RETURN OF THE FEATHERED SERPENT
The Mayan god of wisdom, Kukulcan, is generally known more widely by the Aztec name Quetzalcoatl, or Feathered Serpent. Quetzalcoatl was a culture hero whose peaceful activities polarized the warlike thrust of opposing forces led by his twin brother Tezcatlipoca. Continually confronted by Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl eventually left his home in the central Mexican town of Tula, and moved south into the Yucatan, where he established the sacred pyramid city of Chichen Itza. In leaving Tula, Quetzalcoatl vowed that he would one day return.

Such a return is, by many, seen to be immanent. Steven McFadden, in his book Ancient Voices, signals the global return of what he calls the rainbow warriors, a self-chosen group of planetary exemplars embodying the values associated with the Feathered Serpent myth. McFadden affirms that: "Quetzalcoatl is said to be the embodiment of the serpent rainbow beam of cosmic intelligence--the electric sperm of the universe fertilizing the womb of the Earth." In his book The Story of Quetzalcoatl, Jim Berenholtz reinforces this affirmation when he states: "Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent, is the heart and essence of ancient America, representing the duality within and around all things in this universe."

In his book, The Return of Pahana , Robert Boissiere equates the return of Feathered Serpent to the return of the Christ:

In my view, part of the return of Pahana, or the Christ, or Quetzalcoatl, in these critical times is the return of an earthly "cycle" that will incorporate the qualities mankind needs most: faith, compassion, and love instead of greed, selfishshness, and illegitimate profit. This will be a cycle that operates on principles that have characterized the great spiritual teachers of all time. Looking back, humans will have only to see the destruction created by the previous cycle to gather their energies to move ahead.

The message of the return is here, now, revealed in the content of everyday life. It is perhaps cloudy at the moment, but still it waits to be urged forward through the presence of a returning archetype that will redirect the efforts that have been consumed in so many wrong choices and have led to such despair.
This is where the Native American revival, the New Age revolution, and the hundredth-monkey syndrome are taking us. This is what the return is all about: the myth becoming reality.