The Mayan Mystery: Who was Kukulcan and Quetzalcoatl

Ancient Deities with Possible Origins in Atlantis!

Chris Tidwell
In the ancient world there are many mysteries, but none as perplexing as those found in the Mayan culture. From their beginnings to their mysterious disappearance the Mayan's have baffled us all. One fact that has stumped many is actually one of the figures that is found throughout Mayan religion, the Serpent God, Kukulcan.

Kukulcan is one of the three gods that was thought to have created the Earth. He is a serpent in his natural form and was responsible for teaching the Mayan's about such things as how to run a civilization, agriculture, and medicine. After a brief period of being on Earth Kukulcan returned to the ocean telling the Mayans that he would return at some later date. Mayans perceived European settlers as the second coming of their god Kukulcan and this was eventually lead to the trust between the two cultures, and the eventual defeat of the Mayans culture. The baffling question is, why would the Mayans think that European settlers were gods? Did they look anything like what the Mayans perceived as Kukulcan? The answer is yes!

Kukulcan had a human form as well as his feathered serpent form. Kukulcan would transform into a man standing about 6 feet tall with long white hair, but most interestingly he was a male Caucasian man with white skin! We find writing from the Mayans and sculptures of what is thought to be Kukulcan and they depict a very European looking figure, totally different from how the Mayan's looked.

Mayan's were dark skinned Latin looking people. They were normally not very tall and had brown eyes. Kukulcan in his human form was a complete contrast, having white or silver hair, white skin, blue eyes, and he was tall. Scientist and scholars alike have all wondered why this could have been the case? Why would a civilization have a divine figure, a god that looked nothing like themselves? Why would he look like people found in Western civilization? One theory actually involves the lost city of Atlantis!

Some would think that once Atlantis as described by Plato sank into the ocean some of its citizens would have survived. One man, Kukulcan, could have made his way into Mesoamerica and taught the Mayan's the secrets of his lost city. This fits the profile of what Kukulcan would have been like, coming from the sea, looking like a European, and teachings of government, medicine, and agriculture, all fit into the idea that Kukulcan could have been from the ancient Atlantis. Also when he left, this mystery man could have traveled across Mexico and found those form the Aztec civilization.

Aztecs worshiped a similar god, Quetzalcoatl, who also matches the description of Kukulcan. Quetzalcoatl taught many of the same things as Kukulcan and once Spanish conquistadors began to arrive in Mesoamerica they were also accepted as gods by the Aztecs. This would lead some to believe that both Quetzalcoatl, and Kukulcan were indeed the same deity, or man as it may be the case.

Both the Mayan and Aztec civilizations remain mostly undiscovered and many mysteries surround both, but still the legend of Kukulcan and his many temples and statues astound and baffle scientist, and will for centuries to come.

Published by Chris Tidwell

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  • Ricky 3/9/2011

    Solutrean Hypothesis

  • Stefan 12/19/2010

    The Devil at work for sure....

  • kukulcan 10/5/2010

    @Pokomam you are right

  • kukulcan 10/5/2010

    @Cioran i agree with you

  • truthhurts 9/30/2010

    Its odvious that it was the devil himself(Caucasian man with white skin, white or silver hair,blue eyes)Master shape-shifter he is just as with all angels,which in the bible he is side to be a serphent or dragon that fell from heaven. 2012 might be the coming of the anti-christ, just think about it,the chips are already being made and people are already accepting them. Just look up RF-ID chip(Rockerfelle) on Youtube.

  • running fox 9/19/2010

    I say that kukulkan was an alien, he came from the heavens, or beyond is more accurate.it would make sense in that is a reason the maya were so obsessive over astronomy, in fact the mayan calendar isn't a calendar at all, more accurate to say it is a count down. A count down for when kukulkan will or believed to return. and think, the Europeans and other civilizations would have eventually derived from these serpents to be dragons, they appear in many places, so it isn't a far thing to say dragons are extra-terrestrial!

  • Pokomam 7/11/2010

    In Mayan history there is no such thing as a bearded, white skinned God. This is utter non-sense. I was born to the Pokomam Maya. That Kukulkan was a feathered serpent is also incorrect. Kukulkan is God incarnate, who is suppose to return. The feathers just represents his ability to go to the heavens. The Mayan people as a whole did not view Europeans as superior only as intruders and liars.

  • Candace 1/30/2010

    I had a vision is 1993. I awoke about 3 AM in the Morning to the brightest Light that was very illuminating... I looked at it was a man floating above the foot of my bed. He had long, white robe with a bright golden rope around his waist and long beard and hair that was white and started back from his forehead. He had feathered wings, white and soft like a birds feathers. I was scared and hid under my covers and said the "Lords prayer three times before I would look out from the covers to see if he was still there... He was there to my amazement! I touched my eyes to see if they were open and to make sure I was not dreaming. Then, I asked him why me? Me someone of no importance, why would he come to me? Me a sinner??? He said to me not in words but mentally, like telepathy, it is not how much you sin but how much "love" you have in your heart that matters... I will never forget this dream or vision as long as I will live on earth. I am full-blood native american and the next da

  • Sebastian 1/21/2010

    Latin looking people. lol!

  • Cioran 1/18/2010

    LMayans were latin looking pople? haha, this is funny, just tells me how ignorant is Chris Tidwell. Latins were originated in the central part of Italy, where the latin language came from and from there extended to France, Romania, France, Portugal, parts of Croatia, parts of Switzerland, etc. Those are the latin looking people, not the mayans, who has nothing to do with them, but now, those territories settled by the mayans are now in what we call Latin America, named Latin America, becuse their first European settlers were Portuguese, Spaniards and French.... Aberrant and unfortunate witter....

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