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Quetzalcoatl
An Aztec
deity whose name means 'feathered serpent', a god of the air or a sun-god and a benefactor
of their race who instructed them in the use of agriculture, metals and the like.
According to one account,
Quetzalcoatl was driven from the country by a superior god and on reaching the shores of
the Mexican Gulf promised his followers that he would return. He then embarked on his magic skiff for the land of
Tlapallan.
The Great Bird-Serpent is the most powerful figure in Mexican
mythology, and it was known and accepted as a god in
ancient Mexico and Central America.
Accordingly, he
dominated the great early American civilizations, from the land of the Incas in South America, to the Pueblo Indians of
the our southwestern desert; from
Teotihuacan (Mexico City) on the high plateau to Chichen Itza in Yucatan, he is a
prevailing motif on ancient monuments. Sometimes with his jaws open, bifid tongue,
and articulated spinal column, he is easily recognizable. At others, he seems to have
been coded in an almost infinite variety of formalized patterns derived from his
famous scales, or feathers.
To the
ancients, Quetzalcoatl became the force for understanding the universe, as it was known before the introduction of
modern religion by the Conquistadors of Spain. The god Quetzalcoatl represented, to the
ancient peoples of Central and South America, the very essence of life.
Related books:
Crop Circles -
The End of Time: The Return to Earth of Allah, Quetzalcoatl, Ra, Vishnu and Yahweh.
Legends of the
Plumed Serpent: Biography of a Mexican God.
Lord of the Dawn: Quetzalcoatl and the Tree of Life.
Plumed Serpent
(Quetzalcoatl).
Quetzalcoatl (New
Directions Paperbook, Ndp864).
The Myth of
Quetzalcoatl.
The Winged
Prophet: From Hermes to Quetzalcoatl.
Topiltzin
Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs.
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