Changes

[[Image:Orozco_-_Dartmouth_a.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Quetzalcoatl is said to have departed from Mexico on a raft made of snakes. Here depicted in [[José Clemente Orozco]]'s famous mural, ''The Epic of American Civilization'', at [[Dartmouth College]], New Hampshire.]]

[[Image:Orozco_-_Dartmouth_a.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Quetzalcoatl is said to have departed from Mexico on a raft made of snakes. Here depicted in [[José Clemente Orozco]]'s famous mural, ''The Epic of American Civilization'', at [[Dartmouth College]], New Hampshire.]]

'''Quetzalcoatl''' was the name given by the [[Aztecs]] to [[Thomas the Apostle]] when he evangelized among them shortly after the death and [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus Christ]]. He is said to have opposed their practice of [[human sacrifice]], and prophesized the [[Spanish conquest of Mexico]].

'''Quetzalcoatl''' was the name given by the [[Aztecs]] to [[Thomas the Apostle]] when he evangelized among them shortly after the death and [[resurrection]] of [[Jesus Christ]]. He is said to have opposed their practice of [[human sacrifice]], and prophesized the [[Spanish conquest of Mexico]].{{fact}}

==Sources==

==Sources==

*Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de. ''Fenix del Occidente, San Thomas Apóstol, hallado con el nombre de Quetzalcóatl entre las cenizas de antiguas tradiciones conservadas en piedras, en teomoxtles tultecos y en cantares teochichimecos y mexicanos''

*Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de. ''Fenix del Occidente, San Thomas Apóstol, hallado con el nombre de Quetzalcóatl entre las cenizas de antiguas tradiciones conservadas en piedras, en teomoxtles tultecos y en cantares teochichimecos y mexicanos''

==See also==

==See also==

*[[Huitzilopochtli]]

*[[Huitzilopochtli]]