Isaiah 14:29, For out of the serpents root shall come forth a cocatrice, and his fruit shall be a firey flying serpent.

Quetzalcoatl or "feathered snake" as the translation goes, was a popular diety amid the ancient civilizations of America, rooted as far back as the Toltecs, Myans, Aztecs, and even the Olmecs; (who were known as one of the founding civilizations of Mesoamerican culture.) In it's purest form this diety has several features remanicant of Christ. Known as the creator and sky God, he was a wise legislator and organized the cosmos amid several world cataclysms. He is known to be the sole inventor of the human race in a somewhat elucid old testament fasion.

     In a more curious event, the story of his traveling to the Mictlan underworld to gather the bones of humans, and sprinkle his own blood on them to create the lives of previous eras, and a prophecized return, reflects a form of self sacrifice for the good of all creation. 

" He is also a god of the wind (the wind-god Ehecatl is one of his forms), as well as a water-god and fertility-god.

He is regarded as a son of the virgin goddess Coatlicue and as the twin brother of Xolotl. As the bringer of culture he introduced agriculture (maize) and the calendar and is the patron of the arts and the crafts.

Quetzalcoatl, described as light-skinned and bearded, would return in a certain year. Thus, when the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés appeared in 1519, the Aztec king, Montezuma II, was easily convinced that Cortés was in fact the returning god.

The Aztec later made him a symbol of death and resurrection and a patron of priests. The higher priests were called Quetzalcoatl too. The god has a great affinity with the priest-king Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl, who ruled the Toltecs in Tula in the 10th century. The cult of Quetzalcoatl was widespread in Teotihuacan (ca. 50km northeast of Mexico City), Tula (or Tullán, capitol of the Toltecs in middle Mexico), Xochilco, Cholula, Tenochtitlan (the current Mexico City), and Chichen Itza.

Duality itself runs rampant in myth, as well as being found in the astronomical/cosmological associations between Quetzalcoatl and the heavens and stars. Questions run the gamut from his morning star associations (as Venus) to the possibilities of his connection with Mercury. Ultimately it is this symbolism that runs through the myth and its astrological and cosmological incarnations which raise the questions and hint at Quetzalcoatl's power and pervasiveness among these ancient cultures. The popular aztec calender was also said to have been given to them by Quetzalcoatl.