Portal:Mesoamerica/Did you know/July 2012

• ... that Xiuhcoatl (pictured) was a mythological Aztec fire-serpent, viewed as the spirit form of Xiuhtecuhtli, the fire god, and was the lightning-like weapon of the god Huitzilopochtli?
• ... that the important Early Classic Mesoamerican city of Montana, in Guatemala, was a colony founded by the distant metropolis of Teotihuacan, in Mexico?
• ... that for most of its history, Ixtonton was the most important Maya city in the upper Mopan Valley of Guatemala?