The story of Quetzalcoatl involves two other statues that never saw the sunlight and one that was exiled for years to a warehouse. Statue No. 1: Diving horses and whiskbroom cows.

PHOTO: MERCURY NEWS FILE PHOTOGRAPH The $500,000 statue of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl is viewed by passerby in Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San Jose. [941203 LE 7B 1] ...

The sculpture is of Quetzalcoatl (say que-tzal-coh-what-l), the Aztec god of wind and wisdom, commonly referred to as “the feathered serpent.” This iconic, dragonlike deity hails from Mesoamerican ...

The statue instead was a coiled snake that had an unfortunate likeness to a dog dropping. I’ve talked to redevelopment agency officials who believe the final result was a deliberate insult by ...