To mark the 25th anniversary of Mexico's accession as an Observer State to the Council of Europe, the country has presented a work of art to the ...

Imagine a creature so immense, so breathtakingly large, that its shadow could swallow you whole as it soared overhead.

THE PLUMED SERPENT—D. H. Lawrence—Knopf ($3). Here lies Mexico, a sullen nation of black obsidian, brooding beneath a cruel sun. Christ hangs dead upon his cross and the name of Mary is a ...

At its heart lies the myth of the Plumed Serpent, or Quetzalcoatl--central to the Maya, Aztec, Toltec, Zapotec, Mixtec and nearly every other formative Mexican culture--whose temples, sculptures ...

And White Tezcatlipoca, the “Plumed Serpent,” can be seen as Quetzalcoatl. It’s important to acknowledge this strange dual association, though, as it explains much about how Tezcatlipoca was ...

EXCAVATION of the Mixteco-Zapotecan necropolis on Monte Alban, near Oaxaca, Mexico, which has been in progress under the direction of Dr. Alfonso Caso without interruption since 1932, has produced ...

In the Mesoamerican cultures, Kukulkan was known as Quetzalcoatl. He was one of the most crucial figures in the Mayan pantheon. The Plumed Serpent Kukulkan was the embodiment of wind, rain, and ...

The quetzal was venerated by the ancient Aztecs, Toltecs and Mayas as a colleague of the plumed serpent god, Quetzalcoatl (rhymes with pretzelcowatle), god of metallurgy, agriculture, wisdom, health.

That ambition led to Harrison's writing of “Song of Quetzalcoatl.” Doug Lofstrom, another American composer, also took interest in Quetzalcóatl, calling his work “The Plumed Serpent.” The bottom line ...

Quetzalcoatl; Aztec god of wind, bringer of rain, guardian of crops; a plumed serpent or a man, white and bearded. Not only an agricultural benefactor, he taught the people of the Yucatan the arts of ...

The name Quetzalcoatl is a composite, often translated freely as Plumed Serpent--quetzal (trogan splendens) being the favourite bird of the Aztecs and coatl the serpent and sacred symbol of light and ...