Two names this morning: Quetzalcoatl (the mythical plumed serpent), Hoatzin (the extravagantly plumed bird). Quetzalcoatl. From Wikipedia: Quetzalcoatl … (Classical Nahuatl: Quetzalcohuātl …) is a Mesoamerican deity whose name comes from the Nahuatl language and means “feathered serpent”. The worship of a feathered serpent is first known documented in Teotihuacan in the first century BCE … Continue reading Names for plumed creatures, mythical and real