Feathered Serpent and the Five Suns by Duncan Tonatiuh

Author:Duncan Tonatiuh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams

own beliefs and customs. The knowledge we have of the

feathered serpent comes from interpreting the depictions

that have survived. It also comes from the writing of Spanish

friars, such as Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, who soon after the

conquest sought to learn about the beliefs of the indigenous

people instead of destroying them.

Nahuatl-speaking cultures knew the feathered serpent as

Quetzalcóatl. In the Nahuatl language,

quetzal

means “precious

feather” and

cóatl

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