If the Aztecs saw Giza, they would have called Menkaure…

“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“The magnitude of these shattering changes can perhaps be grasped by imagining that the invasion had been in the reverse direction and that the…

— Geoffrey Blainey

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are…

— Jerry Pournelle

“Who could truly set His shield to rest? His throne? His mighty spear? Think on that. Remember it well, O princes. Who could lay…

— David Bowles

“There were car gods there: a powerful, serious-faced contingent, with blood on their black gloves and on their chrome teeth: recipients of human sacrifice…

— Neil Gaiman

“In the place of the bells, where battle is waged, The reeds all lie broken in Chalco today. Dust yellows the air, our houses…

— David Bowles

“The Mexicans have a fervent appreciation of poetry and make regular use of it. It occupies a high and ancient seat in the Mexican…

— Linda Ronstadt

“Now the moon of the Aztecs is at the zenith, and all the world lies still. Full and white, the white of bones, the…

— Cornell Woolrich

“He probably didn’t know Aztecs from Mayans. None of the gods, none of the mythology, none of the names she’d learned since childhood. There…

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

“I still couldn’t banish the image of the Quetzal Flower. In my mind, it merged with that of Priestess Eleuia: everything a man could…

— Aliette de Bodard

“This fifth and final sun will die, Like every sun before— But for a moment we laughed in its light, Like wind-blown petals Sparkling…

— David Bowles

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

— Carlos Fuentes

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

— Les Baxter

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time,…

— A. A. Gill

“Another of the great civilizations, the Aztecs, raised a breed of hairless chihuahuas especially for eating. When the Conquistadors arrived and found dog on…

— Medlar Lucan