Norse
Ymir
first giant, raw material of the world
Quetzalcoatl
Aztec (Mexica) tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- wind, learning, priesthood, the morning star
- Symbols and attributes
- Feathered serpent; conch
- Parents (per the sources used)
- Ometeotl
Key myth
In the Legend of the Suns he descends to Mictlan to retrieve the bones of earlier humans and sheds blood on them to make the present people.
Where sources differ or caution applies. The story that Cortés was mistaken for Quetzalcoatl comes from post-conquest sources and is doubted by historians.
Primary sources
- Leyenda de los Soles
- Florentine Codex Book 3
All sources for the Aztec (Mexica) pantheon
Lineage in the sources used: Ometeotl.
Place in the family graph
More traditions
Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Quetzalcoatl: wisdom, writing and divination, sky, storm and thunder, creation and first beings. This is overlap in one area only.