Monday, August 24, 2009

Is there a Connection Between Jesus and Quetzalcoatl?

Quetzalcoatl as depicted in the Codex Telleria...Image via Wikipedia


I've been doing several posts in the past several months examining connections of ancient gods and legends to Jesus. I've been challenged by some twitter users pushing the notion that stories and teachings about Jesus' acts and teachings are stolen from past cultures. So far I have not been able to find a single connection. This post is no different focusing on the Aztec deity known as Quetzalcoatl (on the right).

I was told on twitter that Jesus is stolen from Quetzalcoatl because Quetzalcoatl was virgin born. I decided to research Quetzalcoatl because his name seemed familiar. Quetzalcoatl was deity from Aztec mythology. He was white and gave the Aztecs directions to live and promised to return someday. It was for this reason that when Hernando Cortez arrived in 1518, Cortez was mistaken for Quetzalcoatl. Unfortunately before Christian colonization there is no way to be sure how much the Quetzalcoatl stories have no Christian influence. To assert otherwise is to assume that separate cultures on opposite sides of the earth and millenniums apart came up with much the same story. No way, can anyone make that fly.

So one has to have influenced the other, right? There was no documented interaction between the Aztecs and Europe until after 1518 and considering that the Aztecs lost the culture war, it doesn't make sense to say that Christianity took anything from the Aztecs when Christianity had already been around for 1500 years.

Of course, the idea that a Jesus Christ-like figure who visited and ministered among the Aztecs is great for the Mormons who try to use it to prove the Book of Mormon. On the left is a picture Mormons use to illustrate the Book of Mormon. We also must point out that the Mormon texts do not mention the Aztecs and does not take place in Mexico or Central America, but in North America with no Archaeological evidence. Of course in comparing the Quetzalcoatl with Jesus we find precious little to match. For example Quetzalcoatl is white. Jesus is not white. He is Jewish. Quetzalcoatl was going to come back and rule over the Aztecs. Jesus will rule over the whole earth. Critics also push the similarity that both Quetzalcoatl and Jesus were tempted. However Quetzalcoatl gave in to temptation committing incest and becoming drunk but Jesus never gave in. They are in no way comparable. And one cannot even say such false claims substantiate the Book of Mormon either.


http://www.kingdavid8.com/Copycat/JesusQuetzalcoatl.html
http://text.farmsresearch.com/publications/jbms/?vol=11&num=1&id=298
http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/id1067.html





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4 comments:

  1. bossmanhamAugust 26, 2009 at 9:00 PM

    Great post!

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 22, 2009 at 9:34 AM

    actualy the jews are white! Its the musslims and arabians that are dark skinned. And The Book of Mormon takes place in all of the american continent. If you have read it you should know. As well as that how could it mention the Aztecs as Aztecs if that is a name archaeologists put? Their origanal name was lamanites. There are many things that science will never be able to prove. We invite all to read The Book of Mormon to find out for themselves.

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  3. mmcelhaneySeptember 22, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    Not all muslims are dark-skinned and not all muslims are Arabs. There is no archaeological evidence supporting the The Book of Mormom. Not all Jews are white. All the major events in the Mormon stories seem to have been said to happen in North America. The Lamites, according to the Book of Mormon lived in North America. The war that apparently wiped them out was in New York State. No evidence for it at all. The Aztecs most definitely were not white. I totally agree that everyone must read the The Book of Mormon for themselves. I would love to see an ordered response to all of the points I have raised.

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  4. CaelMarch 8, 2011 at 10:04 PM

    LOL

    "Jesus is not white. He is Jewish."

    Bro, Jewish isn't a colour, nor is it a race, nor has it A SINGLE THING TO DO WITH GENETICS!

    The Aztecs believed THEY WERE THE WORLD, therefore, Quetzalcoatl, by ruling over the Aztecs would rule over the whole world.

    PS, shouldn't have brought the book of mormon into it, because it has no merit nor credible history [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rewlk-pLzs]

    And to set you all straight:

    * the Caucasian race or white race
    * the Mongolian or yellow race
    * the Malayan or brown race
    * the Ethiopian, or black race
    * the American or red race.

    Do you see any JEWISH race in there?
    ISLAMIC/MUSLIM is not a race or ethnicity either.

    I been to Israel and JEWS come in ALL COLOURS!

    and PS: People born in ISRAEL are not JEWS, they are ISRAELI

    ;-)

    PPS: they are comparable
    - they were/are both deified
    - they were/are both worshipped
    - they were/are of the same origin
    - they were/are from cultures which grew up around OLDER cultures pre-existing them.

    MESO-AMERICAN HISTORY - GET IT IN YA!

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