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  Feathered Serpent - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Feathered Serpent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This 66 m/216 ft high pyramid made of coarse red volcanic rock was built by the Teotihuacán civilization at the beginning of the first millennium.
In pre-Columbian cultures of Central America, a feathered serpent god of air and water.
In his human form, he was said to have been fair-skinned and bearded and to have reigned on Earth during a golden age.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Feathered+Serpent   (192 words)

  
 The Truth About "The God Makers," 14
The serpent is sometimes representative of Satan and evil, as in the Garden of Eden occurrences, but sometimes the serpent also represents Christ, as when Moses put a serpent on a pole to show the children of Israel the symbol of Christ's coming atonement.
The fact that the feathers are part of the Quetzalcoatl image, some have speculated, is because Christ, when he visited the Western Hemisphere, descended from the heavens; hence the bird-like portion of the serpent.
Latter-day Saints believe that since the feathered serpent figure represents a white god, the origin of this concept could be a belief in Christ's appearance in ancient America.
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