What Aztec God Was Cortes Mistaken For?
What Aztec God Was Cortes Mistaken For? An unnerving series of coincidences led Montezuma to believe that perhaps Cortés was the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, who had promised to return one day to reclaim his kingdom. Quetzalcoatl, “the feathered serpent,” stood for the solar light, the morning star. Did Hernan Cortes pretend to be a god?