Deity Mesoamerica and the Andes
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcōātl nah
Deity in Mesoamerican culture and literature
- Child of Xochiquetzal, Chimalma and Mixcoatl
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Quetzalcoatl
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 8
Kinship in an account 8
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Chimalma aztec deity -
child of (child) Mixcoatl deity -
child of (child) Tōnacātēcuhtli Aztec creator and fertility deity -
child of (child) Xochiquetzal Mexic deity of beauty, flowers, loving pleasure, arts and love. -
sibling of Huitzilopochtli deity in Aztec mythology -
sibling of Tezcatlipoca deity -
sibling of Xipe Totec Aztec deity -
sibling of Xolotl Aztec god
Connections
How Quetzalcoatl connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Place 1
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that anything is documented to have happened there
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
8 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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