Death was an essential part of Aztec culture from sacrifice to burial. The Aztec people showed a great deal of respect for the fallen warriors. Warriors who were killed in battles or who gave themselves up to be sacrificed were considered heroes. Warriors who died during a battle wouldn’t be brought home; instead they were burned where they were found dead. Another warrior would take an arrow from the fallen warrior to bring home and be dressed in the Sun god insignia and be burned. Aztec people also believed that the place were warriors go in the afterlife is also the same place for women who died while giving birth.
The Aztec people’s process for mourning the fallen warriors was very sacred and long. People who were in mourning would not bathe for eighty days; until the warrior’s soul had reached the Sky of the Sun. Aztec women had a different role when it came to mourning the deaths of their husbands. They would wear the clocks of their husbands everywhere they would go. As well as wear their hair down and dance to the sound of beating drums. Fallen warriors sons also had a different way of mourning for their fathers. They would carry a box that contained jewelry from their fathers.
If an Aztec eagle warrior died they would have a very different ritual for them. Instead of being burned where they died, they would be cremated and then placed in the eagle warrior hall. Their jewelry, gold artifacts, and jaguar clays were buried alongside of them too.
The Aztec people’s process for mourning the fallen warriors was very sacred and long. People who were in mourning would not bathe for eighty days; until the warrior’s soul had reached the Sky of the Sun. Aztec women had a different role when it came to mourning the deaths of their husbands. They would wear the clocks of their husbands everywhere they would go. As well as wear their hair down and dance to the sound of beating drums. Fallen warriors sons also had a different way of mourning for their fathers. They would carry a box that contained jewelry from their fathers.
If an Aztec eagle warrior died they would have a very different ritual for them. Instead of being burned where they died, they would be cremated and then placed in the eagle warrior hall. Their jewelry, gold artifacts, and jaguar clays were buried alongside of them too.