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All phases of the lives of the Aztec people were dominated by religion. Every activity from the highest to the lowest was under some deity, and over all of them ruled Huitzilopochtli. Connected to their temples they built schools for warriors and priests, music and dance. Xochipili is an Aztec god of music, singing, and dance. There is a statue of him in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia.
The Aztecs believed that dance, song and sacrifice would help to win favors from the gods. They danced on feast days, sometimes as many as a thousand at a time, asking for blessings in marriages, births, healing, hunting, rain, harvest, and war as well as every other part of ther life.
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