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Quetzalcoatl

Appearance in Mesoamerica and specifically the Anáhuac, this tall, blond, white, bearded character and deep culture has given to the creation of several myths and legends that anthropologists, scientists and foreign explorers have woven an increasingly difficult to untangle maze. Tlahuica, as confusing as the Greek mythology overboard a story regarding Quetzalcoatl, similar to the birth of King Solomon, as stated in the ancient codices Quetzalcoatl was son of a Virgin woman named Chimalma and Rey-Dios Mixtocóatl, Tollán monarch. Embarrassed by giving birth without marriage, Chimalma gave the boy in a basket and threw into the River. (does not know to which) and that some elderly raised it and educated, having become a wise and learned man returning to Tollán, took charge of the Government.

Moreover said that Quetzalcoatl was a blond, white, high, bearded and large scientific knowledge, taught the inhabitants of what is now Mexico, to till the metals, precious metalwork, lapidary, astrology etc but never came to know their nationality and their origin. Tell that having drunk the soft neutle (pulque) is emborrachó and committed shameful acts of which decided to leave for always taking the course of the Gulf of Mexico or the turquoise sea.

In a ceremonial suicide which accompanied him four mancebos his disciples, is hundio forever, renacienco as the star of the morning and subsequently adopting the name of Quetzalcoatl, meaning Feathered Serpent or beautiful plumage snake.

The Maya adopted Quetzalcoatl as deity because there took their understanding and their appalling, culture by placing the name of Kukulcan, meaning the same, Feathered Serpent or Votán (which should have been his real name) and he received the most wise teachings religious, political and artistic.

Reportedly the Toltec, Maya Nahoas deificaron it and placed the symbol in all the palaces, monuments and temples of the Maya and Mesoamerica where can still be seen, in remembrance and veneration of this wise, Mayan, tradition came to the Pantheon and became the star Venus, who is also well identified by archaeologists fanciful area.

Now, when the Hispanic hosts reached veracruzanas lands in command of the Extremaduran Captain Hernán Cortés, and according to tell us in their very tasty Chronicles Bernal Díaz del Castillo, found with a big surprise that in those days of greed and robbery unreasonable not gave the importance and today still, must have. Recounts the soldier chronicler to newcomers to the coasts of what would become the new Spain, Emperor Moctezuma sent a few tendiles carrying gifts, gold and jewels and many rich present that far from doing that Cortés again bow to the sea, so tempted ambitions. One of these tendiles to see that one of the soldiers of Cortés had a helmet brass shining sun, asked to see it, saying that many, many years, had come to the Grand Tenochitlán a blond, bearded and white man wearing a similar helmet; that the leave it had given and priests placed him at the head of the representative of God Huitzilopochtli Idol. Requested that the helmet is paid to compare it with their God did since.

And proved that the Golden helmet had the God, was equal to Hispanic, soldier only that I had on both sides about cornezuelos in the style of Viking helmets.

That tendil not only took to Hernán Cortés that golden helmet, but also a white, high, bearded, blond man that closely resembled the Conqueror, saying that his name was Quintalbor, which in no way is name Mexican, maya or corresponding to any of the languages spoken in the new world. But instead of carefully examine the hull and if did them it was not appropriated in any letters of relationship, took chunga and relaxation the presence of the bearded, blonde and white man identical to don Hernán Cortés, the degree of seem like your child or your twin and since that time called it Don Cortés.

To get the conquerors to the fabulous city of Tenochtitlan, priests and main spoke a blonde and bearded man similar to that for many years had been among them and had predicted them that a day would the barbados men country and with powerful weapons to enslave the lordship.

Moctezuma, tells the story was a monarch medroso, cautious, believed that the prophecy was fulfilled with the arrival of Hernán Cortés and his handful of raptors and almost left in the hands of the Hispanic handful of gallows, the fate of their Kingdom of his empire.

Now it is presumably Quetzalcoatl wasn't that mysterious man barbado, possibly Norse left as I remember his helmet of Viking, since then the Europe had no numerical knowledge culture and possessed Maya calendrical and myth and legend interweave in an impenetrable warp, confused due to the anthropological and archaeological studies in a majority by foreigners.

Perhaps Tollán if you had a good and wise ruler called Quetzalcoatl, son of Chimalma and Rey-Dios Mixcoatl, but is also very possible that priests and then astronomers to observe the heavens in the way they did, have discovered that the world, his world was part of the milky way, this huge Galaxy today and which we are part and which gave by name Ixtacmixcoatl which means "Dotted with precious stones or luceros snake", embedded snake diamond. And after observations you have put Quetzalcoatl, beautiful feathers snake and extended his cult to the inhabitants of Mesoamerica. There that in portentosos that old buildings have been sculpted these symbols and revered deity, therefore any man by Sage has been, was never the rank of God.

Finally and ending legend and myth, the story, and speculation, must settle according to some archaeologists, never existed the Feathered Serpent, which would be absurd a mixture or juxtaposition a beautiful bird and a reptile religious purposes.

What happened and this can and should be given more credit, is that so advanced in their artistic sublimation civilization, men sculpted a snake with plume with jaguar claws and created a monstrous and beautiful figure at the same time as the mythical dragon of the Chinese in which want to snag the mysterious and Peregrine blond barbaro, which at least since their culture would have been almost complete could have left written his name and his country in one of the walls, fresh or bas-reliefs of temples and palaces.

So again the same. Quetzalcoatl man, Quetzaltcoalt God, amalgamated absurd of present generations. Misunderstanding of the mystery of those peoples which have given margin to one of the most widespread legends in America and worldwide. 

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