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[[Image:Quetzacoatl.jpg|thumb|300px|Quetzacoatl depicted as a man]]Quetzacoatl was the god of many ancient Mesoamerican cultures. He was a god of wind and air, portrayed either as a feathered serpent or a man.
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[[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.]]
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'''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]].
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==Sources==
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*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''
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==See also==
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*[[Huitzilopochtli]]
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