Cocijo is a rain, thunder and lightning god, and among the most important Zapotec gods. Huamelulpan means “flying hill” in Nahuatl, the Aztec language. Like the name says, Huamelulpan was ...

Mitla, meaning place of the dead, was a city in Mexico linked to the Zapotec god of death known as Pitao Bezelao. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the 1500s, they built a church ...

Though Monte Alban collapsed, the Zapotec culture remains just as distinctive today. Religious worship at Monte Alban was based on ancestor worship and a pantheon of gods. The pottery figure seen here ...

Named the "place of the dead," Mitla once housed Zapotec royalty, worshipping death god Pitao Bezelao, but was transformed under Spanish rule in the 16th century. Mitla's main temple was ...