In 2022, Mexican activists hacked the audioguides for a bright green artifact made of these objects currently held in Vienna. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these things, which the amanteca class wove into artworks. The Aztec goddess Cōātlīcue (“koe-AT-lee-kway”) was magically impregnated by a ball of these things, out of which was born Huītzilōpōchtli (“wee-tsee-low-POTCH-tlee”).
ANSWER: feathers [accept plumage; accept plumas]
[10h] This goddess became enraged at her mother Cōātlīcue’s pregnancy by feathers, but she is defeated by Huītzilōpōchtli and her decapitated head is thrown into the air to be the moon. The Huēyi Teōcalli (“WAY-ee tay-oh-CALL-ee”) was excavated after the 1978 discovery of a stone depicting this goddess’s dismembered body.
ANSWER: Coyolxāuhqui (“koh-yohl-SHAO-kee”)
[10e] This other Aztec god was known as the “Feathered Serpent.” His heart turned into the planet Venus after he sacrificed himself on a funeral pyre.
ANSWER: Quetzalcoatl (“KET-sull-koh-AH-tull”)
<Jaimie Carlson, RMP - World Mythology> ~20955~ <Editor: Jaimie Carlson>