Miquiztli Meaning: “Death”. Miquiztli represents the duality of life and death.     Personified by Mictlancihuatl (The goddess of death) and Mictlantecuhtli (The god of death) who are the Aztec gods of hell in Mictlan (Place of the Dead).     According to the legend, for the creation of the man, Quetzalcoatl had to go to look for the gods