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Huitzilopochtli

(Latin for "Huitzilopochtli, the Mexicans' highest god.")

Huitzilopochtli was the Aztec god of war and of the sun. They ritually murdered thousands of people to satisfy his thirst for blood, before they were mostly wiped out in the 16th century.

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