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saphariadragon β Quetzacoatl
Published: 2007-01-13 04:50:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 1056; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 12
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I am extremely proud of this one. This was done for a similar project as the ones i did of pegusas, anubis, and the roman grim reaper. This is in pencil and it took 5-6 hours. My wrist is sore from all the scales and the feathers (each one was done individually). Anyway this is the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, the god of light...Related content
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Nice drawing! ^^ I really like the colours.
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thank you ^^
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You're welcome!
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great piece...
(P.S. you spelled it right in the comments but forgot the other L in the title)
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oops and thanks ^^
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(I'm looking up there at the top of the page and nothing's different...)
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i have been lazy recently so yeah...
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you are forgiven
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i will probably get round to fixing it later
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well, that's good ^^
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OMG! i love that thing! ang great efert on it! wow! i love that feather snake look, it's the only reson i play neopets. so i can enter my hissi, witch looks lityuly just like your drawing XD in the art contest. [link] [it's bad quality, but it's not really done]
but really awsome drawing! {favs}
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Thank you so much. Yes i worked forever on this. I am very happy you like it. *scurries off to look at your entry wip*
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Wow.. been a while since I've seen one of those!
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heh heh my hand is well rested now, i made this a week or two ago.
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He's a cool god, I love his design and you drew him really awesome.
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I love how brightly colored this is!! Definatley a fav!
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wow this colours and the pose! very well drawn, you should be really proud of it!
I drew him once too XD
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thanks i am proud of him^^
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I see, very very very well done!
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Go Miyan dragon 
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Actually its aztec, thanks.
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The name Quetzalcoatl literally means "feathered snake". The Nahuatl word quetzalli means "long green feather" (Molina: ), but later came to be applied also to the bird who give these feathers: the Resplendent Quetzal. Quetzal feathers were a rare and precious commodity in the Aztec culture. So the combination of quetzalli "precious feather" and coatl "snake" has often been interpreted as signifying a serpent with the feathers of Quetzal. The meaning of his local name in other Mesoamerican languages is similar. The Maya of YucatΓ‘n knew him as Kukulk'an; the K'iche-Maya of Guatemala, as Guk'umatz, both names can be translated as "feathersnake".
A prototypical Mesoamerican serpent deity.The Feathered Serpent deity was important in art and religion in most of Mesoamerica for close to 2,000 years, from the Pre-Classic era until the Spanish conquest. Civilizations worshipping the Feathered Serpent included the Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec, Aztec, who adopted it from the people of Teotihuacan, and the Maya.
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Anyway he is mesoamerican, though most people seem to conect him with the toltecs and the aztecs.
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Yep though he did originate from the Myans, techincally we were both right in this case
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yeah actually i heard he originally came from the toltecs but with ancient civilizations in the americas its hard to tell.
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Ah very nice. ^^ Good work with the colouring!
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thanks the coloring took forever.
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wow such pretty wings! beautiful job!
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you're welcome
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thanks, it took ages.
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