Qʼuqʼumatz was a deity of the Postclassic Kʼicheʼ Maya. Qʼuqʼumatz was the Feathered Serpent divinity of the Popol Vuh who created humanity together with the god Tepeu. Qʼuqʼumatz is considered to be the rough equivalent of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, of Kukulkan of the Yucatec Maya tradition, it is that the feathered serpent deity was borrowed from one of these two peoples and blended with other deities to provide the god Qʼuqʼumatz that the Kʼicheʼ worshipped. Qʼuqʼumatz may have had his origin in the Valley of Mexico. Qʼuqʼumatz may have been the same god as Tohil, the Kʼicheʼ sun god who had attributes of the feathered serpent, but they diverged and each deity came to have a separate priesthood. Qʼuqʼumatz was one of the gods who created the world in the Kʼicheʼ creation epic. Qʼuqʼumatz, god of wind and rain, was associated with Tepeu, god of lightning and fire. Both of these deities were considered to be the mythical ancestors of the Kʼicheʼ nobility by direct male line. Qʼuqʼumatz carried the sun across the sky and down into the underworld and acted as a mediator between the various powers in the Maya cosmos.

The deity was associated with water, the wind and the sky. Kotujaʼ, the Kʼicheʼ king who founded the city of Qʼumarkaj, bore the name of the deity as a title and was to have been a former priest of the god; the priests of Qʼuqʼumatz at Qʼumarkaj, the Kʼicheʼ capital, were drawn from the dominant Kaweq dynasty and acted as stewards in the city. The name translates as "quetzal serpent" although it is rendered less as "feathered serpent"; the name derives from the Kʼicheʼ word qʼuq, referring to the Resplendent quetzal Pharomachrus mocinno, a brightly coloured bird of the cloud forests of southern Mesoamerica. This is combined with the word kumatz "snake"; the male resplendent quetzal boasts iridescent blue-green tail feathers measuring up to 1 metre long that were prized by the Maya elite. The blue-green feathers symbolized vegetation and the sky, both symbols of life for the ancient Maya, while the bright red feathers of the bird's chest symbolized fire. Together, this combination gave a profound religious symbolism to the bird.

The snake was a Maya symbol of rebirth due to its habit of shedding its skin to reveal a fresher one underneath. Qʼuqʼumatz thus combined the celestial characteristics of the quetzal with the serpentine underworld powers of the snake, giving him power over all levels of the Maya universe; these characteristics indicated a sexual duality between his masculine feathered serpent aspect and his feminine association with water and wind. This duality enabled the god to serve as a mediator between the masculine sun god Tohil and the feminine moon goddess Awilix, a role, symbolized with the Mesoamerican ballgame. In ancient Maya highland texts Qʼuqʼumatz is associated with water, which in turn is associated with the underworld; the Kʼicheʼ are reported to have believed that Qʼuqʼumatz was a feathered serpent that moved in the water. In the Annals of the Cakchiquels, it is related that a group of highland Maya referred to themselves as the Gucumatz because their only salvation was said to be in the water.

The Kaqchikel Maya were linked to the Kʼicheʼ and one of their ancestors, was said to have thrown himself into Lake Atitlán and transformed himself into the deity, thus raising a storm upon the water and forming a whirlpool. Among the Kʼicheʼ Qʼuqʼumatz not only appeared as a feathered serpent, he was embodied as an eagle and a jaguar, he was known to transform himself into a pool of blood; the deity was sometimes represented by a snail or conch shell and was associated with a flute made from bones. As well as being associated with water, Qʼuqʼumatz was associated with clouds and the wind. Qʼuqʼumatz was not directly equivalent to the Mexican Quetzalcoatl, he combined his attributes with those of the Classic Period Chontal Maya creator god Itzamna and was a two headed serpentine sky monster that carried the sun across the sky. Sculptures of a human face emerging between the jaws of a serpent were common from the end of the Classic Period through to the Late Postclassic and may represent Qʼuqʼumatz in the act of carrying Hunahpu, the youthful avatar of the sun god Tohil, across the sky.

After midday, Qʼuqʼumatz continued into the west and descended towards the underworld bearing an older sun. Such sculptures were used as markers for the Mesoamerican ballgame. Since Qʼuqʼumatz acted as a mediator between Tohil and Awilix and their incarnations as the Maya Hero Twins Hunahpu and Ixbalanque, the positioning of such ballcourt markers on the east and west sides of north-south oriented ballcourts would represent Qʼuqʼumatz carrying the sun to the zenith with the east marker carrying Hunahpu/Tohil in its jaws, while the west marker would represent the descent of the sun into the underworld and would be carrying Ixbalanque/Awilix in its jaws. No ballgame markers are known from the heart of the Kʼicheʼ kingdom and investigators such as Fox consider it significant that these images of Q'uq'umatz carrying the sun are found in the eastern periphery facing the underworld due to the use of the ballgame in mediating political conflict; the various feathered serpent deities remained popular in Mesoamerican folk traditions after the Spanish conquest but by the 20th century Qʼuqʼumatz appeared only among the Kʼicheʼ.

A tradition was recorded by Juan de León that Qʼuqʼumatz assisted the sun god Tohil in his daily climb to the zenith. According to De León, who may have gathered the information from el

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Stephen Alexander Dantes is a Saint Lucian author and Spoken Word artiste, performing at different venues in USA, Canada and Saint Lucia. He is a youth activists and is best known for his poems,'Fair Helen','Rude Boy Reality','The Land the People and the Bottle','Recreating History','Country Boys of Darban','Where I'm from there is No Freedom','What if Juliet Never Found Romeo' and'Ode to Love'. Members of the Caribbean Sports fraternity know Dantes as the creator of the first Caribbean Sports website, SportCaraibe.net. Dantes was born on Sunday 12 December 1982, at the Saint Jude's hospital in Saint Lucia, he resided in Darban, Choiseul until he was 16yrs moved to Castries. His mother, Marcella Dantes, was a housewife at the time, his father, Stephen Alexander Henry, was a mechanic. However, his father abandoned his siblings when he was just seven, he has not seen his father. Dantes wrote his first poem. In Form-5, he compiled a small notebook with Reggae songs with a now deceased classmate, Aaron W. Phillip.

In the first year at A'Level, he wrote his second poem. In February 2013, in celebration of Independence Day, Dantes offered two poems as a gift to the country, entitled, "Fair Helen" and "The Land, The People and The Bottle", he released a comic strip where the superhero is decked in the national colours and he is seeking to engage young persons from age 10–19 will be naming the hero. At age 29, he had the privilege of claiming 14 published literary books to his name. Four of these are print. Most are available on Amazon.comDantes performed throughout St. Lucia in 2012 and embarked on a school tour to share and give back to the people. Schools toured: Vide Bouteille Secondary, Choiseul Secondary, Soufriere Secondary, Saltibus Combined, Banse La Grace Combined. Including but not limited to: Schools, Bars, Cafés and Lounges, National Arts Festival, HeadPhunk, Creative Industries Launch St. Lucia, Word Alive, Annual National Telethon St. Lucia, Charity Events, Graduation Ceremonies, Saint Lucian Writers Forum, Private Party, Guest Performances, Small scale Jazz events, New York USA, Georgia USA, Canada, CBC, Various media houses, TV and Radio.

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David Friedrich Weinland was a German zoologist and novelist. He studied theology and natural sciences in Tübingen worked as an assistant at the Zoological Museum in Berlin. From 1855 he conducted scientific investigations in Canada and the Caribbean. In 1859 he returned to Germany as director of the Frankfurt Zoological Garden — in this capacity he edited the journal "Der Zoologische Garten". Following the publication of Otto Hahn's 1880 work, Die Meteorite und ihre Organismen, Weinland publicly supported Hahn's theory regarding the chondrites. In 1881 Weinland, writing in the popular geographical journal Das Ausland, asserted the correctness of Hahn's attempt to classify the inclusions of the chondrites as organic, although modifying Hahn's original assignment of the genera, by stating that the chondrites are in fact nothing but fossiliferous rocks, i.e. the petrified remains of life-forms. He published in 1882 a treatise entitled Ueber die in Meteoriten entdeckten Thiereste in which he established sixteen new genera, each with multiple species.

He was the father of chemist Rudolf Friedrich Weinland. Eleutherodactylus weinlandi, Weinland's robber frog. Gastrotheca weinlandii, Weinland's marsupial frog. Ueber den beutelfrosch, 1854 – About the marsupial frog. "On the egg-tooth of snakes and lizards". "Human cestoides: an essay on the tapeworms of man". Zur Weichthierfauna der Schwäbischen Alb, 1876 – Mollusks of the Swabian Alb. Rulaman Erzählung aus der Zeit des Höhlenmenschen und des Höhlenbären, 1878 Rulaman, a story from the time of cavemen and cave bears. Kuning Hartfest: ein Lebensbild aus der Geschichte unserer deutschen Ahnen, 1879 – Kuning Hartfest. Über die in Meteoriten entdeckten Tierreste, 1882 – About the Animal Remains Discovered in the Meteorites