Q: Qamate to Quikinna’qu 235
Quetzalcoatl
Toltec version of the Feathered Serpent, the white-skinned, light-eyed, blond,
bearded man who arrived at Vera Cruz on his “raft of serpents” accompanied by a
group of astrologers, scientists and physicians. Quetzalcoatl was the most important
Mesoamerican deity, regarded as the founding-father of civilization. The kingdom
from which he came across the Atlantic Ocean was called Tollan, the Toltec
Atlantis, described as a powerful, island-city of great, red-stone walls, recalling
Plato’s portrayal of Atlantean walls constructed of red tufa.
Quetzalcoatl was commonly depicted in sacred art as an Atlas-figure: a bearded
man surrounded by symbols of the sea, such as conch shells, and supporting the
sky. It is not clear which of the three major migrations from Atlantis with which
Quetzalcoatl was associated. In his Maya guise as Kukulcan, he was preceded in
Middle America by Itzamna, and must therefore have arrived in either the late
third millennium B.C. or after 1200 B.C.Quihuitl
Literally, “the Fire from Heaven,” third of the global catastrophes depicted in
its own square on the Aztec Calendar Stone as a sheet of descending flame. It
closed a former “Sun,” or world age, from which a few survivors rebuilt society.
The date 4-Quihuitl refers to the penultimate Atlantean cataclysm, in 2193 B.C.Quikinna’qu
Revered by Native American tribal peoples like the Koryak, Kamchadal, and
Chuckchee of coastal British Columbia as “the first man.” He was the only survivor
of an island that had been transformed into a whale by the Thunderbird. To escape
attack from its talons, the whale dove to the bottom of the sea, drowning everyone
on its back except Quikinna’qu, who floated on a log to what is now Vancouver
Island. There he married a native girl, whose children became the tribes of the
Pacific Northwest.
(See Mu)Stone frieze from the ceremonial megalopolis at Teotihuacan, depicting the culture-bearer of
Mesoamerican civilization, the Feathered Serpent.