Talk:Quetzalcoatl/@comment-26494264-20160717005557

Quetzalcoatl is actually a major deity in the mesoamerican region, which is pretty much Mexico and a fraction of terrain to the south. Its name is in nahuatl and means "feathered snake", it was revered as different deities along mesoamerica, but became widely known as Quetzalcoatl because of two factors: When the triple alliance raised to the power (and therefore the Aztecs), they pretty much conquered most of the civilizations and second, when a nation was conquered, it was tradition for the conquered culture to adquire the conquerors' culture, meaning that since the Aztecs ruled over the future country of Mexico, their religion was adopted by most of the people there.

There is also a myth about the come of Quetzalcoatl. The aztecs believed that he/she/it would come in the form of a man, with its scales shining like the sun; that's why when spain sent their conquerors, they were first taken like the most privileged of guests since the nation mistook Hernan Cortez with Quetzalcoatl.

As a piece of trivia, in one of the myths Quetzalcoatl was born from the virgin Chimalmam, which helped spain to convert the conquered tribes into cristianism.

Source? Me.

Intentions? Just to keep this consistent.

Greetings~