Pete Buttigieg Decides to Spend More Time with His Family In 1519, when Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico he encountered an Aztec civilization dedicated to the practice of human sacrifice on a ...

Instead of indicating human sacrifice of the Aztecs, the blood red color symbolized Christ’s sacrifice and is associated with the Christmas season. In Mexico, poinsettias in the wild are much ...

where priests offered sacrifices to the Aztec gods as acts of devotion, including flayed human skin and sacrificial blood. Aztec mythology provided a framework for understanding the origins of the ...