>>49824826>>49824852>>49824955>>49824937>>49824885>>49825363>>49826343>>49825834This is like the 4th time I've posted this in 3 days, but the bigger issue is that it makes zero sense for quetzalcoatl to be fire type
As worshipped by the Aztec, he was tied to learning and high culture: Priesthood, song, poetry, etc; or to the wind in his Ehecatl aspect. Across Mesoamerica in general, Feathered Serpents represented a dualism and boundaries/transgressing of the heavens and earth with the avian/serpent theming; to the Teotihuacanos feathered serpents also had aquatic associations.
I talk more about this and "white god" stuff here
desuarchive.org/a/thread/193107477/#193118717 ; though I wasn't able to finish, you can see what would have been my final post here:
https://pastebin.com/0wPxh1MF; I also forgot to mention how Quetzalcoatl's wind and cultural elements tie into one another, as speech/song was depicted as spiral wind gusts from the mouth, likewise conches (with the spiral wind jewel pendant) both blowing air and producing sound; those spirals also visually tying into the step fret, waves, or a winding snake see pic, which ties into teotihuacano associations mentioned in the dump),etc
If you want a Mesoamerican fire snake, you want Xiuhcoatl, a fire/lightening rattlesnake said to carry the sun through the sky in some art, and which was used as a weapon by the war god Huitzliopotchli in a myth where he killed his sister/brothers as an allegory for the sun rising over the moon/stars (per most interpretations, tho that may actually be incorrect). Xiuhcoatl as a weapon is usually described as a zoomorphized atlatl, where the darts would be like lighting bolts (Xiuhcoatl is associated with the dry winter season where lightining causes bush fires), but I've read/seen some alternative interpetations where it's a staff or a sword, IIRC (or maybe I'm misrembering)
>>49826371To be fair there's more then one version of the feathered serpent
