People revered Huitzilopochtli, known as the Aztec sun god and the patron god of the Aztecs, as the god of war, sun and human ... this Aztec god to be a symbol of fertility and creation.

Xiuhtecuhtli, whose name means "turquoise lord" in the Nahuatl language, was the Aztec "new fire" god. The Aztecs kept ... to form a butterfly, another symbol of renewal associated with Xiuhtecuhtli.