustrated ...

Aztec religion wove together sky, earth, and underworld through a living pantheon whose powers shaped war, rain, crops, birth, and death. Temples crowned city pyramids, festivals ordered the calendar, ...

In a discovery that would send shivers up your spine, archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History have discovered the first ever shrine dedicated to Mictlantecuhtli, ...

Gods of death — like Anubis of ancient Egypt, the Norse deity Hel, and Mictlāntēcutli, the vicious ruler of the Aztec underworld — have played a key role in the cultures and religions of civilizations ...

Grupo Folklórico Quetzalén presented “Mictlán: A Día de los Muertos Concert,” a blend of stylized performances Oct. 4 and 5 at the Sebastiani Theatre in Sonoma. The shows, which featured more than 50 ...

Deep down in the depths of the Aztec underworld, the land of the dead, is a deity so feared that the Aztec empire would make human sacrifices to appease him. A 6-foot tall, skeletal being, with empty ...

An expert team 20 years in the making with local roots is ready to serve Hell’s Kitchen’s far West Side a refreshingly new spin on contemporary Mexican cuisine at Bartolo’s, wowing the senses from its ...