Word: quetzalcoatl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological wonders of Teotihuacan, ate lunch in a flower-walled tent, and marveled at the ancient Temple of Quetzalcoatl...
Thus, from Aztec hearsay, a 16th-century Franciscan friar described the legendary city of Tulsa, capital of Mexico's ancient Toltec empire and once ruled by the bearded emperor Quetzalcoatl...
Mexican archeologists, working carefully with equipment that ranged from trucks to toothbrushes, had found no palaces of jade or emeralds. Already excavated: a great pyramid used for sacrificial rites, the magnificent, though ruined, temple of Quetzalcoatl; a double T-shaped "basketball" court used in ancient ceremonial ball games; two eight-ton monolithic statues, among the largest ever found in Mexico. As yet unexcavated, but measured and probed, were several large palaces, some containing as many as 30 rooms...
...Quetzalcoatl Vindicated. The finding of ancient Tula is a feather in the pith helmets of two Mexican archeologists who followed their hunch it was there in the face of learned opposition. Alfonso Caso, head of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, rejected the theory that the ancient Toltec capital had already been rediscovered in the famed ruins (also of Toltec workmanship) at Teotihuacan. So did a young, Cambridge-educated archeologist named Jorge Acosta, who had taken up digging after touring Europe as a champion tennis player. The Cardenas government chipped in 3,000 pesos...
...their civilized graces from the gifted Toltecs they had swallowed up 400 years before Cortez arrived. It proved that wandering Toltecs had inspired some of the most magnificent feats of Mayan architecture. Not only boosted were the reputations of Archeologists Caso and Acosta, but that of the bearded god Quetzalcoatl as well. For it proved that the people over whom he ruled deserved their reputation as the most civilized race that ever inhabited the sunbaked valley of Mexico...