Known by many names across different civilizations, Quetzalcoatl was a complex figure, embodying aspects of creation, wind and even warfare. The origins of the plumed serpent Quetzalcoatl's ...

A ubiquitous Mesoamerican deity occupying space in both the Aztec and Mayan pantheons, the feathered serpent was known by two primary names.Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec name, comes from the Nahuatl ...

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 ...

Built between the 1st and 7th centuries A.D., it is characterized by the vast size of its monuments – in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, laid out on ...