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Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl

Type Figure Region central Mexico Time c. 895–947 Also known as Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl、Cē Ācatl Topiltzin、Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl、Quetzalcoatl of Tollan

Ce Acatl Topiltzin is a mythologized 10th-century Toltec priest-king in 16th-century Nahua tradition, often conflated with the Feathered Serpent Quet…

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  1. c. 923–947Tula-Xicocotitlan · HidalgoTradition holds that he entered Tollan as priest and warrior, promoted Feathered Serpent worship and restricted human sacrifice, then departed eastward after conflict with the Tezcatlipoca faction. These episodes come from colonial-era indigenous and Spanish texts and cannot be treated as 10th-century chronological fact.

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