Xolotl is the evening star, a counterpart of Quetzalcoatl, the morning star. Cult worship may have involved the ingestion of hallucinogenic mushrooms (psilocybes), considered sacred. Quetzalcoatl was also the patr… After the last destruction wiped out all life, Xolotl and his twin the Fifth Sun Quetzalcoatl ventured into the underworld to retrieve the bones of humanity. Xolotl did, however, aid the dead on their journey to Mictlan, the afterlife in some myths. Xolotl accompanied Quetzalcoatl to After a slapstick-style chase scene, Xavier winds up as the Sun God and commits "sacricide" (sacrificial suicide), ending the skit. The first culture to use the symbol of a feathered serpent as an important religious and political symbol was Teotihuacan. Ollin is the motion-change of cyclical completion. Xoloitzcuintli is the official name of the Mexican Hairless Dog (also known as perro pelón mexicano in Mexican Spanish), a pre-Columbian canine breed from Mesoamerica dating back to over 3500 years ago. Some scholars argue the ballgame symbolizes the Sun's perilous and uncertain nighttime journey through the underworld. Every night, Xolotl pushes the sun into darkness and guides it on its journey through the Underworld. Every night, I lead the Sun down to Mictlán to die. Quetzalcoatl’s twin, Xolotl, was a god associated with death. He is identified with sickness and physical deformity. Quetzalcoatl is a character in Onyx Equinox. In Xochicalco, depictions of the feathered serpent are accompanied by the image of a seated, armed ruler and the hieroglyph for the day sign 9 Wind. In Aztec mythology, Xolotl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈʃolot͡ɬ] (listen)) was a god of fire and lightning. You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs; may our lords come on earth. The name "Xoloitzcuintli" references Xolotl because this dog's mission was to accompany the souls of the dead in their journey into eternity. This talisman was a conch shell cut at the cross-section and was likely worn as a necklace by religious rulers, as such objects have been discovered in burials in archaeological sites throughout Mesoamerica,[7] and potentially symbolized patterns witnessed in hurricanes, dust devils, seashells, and whirlpools, which were elemental forces that had significance in Aztec mythology. The next morning, Quetzalcoatl, feeling shame and regret, had his servants build him a stone chest, adorn him in turquoise, and then, laying in the chest, set himself on fire. [14], Xolotl is sometimes depicted carrying a torch in the surviving Maya codices, which reference the Maya tradition that the dog brought fire to mankind. As a double of Quetzalcoatl, he carries his conch-like ehecailacacozcatl or wind jewel. For example, in the Codex Mendoza we see him playing with the moon-god, and can recognize him by the sign ollin which accompanies him, and by the gouged-out eye in which that symbol ends. The existence of such worship can be seen through studies of the iconography of different Mesoamerican cultures, in which serpent motifs are frequent. Eduard Selerassociates Xolotl's portrayal as a dog with the belief that dogs accompany the souls of the dead to Mictlan. Quetzalcoatl and his twin, Xolotl, journeyed to Mictlan to find the bones, arousing the fury of the Death Lord. Cholula is known to have remained the most important center of worship to Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec/Nahua version of the feathered serpent deity, in the post-classic period. Latter-day Saint author Brant Gardner, after investigating the link between Quetzalcoatl and Jesus, concluded that the association amounts to nothing more than folklore. He is referred to as one who is responsible for guiding souls into the underworld, when the people die. Xolotl is a nigh-omnipotent entity, being an ancient deity, his sphere of influence being such things as monsters, disease, deformities, the underworld and darkness - as the twin of Quetzalcoatl he is a dark mirror of creation itself. [34] Some Franciscans at this time held millennarian beliefs[35] and some of them believed that Cortés' coming to the New World ushered in the final era of evangelization before the coming of the millennium. As he fled from the underworld, Quetzalcoatl dropped the bones, and they broke into pieces. Ehecatl ("God of Wind") consequently began slaying all other gods to induce the newly created Sun into movement. In the Codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which, as described in the codex written by the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún and his Tlatelolcan informants, included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as: You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you. On the basis of the different symbolic systems used in portrayals of the feathered serpent deity in different cultures and periods, scholars have interpreted the religious and symbo… [8] Xolotl is able to help in the Sun's rebirth since he possesses the power to enter and exit the underworld. [18] Xolotl was originally the name for lightning beast of the Maya tribe, often taking the form of a dog. For the giant pterosaur, see. To both Teotihuacan and Maya cultures, Venus was in turn also symbolically connected with warfare.[19]. A 2012 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Dallas Museum of Art, "The Children of the Plumed Serpent: the Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico", demonstrated the existence of a powerful confederacy of Eastern Nahuas, Mixtecs and Zapotecs, along with the peoples they dominated throughout southern Mexico between 1200–1600 (Pohl, Fields, and Lyall 2012, Harvey 2012, Pohl 2003). In a sense, this re-creation of life is reenacted every night when Xolotl guides the sun through the underworld. [6], His empty eye sockets are explained in the legend of Teotihuacan, in which the gods decided to sacrifice themselves for the newly created sun. An incense burner in the form of a skeletal canine depicts Xolotl. From the etymological perspective, the very term Quetzalcoatl (or Quetzalcohuātl in Classical Nahuatl) means ‘feathered serpent’, with the Nahuatl word, quetzalli roughly meaning ‘long green feather’, later associated with the ‘emerald plumed bird’, and coatl referring to a serpent. In this way they divide the single life-death process of cyclical transformation into its two phases: one leading from birth to death, the other from death to birth. Most Mesoamerican beliefs included cycles of suns. Often our current time was considered the fifth sun,[citation needed] the previous four having been destroyed by flood, fire and the like. The dog-headed god is a psychopomp, the god who guides the soul of normal people to Mictlan. Some legends describe him as opposed to human sacrifice[24] while others describe him practicing it.[25][26]. [17], Eduard Seler associates Xolotl's portrayal as a dog with the belief that dogs accompany the souls of the dead to Mictlan. Subtleties in, and an imperfect scholarly understanding of, high Nahuatl rhetorical style make the exact intent of these comments tricky to ascertain, but Restall argues that Moctezuma's politely offering his throne to Cortés (if indeed he did ever give the speech as reported) may well have been meant as the exact opposite of what it was taken to mean: politeness in Aztec culture was a way to assert dominance and show superiority. As a double of Quetzalcoatl, he carries his conch-like ehecailacacozcatl or wind jewel. He was a creator deity having contributed essentially to the creation of mankind. A particularly ugly one too. [8], In art, Xolotl was typically depicted as a dog-headed man, a skeleton, or a deformed monster with reversed feet. In Aztec culture, depictions of Quetzalcoatl were fully anthropomorphic. [8], Xolotl was the patron of the Mesoamerican ballgame. [22], According to another version of the myth, Quetzalcoatl is one of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the four Tezcatlipocas, each of whom presides over one of the four cardinal directions. ( Public Domain ) The roots of Quetzalcoatl, or at least the form of the feathered serpent, can be traced all the way back to the Olmec civili… The highest Aztec priests were each called “Quetzalcoatl” in honor of the god. This confederacy engaged in almost seventy-five years of nearly continuous conflict with the Aztec Empire of the Triple Alliance until the arrival of Cortés. Every night, I lead the Sun down to Mictlan to die. [21] Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl constitute the twin phases of Venus as the morning and evening star, respectively. In the Postclassic period (900–1519 AD), the worship of the feathered-serpent deity centred in the primary Mexican religious center of Cholula. Quetzalcoatl as the morning star acts as the harbinger of the Sun's rising (rebirth) every dawn , Xolotl as the evening star acts as the harbinger of the Sun's setting (death) every dusk . And when the wind rose, when the dust rumbled, and it crack and there was a great din, became it became dark and the wind blew in many directions, and it thundered; then it was said: "[Quetzalcoatl] is wrathful. [8], A close relationship between Xolotl and Nanahuatzin exists. In the end, Ehecatl succeeded in finding and killing Xolotl. One is the competing shaman, Tezcatlipoca, Lord of the Smoking Mirror. Quetzalcoatl's name can also be translated as "precious twin," and in some myths, he had a twin brother named Xolotl, who had a human body and the head of a dog or of an ocelot, a spotted wildcat. Mesoamerica cultural region consisting of southern Mexico and northern regions of Central America Xolotl, however, was unwilling to die in order to give movement to the new Sun. [20], To the Aztecs, Quetzalcoatl was, as his name indicates, a feathered serpent, a flying reptile (much like a dragon), who was a boundary-maker (and transgressor) between earth and sky. Mexico's flagship airline Aeroméxico has a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner painted in a special Quezalcoatl livery. The story of the life of the Mexican divinity, Quetzalcoatl, closely resembles that of the Savior; so closely, indeed, that we can come to no other conclusion than that Quetzalcoatl and Christ are the same being. [citation needed] Additionally, at least one major cache of offerings includes knives and idols adorned with the symbols of more than one god, some of which were adorned with wind jewels. [20] The dog is the animal of the dead and therefore of the Place of Shadows. In some myths, the Xolotl and Quetzalcoatl appear together. Dogs were often subject to ritual sacrifice so that they could accompany their master on his voyage through Mictlan, the underworld. [9] As a psychopomp, Xolotl would guide the dead on their journey to Mictlan the afterlife in myths. Quetzalcoatl and His spirit twin, Xolotl, the god with the serious face of a great hound, said, “I am Xolotl, the Evening Star. Xolotl was the sinister god of monstrosities who wears the spirally-twisted wind jewel and the ear ornaments of Quetzalcoatl. [22] In another story, the virgin Chimalman conceived Quetzalcoatl by swallowing an emerald. Seler speculates that Xolotl represents the murdered twin who dwells in the darkness of Mictlan, while Quetzalcoatl ("The Precious Twin") represents the surviving twi… This view has been questioned by ethno-historians who argue that the Quetzalcoatl-Cortés connection is not found in any document that was created independently of post-Conquest Spanish influence, and that there is little proof of a pre-Hispanic belief in Quetzalcoatl's return. [13], In the Aztec calendar, the ruler of the day, Itzcuintli ("Dog"), is Mictlantecuhtli, the god of death and lord of Mictlan, the afterlife. Some scholarship maintains the view that the Aztec Empire's fall may be attributed in part to the belief in Cortés as the returning Quetzalcoatl, notably in works by David Carrasco (1982), H. B. Nicholson (2001 (1957)) and John Pohl (2016). [13] In Mazatec legends the astrologer deity Tlahuizcalpanteuctli, who is also represented by Venus, bears a close relationship with Quetzalcoatl.[14]. He finds further evidence of the association between Xolotl, dogs, death, and Mictlan in the fact that Mesoamericans viewed twins as unnatural monstrosities and consequently commonly killed one of the two twins shortly after birth. On the basis of the iconography of the feathered serpent deity at sites such as Teotihuacan, Xochicalco, Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tenochtitlan combined with certain ethnohistorical sources, historian David Carrasco has argued that the preeminent function of the feathered serpent deity throughout Mesoamerican history was the patron deity of the Urban center, a god of culture and civilization. Xolotl withdrew from this sacrifice and wept so much his eyes fell out of their sockets. Xolotl is the dog-like deity, often depicted with ragged ears. He also had anthropomorphic forms, for example in his aspects as Ehecatl the wind god. People also frequently paired him with the Quetzalcoatl in various sacred texts and books. The cult of Quetzalcoatl was widespread across the Mesoamerican world, including temple centers in such cities as Teotihuacan, Tula (or Tullán, capitol of the Toltecs in middle Mexico), Xochilco, Mexico-Tenochtitlan (the central part of current Mexico City), and Chichen Itza. In the tonalpohualli, Xolotl rules over day Ollin (movement) and over trecena 1-Cozcacuauhtli (vulture). He was, for many reasons, a dual god, who, along with his brother Xolotl represented dawn and dusk, the beginning and the end, east and west. [12] This is one of many native dog breeds in the Americas and it is often confused with the Peruvian Hairless Dog. (Restall 2001 p. 114)[full citation needed]. Normally Quetzalcoatl gets all the fame and glory, but we think his lesser-known sibling Xolotl deserves a Symbols, Iconography, and Art of Xolotl Aztec art usually portrays the Aztec god Xolotl with ragged ears and other deformities like reversed feet. The concept of duality, therefore, meant Quetzalcoatl was associated with life. [30], https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xolotl&oldid=991052865, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 28 November 2020, at 00:43. [8] The syphilitic god Nanahuatzin is an avatar of Xolotl. [11] Their main duty was to help their owners cross a deep river. He was known as the inventor of books and the calendar, the giver of maize (corn) to mankind, and sometimes as a symbol of death and resurrection. The date 9 Wind is known to be associated with fertility, Venus and war among the Maya and frequently occurs in relation to Quetzalcoatl in other Mesoamerican cultures. Seler speculates that Xolotl represents the murdered twin who dwells in the darkness of Mictlan, while Quetzalcoatl ("The Precious Twin") represents the surviving twin who dwells in the light of the sun. Quetzalcoatl is not a religious symbol in the Latter-day Saint faith, and is not taught as such, nor is it in their doctrine that Quetzalcoatl is Jesus. The earthly dog was created from these same bones, and presented to mankind as a gift from the gods. However, a majority of Mesoamericanist scholars, such as Matthew Restall (2003, 2018[33]), James Lockhart (1994), Susan D. Gillespie (1989), Camilla Townsend (2003a, 2003b), Louise Burkhart, Michel Graulich and Michael E. Smith (2003), among others, consider the "Quetzalcoatl/Cortés myth" as one of many myths about the Spanish conquest which have risen in the early post-conquest period. [8], In manuscripts the setting sun, devoured by the earth, is opposite Xolotl's image. The feathered serpent was furthermore connected to the planet Venus because of this planet's importance as a sign of the beginning of the rainy season. Quetzalcoatl has two brothers. The existence of such worship can be seen through studies of iconography of different Mesoamerican cultures, in which serpent motifs are frequent. Quetzalcoatl was also the patron of the priests and the title of the twin Aztec high priests. The Maya people, for instance, referred to Quetzalcoatl as Kukulkán, whilst the Quiché of Guatemala knew this god as Gucumatz. Quetzalcoatl as the morning star acts as the harbinger of the Sun's rising (rebirth) every dawn, Xolotl as the evening star acts as the harbinger of the Sun's setting (death) every dusk. Xolotl is the canine brother and twin of Quetzalcoatl, the pair being sons of the virgin Coatlicue. The exact significance and attributes of Quetzalcoatl varied somewhat between civilizations and through history. The name "Axolotl" comes from Nahuatl, the Aztec language. Xolotl is the canine brother and twin of Quetzalcoatl,[2] the pair being sons of the virgin Coatlicue. The Nahuatl nouns compounded into the proper name "Quetzalcoatl" are: Nicholson 2001, Carrasco 1982, Gillespie 1989, Florescano 2002, Lafaye 1987, Townsend 2003, Martínez 1980, Phelan 1970, (in English, Spanish, and Nahuatl languages), Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, "Evidence of Mushroom Worship in Mesoamerica", "New Taxonomical and Ethnomycological Observations on, "Readings in Classical Nahuatl: The Death of Quetzalcoatl", "The Complete New York City Horror Movie Marathon! Xolotl was the god of fire and lightning. His two spirit animal forms are the Xoloitzcuintli dog and the water salamander species known as the Axolotl. Quetzelcoatl also appeared on (Season 3) of the Animal Planet mockumentary Lost Tapes in an episode entitled "Q the Serpent God". He was commonly depicted as a dog-headed man and was a soul-guide for the dead. The earliest depictions of the feathered serpent deity were fully zoomorphic, depicting the serpent as an actual snake, but already among the Classic Maya, the deity began acquiring human features. [7] The dog plays an important role in Maya manuscripts. I know the way to the Land of the Dead and will guide us there.” Quetzalcoatl, His wise old face wreathed with a beard of brilliant feathers, said, “I am Quetzalcoatl… It is possible that dog sculptures also found in burials were also intended to help people on this journey. Animals thought to represent Quetzalcoatl include resplendent quetzals, rattlesnakes (coatl meaning "serpent" in Nahuatl), crows, and macaws. He is the dark personification of Venus, the evening star, and was associated with heavenly fire. "[4], The earliest known documentation of the worship of a Feathered Serpent occurs in Teotihuacan in the first century BC or first century AD. He was the dark twin of Quetzalcoatl, responsible for guiding the Sun through Mictlán, the Underworld. Since the sixteenth century, it has been widely held that the Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II initially believed the landing of Hernán Cortés in 1519 to be Quetzalcoatl's return. The twin of Quetzalcoatl, or Xolotl, which basically means "wrinkled," had assigned manifestations of the Lord of the Dead (Mictlantecuhtli). According to the Book of Mormon, the resurrected Jesus Christ descended from heaven and visited the people of the American continent, shortly after his resurrection. The earliest iconographic depiction of the deity is believed to be found on Stela 19 at the Olmec site of La Venta, depicting a serpent rising up behind a person probably engaged in a shamanic ritual. He finds further evidence of the association between Xolotl, dogs, death, and Mictlan in the fact that Mesoamericans viewed twins as unnatural monstrosities and consequently commonly killed one of the two twins shortly after birth. He is the lightning beast, who darts from heaven with a torch in his hand. The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl as depicted in the Codex Telleriano-Remensis (16th century). "[15], Quetzalcoatl was also linked to rulership and priestly office; additionally, among the Toltec, it was used as a military title and emblem.[16]. [21], The exact significance and attributes of Quetzalcoatl varied somewhat between civilizations and through history. 31-may-2018 - Explora el tablero de Dis "Xolotl" en Pinterest. There is no question that the legend of Quetzalcoatl played a significant role in the colonial period. I know the way to the Land of the Dead and will guide us there.” Colonial documentary sources from the Maya area frequently speak of the arrival of foreigners from the central Mexican plateau, often led by a man whose name translates as "Feathered Serpent". Seler characterizes Nanahuatzin ("Little Pustule Covered One"), who is deformed by syphilis, as an aspect of Xolotl in his capacity as god of monsters, deforming diseases, and deformities. Unsurprisingly, many depictions of Quetzalcoatl pertain to a serpent, with the probable earliest known representation of the god found at the Olmec … He gathered up the pieces and took them to the earth goddess Cihuacoatl (Snake … He was also god of twins, monsters, misfortune, sickness, and deformities. When possessing a child, Quetzalcoatl develops feathers all over his body and also a feather tail. 5D's, Fate/Grand Order - Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia, Beyblade: Metal Fusion and Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid (the latter depicting Quetzalcoatl as a female dragon deity); the Megami Tensei video game franchise; the video games Fate/Grand Order, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy XV, Sanitarium, Smite (as an alternate costume for his Mayan counterpart, Kukulkan), and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine; as the main antagonist in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth"; and in the last of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel books. In the example from Yaxchilan, the Vision Serpent has the human face of the young maize god, further suggesting a connection to fertility and vegetational renewal; the Maya Young Maize god was also connected to Venus. Quetzalcoatl—he was the wind, the guide and road sweeper of the rain gods, of the masters of the water, of those who brought rain. His birth, along with his twin Xolotl, was unusual; it was a virgin birth, to the goddess Coatlicue. [28][29][30][31][32] Most documents expounding this theory are of entirely Spanish origin, such as Cortés's letters to Charles V of Spain, in which Cortés goes to great pains to present the naive gullibility of the Aztecs in general as a great aid in his conquest of Mexico. Xolotl, the Twin, the Shapeshifter, Venus as the Evening Star, the Lord of the West, Double of Quetzalcoatl. Xolotl is a dog-headed god of lightning, fire, and twins in Aztec mythology. Seler thinks "that the root of the name ollin suggested to Mexicans the motion of the rubber ball olli and, as a consequence, ball-playing. The Aztec believed Xolotl traveled with his b rother, Quetzalcoatl to Mictlan, the underworld, to retrieve the bones of an extinct race of beings that inhabited the previous world. As the morning star, he was known by the title Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, meaning "lord of the star of the dawn". In one version of a particularly well-known myth, that of the creation of mankind, Quetzalcoatl and his twin travel to Mictlan, the Aztec underworld, to retrieve the bones of the dead so that humans can be created. On the basis of the different symbolic systems used in portrayals of the feathered serpent deity in different cultures and periods, scholars have interpreted the religious and symbolic meaning of the feathered serpent deity in Mesoamerican cultures. Quetzalcoatl allegedly went to Mictlan, the underworld, and created fifth-world mankind from the bones of the previous races (with the help of Chihuacoatl), using his own blood, from a wound in his penis, to imbue the bones with new life. He was the twin of Quetzalcoatl, the pair being sons of the virgin Coatlicue, and was the dark personification of Venus, the evening star. He was also the patron god of the Aztec priesthood, of learning and knowledge. Ver más ideas sobre arte prehispanico, aztecas, prehispanico. [29] The Tlaxcalteca, along with other city-states across the Plain of Puebla, then supplied the auxiliary and logistical support for the conquests of Guatemala and West Mexico while Mixtec and Zapotec caciques (Colonial indigenous rulers) gained monopolies in the overland transport of Manila galleon trade through Mexico, and formed highly lucrative relationships with the Dominican order in the new Spanish imperial world economic system that explains so much of the enduring legacy of indigenous life-ways that characterize southern Mexico and explain the popularity of the Quetzalcoatl legends that continued through the colonial period to the present day. [38] In a 1986 paper for Sunstone, he noted that during the Spanish Conquest, the Native Americans and the Catholic priests who sympathized with them felt pressure to link Native American beliefs with Christianity, thus making the Native Americans seem more human and less savage. [9] Furthermore, early Spanish sources written by clerics tend to identify the god-ruler Quetzalcoatl of these narratives with either Hernán Cortés or Thomas the Apostle—identifications which have also become sources of a diversity of opinions about the nature of Quetzalcoatl.[10]. Xolotl, the god with the serious face of a great hound, said, “I am Xolotl, the Evening Star. He was known as the inventor of books and the calendar, the giver of maize corn to mankind, and sometimes as a symbol of death and resurrection. The band Clutch references Quetzalcoatl in their song Oregon. He was involved in Quetzalcoatl’s quest to take bones of the undead back to the surface world. Aztec statuary depicts the two deities Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl back to back, joined into a single, Janus-faced entity. From these bones, they restored mankind. A feathered serpent deity has been worshiped by many different ethno-political groups in Mesoamerican history. His birth, along with his twin Xolotl, was unusual; it was a virgin birth, to the goddess Coatlicue. In a version of the myth, Quetzalcoatl was born by a virgin named Chimalman, to whom the god Onteol appeared in a dream. His ashes rose into the sky and then his heart followed, becoming the morning star (see Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli).[27]. In this period the deity is known to have been named Quetzalcōhuātl by his Nahua followers. On the basis of the Teotihuacan iconographical depictions of the feathered serpent, archaeologist Karl Taube has argued that the feathered serpent was a symbol of fertility and internal political structures contrasting with the War Serpent symbolizing the outwards military expansion of the Teotihuacan empire. The two gods are believed to be born of Coatlicue (which means ‘skirt of snakes’), a primordial earth goddess. Quetzalcoatl /ˌkɛtsælkoʊˈɑːtəl/ is a deity in Aztec culture and literature whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and means "Precious serpent" or "Quetzal-feathered Serpent". [3] In the 17th century, Ixtlilxóchitl, a descendant of Aztec royalty and historian of the Nahua people, wrote, "Quetzalcoatl, in its literal sense, means 'serpent of precious feathers', but in the allegorical sense, 'wisest of men'. While not usually feathered, classic Maya serpent iconography seems related to the belief in a sky-, Venus-, creator-, war- and fertility-related serpent deity. 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