ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the shock produced by the meeting of two worlds that fascinate and loathe each other than the Mexican Carlos Fuentes. But what Fuentes and many others among Latin America's finest writers have taken from the culture is the myth of the Feathered Serpent the educating, peaceful god who promised to return. In the socio-political context of the South American continent, people can see why and how the meaning of the myth of Quetzalcoatl has been constantly reinterpreted. In mesoamerican archaeology the Feathered Serpent is an omnipresent motif. However one chooses to explain it coincidence, fulfilment of the promise. The theme of the twin which appears in almost all Hernan Cortes works: in Terra nostra Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca are the two sides of a single personality: It was he again. It was the author, the same face that the mirror jealously hidden beneath his torn clothes faithfully reproduced.
