Mirrors were thought of as a means of peering into the world of the supernatural, they were a means of discovering what would occur in the future. Thus stated Annabeth Headrick, University of Denver ...

The museum also houses two 15th-century deerskin codices detailing the political and religious histories of the Mixtec people, a sculpture of the plumed serpent deity Quetzalcóatl and a carved stone ...

The serpent and the rope are standard metaphors in Indic thought, used to connote the unreal and the real in creation. These metaphors have been used from vedic times to the present day.

as well as the Great Compound with the Temple of Quetzalcoatl (also known as Temple of the Plumed Serpent) stand out. One characteristic of the city’s civil and religious architecture is the ...

Red Tezcatlipoca, or the “Flayed One,” is most often known as Xipe Totec. And White Tezcatlipoca, the “Plumed Serpent,” can be seen as Quetzalcoatl. It’s important to acknowledge this strange dual ...

In Mexico’s ancient Maya culture, the plumed serpent Kukulkan was the deity of agriculture who brought rain; it was the most revered of the Maya gods. In Sri Lanka, a sorcerer dons a fearsome ...

The viceroy took the place of Montezuma; Christ became the altar ego of the god Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent and savior who can both soar like a bird and slither like a snake. In 17th century ...

The Serpent Queen, based on the book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda, is about the life of Catherine de’ Medici, the 16th century Queen of France. In the second ...

“The Serpent Queen” has been canceled after Season 2 at Starz. A spinoff series focused on Queen Elizabeth The First is currently in development at the network as it looks to continue its ...

The Serpent Queen' (L-R): Minnie Driver, as Queen Elizabeth I, Samantha Morton, as Catherine De Medici Stephanie Branchu/Starz/Courtesy Everett Collection EXCLUSIVE: Starz is not proceeding with a ...

The prolific Japanese auteur's third film to premiere this year is an effective French-language remake of his nasty, twisty 1998 thriller of the same name. There’s no urgent reason to remake ...

That ambition led to Harrison's writing of “Song of Quetzalcoatl.” Doug Lofstrom, another American composer, also took interest in Quetzalcóatl, calling his work “The Plumed Serpent.” The bottom line ...