Note: I’ve lumped all previous posts about this book under the reviews category. I’m not really hitting every topic from every chapter as I want to have a life but I’m enjoying the hunt for information that compliments or refutes what’s in it. So, moving on..
I think Thomas R. Horn is somewhat self absorbed. Here we are at chapter 8 of his book (related site), Nephilim Stargates: the year 2012 and the return of the Watchers and he’s making the reader read an excerpt from another book he co-wrote called The Ahriman Gate, a fictionalized version of the “non-fiction” topics covered in this book. Quetzalcoatl is one of the characters in this work of fiction (“or is it?” asks the tabloidish website devoted to the novel), and he’s not the good guy of the piece:
Quetzalcoatl leaned forward and smiled, allowing Kevin to focus on the arm piece dangling from his mouth.
Kevin looked confused, then burst into screaming as he began kicking at the demon, bouncing rocks and dust off the monster’s scaly hide.
Trembling with delight, Quetzalcoatl laughed and chewed the mouthful of arm, grinding it in his teeth. His nocturnal eyes, dead and predatory, rolled up like a great white shark’s as he lurched forward and slurped the rest of Kevin’s body into his hyperextended jaws.
Turning violently, he dragged Kevin down the Avenue of the Dead, over the rough pathway toward the Chacmool, shredding his waist with his fangs as he went, deep enough to torture but not enough to kill him. Seconds later, near the ancient altar, he thrust his forked tongue into Kevin’s chest cavity and scooped out his heart, slapping it on the Chacmool with a crimson splash. Flipping the remainder of Kevin’s carcass into his hideously large gullet, he ground the human remains into oblivion.
Let’s add some fact to the fictitious depiction, shall we? According to pantheon.org, Quetzalcoatl was considered to be the creator god for the Aztecs and other groups of the time. He’s credited with introducing agriculture to the people, as well as culture – he was a patron of the arts. Also:
In one myth the god allowed himself to be seduced by Tezcatlipoca, but threw himself on a funeral pyre out of remorse. After his death his heart became the morning-star, and is as such identified with the god Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli. In dualistic Toltec religion, the opposing deity, Tezcatlipoca (“Smoking Mirror”), a god of the night, had reputedly driven Quetzalcoatl into exile. According to yet another tradition he left on a raft of snakes over the sea. In any case, Quetzalcoatl, described as light-skinned and bearded, would return in a certain year. Thus, when the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés appeared in 1519, the Aztec king, Montezuma II, was easily convinced that Cortés was in fact the returning god.
Cortes had a different agenda. His attempts at converting the locals to Christianity was something of a disaster. A new religion wasn’t all they brought, though; the war might have been a little easier to win, what with the enemy dropping dead of all European diseases that came along for the ride.
Queztalcoatl is known as the “Feathered Serpent” so it’s probably no big surprise people would equate him with Satan. Plus, Lucifer is also known as “morning star”, which is another name people call the devil (though perhaps wrongly).
He’s also considered to be the inventor of books and the calendar that gets so much attention. Later on, he became a god of death and resurrection and priests did engage in human sacrifice, but not for Quetzalcoatl’s benefit and the reasons behind it might surprise you.
