AZTEC, N.M. (KRQE) – Fire investigators are investigating a fire in Aztec that left one person dead. Just after 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, the Aztech Fire Department was sent to reports of a… ...

In fact, the mask's raised turquoise may depict the wart-faced god Nanahuatzin, who, according to Aztec mythology, sacrificed himself to the fire and emerged to become the sun.

The Aztecs kept a "holy fire" continuously burning in the Fire Temple at Tenochtitlan, from which all other fires were lit. Once every 52 years, Aztec priests let the fire die out.