Vintage Aztec Brooch Gold Overlay Diety orders Vintage Sterling Pin Mixed Metal Round Brooch Guatemala 925 Quetzalcoatl Signed

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Vintage Sterling Silver pin from Guatemala is enhanced with a gold wash and features the plumed god Quetzalcoatl. Beautiful workmanship in very good condition.

In the legends, he appears as a tall, white man, much different from the Indians of Middle America. In the end his own people force him into exile and he leaves, promising to return.

When Hernán Cortés arrived at what is now Veracruz in Mexico in 1519, Moctezuma II's scouts rapidly bore word of the appearance of this strange man—a white man—from the east. Moctezuma may have been reluctant to use force against the small band of Spanish adventurers because he thought that Cortés was Quetzalcoatl.

The Maya of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula know Quetzalcoatl as Kukulcán, and their cousins...the Quiché Maya of Guatemala...know Quetzalcoatl as Gugumatz.

Signed on the back: Guatemala 925 MTL (meaning mixed metal)

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Width: 1.75" diameter
Weight: 9.2 Grams


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