Before he was identified as an indigenous god, Quetzalcoatl ... with Kukulkan and the great Mayan metropolis, Chichen Itza. According to legend, Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl was the incumbent lord ...

Cacao is actually a Mayan word meaning ‘God Food’, hence ... Mexico attributed the creation of the cacao beans to their god Quetzalcoatl who, as the legend goes, descended from heaven on ...

Such a design resembles other representations of a deity known as the “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one probably an ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture ...