Aztecs - Religion, Gods, and Mythology

What did the Aztecs call themselves? (Como se nombraban los Aztecas entre ellos mismos?)

• People of the Earth

• People of the Moon

• People of the Forest

• People of the the Sun

Match the following

• god associated with Magic, Night, and the Earth

• Tezcatlipoca

• god of Life and Wind

• Tlaloc

• god of Rain and Water

• Chicomecoatl

• goddess of Agriculture, Nourishment, and Corn

• Huitzilopochtli

• most fearsome and powerful of the Aztec gods.

• Quetzalcoatl

Who was responsible for offerings and sacrifices?

• Emperor

• Priests

• Council of Four

• Tlaloc

How many human sacrifices happened in a single year

• 100s

• 1,000,000s

• 100,000s

• 1,000s

The Aztecs believed that the sun needed the _ of human sacrifice in order to rise each day. 

• bones

• skin

• hair

• blood

How many levels of heaven did the Aztecs believe there were?

• 9

• 13

• 2

• 10