Quetzalcoatl was a plumed serpent god who brought the knowledge of science and mathematics to his people. After the Maya, the Aztecs too worshiped a serpent god. Feathered serpents were also depicted in much of their art, possibly implying the creatures had the ability to fly. Sources cite the Chanes as being led across the sea by the serpent god Itzamna, who ruled by his esoteric knowledge rather than strength. In Central America, the ancient Mayan book, Chilam Balam, claims that the first people to inhabit the Yucatan were the Chanes or People of the Serpent. The ancestral spirits were immortal, said to have originated from another planet and graciously combined their DNA with animals on Earth. The twins were half human and half snake, according to the ethnic group of Mali and Upper Volta called the Dogon. The god also created a set of twins, the primitive beings, called Nummo. In African mythology, an ancient god created the sun, moon and thereafter the earth, which he fashioned from a lump of clay. The symbol is one of the oldest and most commonly used across a myriad of ancient cultures to symbolize wisdom, death, resurrection, fertility and procreation. The word serpent comes from the Latin serpens, meaning a creeping thing or snake.
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