Quetzalcóatl — The Feathered Serpent

myth · Mexico · North American

Quetzalcóatl, the Feathered Serpent, is the most important syncretic deity in Mexican and Mexican-American spiritual folklore. In Aztec tradition, he was the god of wind, knowledge, learning, and the priesthood — credited with creating humanity by descending to Mictlan (the underworld) and mixing his blood with the bones of previous generations. He is also associated with the morning star (Venus) and is the inventor of books and the calendar. The feathered serpent iconography appears throughout Mesoamerica from Teotihuacan (200 BCE) to the Aztec Empire, and his worship was centered at Cholula'

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