B efore he was identified as an indigenous god, Quetzalcoatl was simply a peculiar snake-bird carving on a broken stone tablet found in Mexico—a carving, it turns out, from the Mesoamerican ...
Only in Mexico did the colonizers of the New World ... The viceroy took the place of Montezuma; Christ became the altar ego of the god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and savior who can both ...
THE AZTECS of central Mexico attributed the creation of the cacao beans to their god Quetzalcoatl who descended from heaven on a beam of a morning star carrying a cacao tree stolen from paradise ...