B efore he was identified as an indigenous god, Quetzalcoatl was simply a peculiar snake-bird carving on a broken stone tablet found in Mexico—a carving, it turns out, from the Mesoamerican ...

The poet and writer Adriana Diaz Enciso explains the snake's connection to the Aztec gods, and especially to the great feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl: "The snake was important for the Aztecs ...