Although he had bird features and some people think he was the Mayan eagle god, Quetzalcoatl was representative of the Resplendent Quetzal bird; not an eagle. Chaac or Chaak was an important ...

This amalgamation reflects the duality in Quetzalcoatl's nature as both a feathered creature and a snake. The Maya used the name Kukulkan to refer to the same feathered serpent god. According to ...

The ancient Maya brewed a spicy ... of central Mexico attributed the creation of the cacao beans to their god Quetzalcoatl who, as the legend goes, descended from heaven on a beam of a morning ...