The Feathered Serpent, regardless of the name used by the culture designating or invoking this spirit, with names such as Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan, and Q'uq'umatz, amongst others, was an aspect of the Absolute Being, which the Mayans called Hunab Ku.
In his letters to King Charles, Cortés claimed to have learned at this point that he was considered by the Aztecs to be either an emissary of the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl or Quetzalcoatl himself – a belief which has been contested by a few modern historians.
They united with some groups of Indians, pushing others into what is now El Salvador, recognizing Cortés as a villain, not Quetzalcoatl, or the great white God returned, as the Náhuatl, or Aztec leadership supposed at that time.
Quetzalcóatl International Airport was named after Quetzalcoatl from the Aztec Religion who was a benefactor god, considered a leader among the deities, that would return after his departure to take back the empire.
The original working title of an early draft was "Quetzalcoatl", a reference to the cult of the plumed serpent in Mexico.
Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl, a mythologised figure supposed to have been a 10th-century ruler in Tollan (Tula), the "Toltec" capital in pre-Columbian Mexico
Ehecatl the Wind, often conflated with Quetzalcoatl and called "Quetzalcoatl-Ehecatl"
The book pivots on "fingerprints" of these civilizations, evidence of which Hancock finds in the descriptions of Godmen like Osiris, Thoth, Quetzalcoatl, and Viracocha.
Ancient designs include fretwork, a symbol for Quetzalcoatl, the scepter of Quetzalcoatl, related to Ursa Major, an “S” form called an ilhuitl and a cross with branches of equal length which represents the cardinal directions.