The motif of the plumed serpent became ubiquitous in Mesoamerican art and icononography ... the most enduring legends surrounding the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl is the prophecy of his return, akin ...

It contained an assortment of sacrificial perforators made of jaguar bone, used by Aztec priests to spill their own blood as a gift to the gods ... one—"the richest art center at that time ...

The holy city of Teotihuacan ('the place where the gods were created') is situated some 50 km north ... by the vast size of its monuments - in particular, the Temple of Quetzalcoatl and the Pyramids ...

In contemporary culture, they're the focus of numerous historical studies, films, books, visual works of art ... gods in the ...

They had a flourishing culture that produced elaborate works of art which were ... snake's connection to the Aztec gods, and especially to the great feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl: "The ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (EWTN News/CNA) — Artistic beauty can lead the human heart to God, said Pope Benedict XVI at his Aug. 31 general audience. “Art is capable of making visible our need to ...

Here, in this store of unborn souls, they waited until the gods decided to place them in their mother’s belly. Aztec adults also firmly believed in the divine supervision of childbirth ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

They had a flourishing culture that produced elaborate works of art which were ... snake's connection to the Aztec gods, and especially to the great feathered serpent god, Quetzalcoatl: "The ...

Tapped to curate a new section of the fair, Yinka Shonibare, Zenib Sedira and Lubaina Himid discuss what has been lost, and gained, since Brexit hit the London art market. The collector and ...