...Matthew Restall Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs . By Nicholson H. B. . Mesoamerican Worlds: From the Olmecs to the Danzantes . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2001 . Photographs. Plates. Illustrations. Map. Bibliography. Index . lxiv , 360...

...D. A. Brading Quetzalcóatl y los mitos fundadores de Mesoamérica . By Florescano Enrique . Mexico City : Santillana Ediciones Generales , 2004 . Photographs. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 386 pp. Paper . Copyright 2005 by Duke University Press 2005...

...León García Garagarza The Myth of Quetzalcoatl: Religion, Rulership, and History in the Nahua World . By López Austin Alfredo . Translated by Davidson Russ with Olivier Guilhem . Foreword by Carrasco Davíd . Boulder : University Press of Colorado , 2015 . Illustrations...

...Byron Hamann On one level, then, Florescano’s arguments seem to parallel Covarrubias’s chart after all: The Myth of Quetzalcoatl both illustrates and provides an explanation for striking continuities across time and space. Yet at the same time, Florescano insists that “Quetzalcoatl...

...Apen Ruiz Martinez [email protected] In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico's Ancient Civilizations . By Merilee Grindle . Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press , 2023 . Photographs. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index...

... and secondary. There seems to be no true conclusions drawn regarding Quetzalcóatl and his (their) place in the early cultures of Mexico (and, to an extent, Central America). Had the author taken a stand on the situation; had he more carefully delineated among the man, the god, and the mythological...

...Charles Gibson Quetzalcóatl . By Infante Fernando Díaz . Xalapa , 1963 . Departmento Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana . Cuadernos de la facultad de filosfía, letras y ciencias. No. 18 . Notes. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 93 . Paper . Copyright 1964 by Duke...

.... The first is a scholarly and at times inspired analysis of the history of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century growth, and of some of the uses, of the myths of Quetzalcóatl and the Virgin of Guadalupe. This analysis has been summed up in a review by John Phelan of the book’s original, French edition...

... zones and of ethnic communities which have in common the worship of the Virgin of Guadalupe and Mexico City as an urban focus. What created the special character of Mexican nationality was the symbiosis of the Indian myth of Quetzalcóatl and the Spanish Christian myth of Guadalupe...

...) and ends with B. de Sahagún and D. Durán, treating all these sources with what Carrasco calls “hermeneutic suspicion” (p. 47). Chapter 2 sifts out the usable evidence on myths and prophecies concerning Quetzalcoatl. Here Carrasco depends in addition on the methods of various kinds of historians of religion...

...Miguel León-Portilla The Phoenix of the Western World: Quetzalcoatl and the Sky Religion . By Brundage Burr Cartwright . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1981 . Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvi , 349 . Cloth . Copyright 1983 by Duke University Press...

... 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Altmexikanische Religion und christliche Heilsbotschaft: Mexiko zwischen Quetzalcóatl und Christus . By Nebel Richard . Immensee : Neue Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft , 1983 . Maps. Bibliography. Notes. Index . Pp. xxxvii , 393 . Paper. ...

... years ago Nicholson concluded his doctoral dissertation on Quetzalcoatl and the Toltecs of central Mexico with this challenge: From this brief and quite inadequate review, then, it is clear that, chronologically, the Toltec and Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl problems are still very far from solution...

... such as Plutarch, while the former follows European forms and values but recalls indigenous historians such as Quetzalcoatl and pre-Hispanic rulers. Kauffmann presents Alva Ixtlilxochitl's writings as a mixed form of assimilation that moves between the Nahua and the European tradition of historical writing...

... Press 1965 Boland offers a long array of individuals and races who “discovered” America before Columbus. Every piece of evidence, real or fantastic, is grist for his mill. Paleolithic men, the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Chinese, Ireland’s Saint Brendan, the various Norsemen, Quetzalcoatl, Prince...

... development was the work of the eighteenth-century creole clergy who sought to create a Mexican identity by glorifying the preconquest Indian past, purging idolatry from it through identifying Quetzalcóatl with the Apostle St. Thomas, and propagating the cult of the Virgin of Guadalupe. During the insurgency...

...Louis-André Vigneras * The author is Professor Emeritus, George Washington University. Copyright 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 Two years ago, Professor Jacques Lafaye published a most interesting and challenging book, entitled Quétzalcóatl et Guadalupe (Paris, 1974...

... of historical development in the Aztec world. The most convincing and compassionate portrayal of a personality in this study is not Hernán Cortés but Moctezuma II. Padden’s central thesis is not original—that Moctezuma’s initial response was conditioned by his fear that Cortés was the returned Quetzalcóatl...

... and not the political and historic process of transformation, certain critiques can be leveled against them. In the first case, although Schwaller refers to Michel Graulich's proposal regarding the substitution of Quetzalcoatl by Huitzilopochtli (see pp. 153–54), he prefers to think that the god that Huitzilopochtli...

.... In one of her performances she assumes the voice of Quetzalcoatl, the mythical feathered serpent associated with the headdress, stating, “I am Quetzalcóatl the feathered serpent. . . . I was a priest banished from the ancient city of Tula” (p. 30). This reflection is particularly cringeworthy in a work...