Aztec and Maya Mythology quiz
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What animal helped Aztec souls cross the river of the dead?
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Into what did people turn when the Aztec water sun ended?
Answer: Fish
Why: That drowned age belonged to Chalchiuhtlicue, the water goddess whose name means 'She of the Jade Skirt'.
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Which name did the Maya of Yucatán give the feathered serpent?
Answer: Kukulkan
Why: Quetzalcoatl is the Aztecs' Nahuatl name for the closely related feathered serpent of central Mexico.
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What seed did Aztecs use for edible statues of Huitzilopochtli?
Answer: Amaranth
Why: Amaranth and honey still make alegría, a Mexican candy whose Spanish name means 'joy'.
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Which light in the sky did Quetzalcoatl's heart become?
Answer: Venus
Why: His twin Xolotl was Venus too, but as the evening star, so the brothers shared one planet.
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How often did the Aztecs put out every fire to renew the world?
Answer: Every 52 years
Why: Every 52 years the 260-day ritual calendar and the 365-day year line up again, a cycle called the Calendar Round.
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How many rabbit gods did the Aztecs link to the drink pulque?
Answer: 400
Why: In Nahuatl, the word for four hundred, centzontli, could also simply mean countless.
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