Quetzalcoatl (feathered serpent)

The Feathered Serpent. The precious twin who lifts the sun out of darkness, the breath of life, first lord of the Toltecs. Lawgiver, civilizer, creator of the calender. Demons tempted Quetzalcoatl constantly to commit murder and human sacrafice, but his love was too great for him to succumb . To atone for great sin Quetzalcoatl threw himself into a funeral pyre, where his ashes rose to the heavens as a flock of birds carrying his heart to the star Venus. A friezein the palace at Teotihuacan shows his first entry into the world in the shape of a crysalis, from which he struggles to emerge as a butterfly, the symbol of perfection. Quetzalcoatl is by far the most compassionate of the Aztec Gods. He only demands one human sacrafice a year. The image is 7" x 10.5" and is in the center of the shirt.