Quetzalcoatl: The History and Legacy of the Feathered Serpent God in Mesoamerican Mythology Audiobook by Charles River Editors

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Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 400106 Title: Quetzalcoatl: The History and Legacy of the Feathered Serpent God in Mesoamerican Mythology Author: Charles River Editors Narrator: Bill Hare Format: Unabridged Length: 01:51:51 Language: English Release date: 07-16-19 Publisher: Findaway Voices Genres: History, Fiction & Literature, North America, Literary Criticism Summary: As archaeologists quickly learned, there are numerous temples dedicated to Quetzalcoatl all across Mesoamerica. From the Aztec to the Maya, Quetzalcoatl - the Feathered Serpent - rears his beautiful head from magnificent relief carvings in temples no less grandiose than the largest pyramid in the region, that of Cholula in Mexico. Furthermore, thousands of people still gather in the great Mayan city of Chichén Itzá during the spring and autumn equinoxes to watch the shadow of the Feathered Serpent slither its way down the temple known as El Castillo. Worship of the Feathered Serpent can be traced back 2,000 years, and the Serpents cults appear all across Mesoamerica. The Olmec, the Aztec, and both the Yucatec and Kiche Mayans all had different names for this deity, including Kukulkan, Ququmatz, and Tohil, but his iconography is curiously consistent over several centuries across the region. Depending on who was worshipping him, the Feathered Serpent was a creator-god, the god of the winds, the god of the rains, or merely a near-divine ancestor whose militaristic ways won his followers land and riches before he was eventually marred by lavishness and iniquity, resulting in his demise. To some of the invading Spanish conquistadores, Quetzalcoatl was little more than another demon the natives had been worshipping before they were kind enough to bring God to the New World. To others, however, Quetzalcoatl was precisely evidence of the spread of Christianity reaching Mesoamerica long before the conquistadores ever arrived. Much of what modern scholars depend on to understand Quetzalcoatl, however, comes from the period of the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica, and therefore stories of his blowing the sun across the sky have become mixed with those linking him with Jesus Christ. Contact: [email protected]

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