It contained an assortment of sacrificial perforators made of jaguar bone, used by Aztec priests to spill their own blood as a gift to the gods. Alongside the perforators were bars of copal ...

For the Aztecs, there were many different concepts of what eclipses ... to the Codex Vaticanus – the Aztecs thought that a jaguar was going to eat the sun. This idea translated and evolved ...