Quetzalcóatl
c. 100 BCE – 1550 CEattested
Teotihuacan and central Mexico
- Mesoamerican
The feathered serpent, worshipped in central Mexico for over a thousand years before the Aztecs: wind, learning, and the god who went to the underworld to remake humanity.
Known for
- feathered serpent
- giver of maize and learning
- the morning star
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.