Thats pretty cool Ara! ^. .^

This is made of awesome and win

this is good but need a little more detail to be realistic

please remember that some artists are not professionally trained art school mavens. also, Ara doesn't work in a Realistic style (that I've ever seen).

a) Realistic as oppose to stone painting / stylised carving depiction
b) See 'work in progress'

Sounds like a good project to work on... I'll look forward to all the others :>

don't forget thefeathers, Bris.

I'm not giving him 'feathers' as such but a expandable frill, like certain lizards. It will look like feathers to awe inspired, fearful lesser beings.

good enough fer me. tho I always saw Qetzal with 'em somewhere, in my mind.

I'll be very interested in your take on the Rainbow Serpent.

is there a dragon from Native North America?

Not that I know of. But they did have a giant flying bear-condor thingie though.

"The worship of Quetzalcoatl sometimes included animal sacrifices, and in most traditions Quetzalcoatl was said to oppose human sacrifice."


"he is often found in the myths relating to Creation and the deeds that would label him a cultural hero."
-- Myth has it that Quetzalcoatl did the following for humanity:

* Named all of the landmarks of the Earth (mountains, seas, etc.)
* Discovered maize
* Created fire (in the guise of Mixcoatl)
* Established the maguey culture -- octli brewing and ceremonial drunkenness
* Gave instruction of music and dance
* Cured eye ailments, blindness, coughs, skin afflictions; gave the priests the practice of curandero, the diagnostic casting of lots ( a sort of medical divination )
* Helped with fertility problems
* Sired royal lineages
* Established the priesthood -- gave proper instruction of sacrifice and created the Tonalmatal (Book of the Destiny Days)
* Domesticated animals.

"Quetzalcoatl is either directly involved in the actual process or acts as humanity's protector."


Also, if you actually read about Quetzalcoatl, you will see that He has a temple called "Temple of the Sun"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~anthclub/que.....lcoatl/que.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/quetzalcoatl.html

Now where the heck did you get such wrong infomation about Quetzalcoatl? =//

I got my information from books. You know, things made of paper that sit on your shelf?

Just because its from a book, does not make it any more true.

More reliable than the internet.

heh not really sure about that, i've done research on Quetzalcoatl, and i can say that what you refer to here, may be misunderstood for "Kukulkan" also a serpent, but with "dark" intensions, Quetzalcoatl came with good intensions. =))

Whatever. I have said repeatedly that this is the dragon god that inspired the legend, not the legend itself.

Congrats on the awesomest Quetzacoatl image i have ever seen. This is soo cool!