Digging for Quetzalcoatl's Christian Roots
Table of Contents
Introduction
A Matter of Evidences
The Sources of the Quetzalcoatl Legend
Distortion by Interpretation
Distortion by Selection
An Element Analysis of the Christian Elements
Quetzalcoatl's Non-Native Clothing
Quetzalcoatl's Virgin Birth
Quetzalcoatl's Preaching of the One God
Quetzalcoatl's Benevolent Religion
The Bearded Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl as a White Man
Quetzalcoatl and the Myth of the Return
Reconstructing a Pre-Columbian Quetzalcoatl
Mormon Apologetics and the Quetzalcoatl Question
Methodological Issues: Use of Secondary Sources
Metholdological Issues: Use of Primary Sources
Methodological Issues: The Correspondence List as Evidence
The Apologetic Response the Quetzalcoatl Scholarship
Conclusions
by Brant Gardner. Copyright 1998