the influence of Quetzalcoatl has endured. Images of the Aztec god, depicted in temple reliefs and codices, have become synonymous with the Mesoamerican cultures. From the stone figures in the ...

B efore he was identified as an indigenous god, Quetzalcoatl was simply a peculiar snake-bird carving on a broken stone tablet found in Mexico—a carving, it turns out, from the Mesoamerican ...