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Quetzalcoatl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Temple of the Feathered Serpent, Teotihuacan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Temple of the Feathered Serpent is the modern-day name for the third largest pyramid at Teotihuacan, a pre-Columbian site in central Mexico. This structure is particularly notable due to the 200...
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Feathered Serpent (deity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In the Postclassic period (900 1519 CE) the worship of the feathered serpent deity was centered in the central Mexican religious center of Cholula. It is in this period that the deity is known to have been named "Quetzalcoatl" by his Nahua followers.
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UNDER the distinctively American name and symbol of the Feathered-Serpent are to be found the Great Teachers of Mexico and Central America. Who has not heard of the "Fair God," whose promise to come again led the Mexicans to believe Cortes was the returning Quetzalcoatl?
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In Peru, Gene Savoy first saw stone depictions of the Feathered Serpent, and learned their link to the legendary teacher, in the high jungles when he explored the temple complex at Gran Pajaten in 1965. This early work led him along the legendary trail of this figure through the Americas where legends of the...
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View of the West façade of the; Feathered Serpent Pyramid ... [Back to Teotihuacan] ... [Next Image of the FSP]
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