Quetzalcoatl bringing smallpox to the new world. B&W gesso and graphite on wood panel 24x24”. This new Quetzalcoatl is a mashup of the Greek proto-god Phanes and Quetzalcoatl plumed serpent, bringing smallpox from the old world to the new.
500 hundred years ago, On May 22nd in the year 1520, Spanish conquistadors and their Indigenous allies attacked the Mexicas The attack during the Toxcatl festival in what is now Mexico City incited a war that led to the end of Mexica supremacy, and to the beginning of the conquest of Mexico. Cortez was allegedly seen as the embodiment of the return of the plumed serpent god Quetzalcoatl, patron saint of Aztec priesthood, triumphantly returning to Mexico from the east.
In their bloody battles for domination over the Aztecs and the spreading of smallpox, Cortés and his men are estimated to have killed as many as 100,000 indigenous people.
I intend to use this painting as a flash card in my film/animation project Gothic Aztecs, a historical revisionist fantasy about a subverted human sacrifice in a modern post-Aztec invaded modern Europe.
500 hundred years ago, On May 22nd in the year 1520, Spanish conquistadors and their Indigenous allies attacked the Mexicas The attack during the Toxcatl festival in what is now Mexico City incited a war that led to the end of Mexica supremacy, and to the beginning of the conquest of Mexico. Cortez was allegedly seen as the embodiment of the return of the plumed serpent god Quetzalcoatl, patron saint of Aztec priesthood, triumphantly returning to Mexico from the east.
In their bloody battles for domination over the Aztecs and the spreading of smallpox, Cortés and his men are estimated to have killed as many as 100,000 indigenous people.
I intend to use this painting as a flash card in my film/animation project Gothic Aztecs, a historical revisionist fantasy about a subverted human sacrifice in a modern post-Aztec invaded modern Europe.
