>>49828311>>49828351>>49828371>>49828318>>49828397>>49828447>>49829067>>49829132>>49829161>>49829208>>49830737>>49830893>>49831743I do think it's likely it's based on Chilis (which were domesticated in Mexico), but the feathered serpent stuff is probably zodiac-cope and people who watched the lockstin video
As I've said in many threads now, it doesn't even make sense for a quetzalcoatl pokemon to be fire type: To 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 it had aquatic associations, etc
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:
pastebin.com/0wPxh1MF; I forgot to note there how the wind and intellectual stuff ties together, 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
Not that I think it will, but Xiuhcoatl would make more sense: a fire/lightening rattlesnake sometimes said/shown to carry the sun through the sky, 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 lightening causes bush fires), but it could be interpeteated as a staff or a sword, IIRC
