In one story, this god gets drunk and seduces a celibate priestess, after which he burns himself to death and his heart becomes the morning star. His brother was the dog-headed skeletal psychopomp Xolotl. Another story sees t
In one story, this god gets drunk and seduces a celibate priestess, after which he burns himself to death and his heart becomes the morning star. His brother was the dog-headed skeletal psychopomp Xolotl. Another story sees this deity depart on a raft of snakes after being shamed by his rival Tezcatlipoca. Some Mormon scholars have claimed that this deity was actually Jesus Christ, and he was once notoriously assumed to have been incarnated as Hernan Cortez. For 10 points, name this feather-serpent deity from Aztec mythology.
In one story, this god gets drunk and seduces a celibate priestess, after which he burns himself to death and his heart becomes the morning star.
Quetzalcoatl