Biography god legend mexican plumed serpent

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At the time of the Spanish Conquest, Quetzalcoatl was known as the plumed serpent god who came from a long tradition of similar representations.  The earliest reference to the feathered serpent deity in ancient Mexico appears in the Olmec times, around 900 BC at the city of La Venta in the modern-day Mexican state of Tabasco.  While not as “fleshed out” as the later representations of Quetzalcoatl, the Olmec plumed serpent shows that the iconography of feathered snakes dates back thousands of years.  The first major civilization in ancient Mexico to adopt on a widespread basis what has been commonly recognized as Quetzalcoatl was Teotihuacán.  The massive ancient city with its Avenue of the Dead, its gigantic pyramids of the Sun and Moon also had a temple dedicated to the feathered serpent god.  The iconic heads sticking out of stone abutments a Biography god legend mexican plumed serpent book.