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Quetzalcoatl having white skin is a myth created by later Spanish retellings who claim Cortes was mistaken for the god, but Cortes's own letters deny this Claims that Quetzalcoatl was associated with the color white symbolically are misreadings of the Codex Ramirez: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Letters_from_Mexico/4_2JuxPFXkEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover&bsq=%22I%20am%20of%20flesh%20and%20blood%20like%20you%22 https://historycooperative.org/journal/burying-the-white-gods-new-perspectives-on-the-conquest-of-mexico/#more-2435 https://twitter.com/ClickyPenned/status/1342725135019565057 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Myths_of_the_Spanish_Conquest
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