Because the Aztec eagle warrior is common in Mexican culture — and as the logo of the airline Aeromexico — Ramirez says he was aiming to put his own spin on the image.

Marco takes his analysis all the way back to the airline's original eagle design from 1934 and the addition of the Aztec eagle warrior in 1960. One of his conclusions is that the redesign might ...

The Aztec eagle warrior they used to be plastered on all the calendars in the house." He said it was his way of making traditional art a bit more contemporary.

"I felt that I did a great job of upholding the culture," Kyle Anderberg, who was the Aztec Eagle Warrior from 2012 to 2015, said.

Of the nearly 13,000 responses received, an overwhelming majority was in favor of keeping both the name and the symbol “Aztec Warrior” as a human mascot, and many threatened to take away ...