...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...

... 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...

..., and pivotal Mesoamerican personage who characteristically straddles the worlds of history and myth and who finds his most illustrious representative in the figure of Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, ruler of Tollan. López Austin rightly saw that an exhaustive analysis of Quetzalcoatl would serve as a via...

... Las Casas, was the first writer to propose identifying the apostle with Topiltzin-Quétzalcóatl: Even though I wish to adhere to the Holy Gospel of Saint Mark, who states that God sent the Holy Apostles to all parts of the world to preach the Gospel to his creatures, promising eternal life to all...

... of radical historical change? Florescano’s first two chapters focus on Classic and Postclassic sources, and discuss four influences he argues shaped the sixteenth-century Quetzalcoatl: the Plumed Serpent, Venus, Nine Wind, and Tula’s Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl. Chapters 3 and 4 present interpretations...

... —literally, “deserving things.” 30 We can discern this, even though the Florentine Codex itself does not use tlamacehualiztli in relation to the list, from abundant use of the term in other passages of the codex. The archetypal priestly tlamacehualiztli routine established by Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl...

... postconquest constructions of the Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl epic. 93 The omens and other portents of impending doom, though they appear early—some as early as 1536—are all associated with the Franciscans, whose expectation was that the end of the world would be foreshadowed by portents. In their definitive...