The Feathered Serpent: A Short Story

Long ago before Earth was even a planet there was just space in the universe. Nothing but dark matter, maybe even stars or other galaxies scattered apart billions of light years. There was one goddess named Coatlicue who was a woman that had created Earth all by herself. One day when Coatlicue went for a walk around the land, she found a ball of hummingbird feathers. She pondered whether she should keep them. After decades of pondering, she finally decided to tuck in the ball of hummingbird feathers in her skirt for safekeeping. A couple days later went by and she forgot all about the feathers. While weighing herself astonishingly she found out that she was pregnant. “How on heavenly earth am I pregnant,” she said. Her fingers clinched to the …show more content…
At, first, Coatlicues gave all the people on earth its gifts of charge. Their lives were easy and they lived without pain and suffering. In addition, the people were to worship and pray every night or consequences would come upon them. After a while, the men and women became greedy. Quetzacoatl the Feathered Serpent normally calm and pleasant slowly changed and his face contorted in an all-consuming anger; his nostrils flaring, his eyes flashing and closing into slits, his mouth quivering and drooling, slurring words that unintentionally came spewing into space like a volcano releasing its pent up emotions into the darkness. Therefore, he decided to wash them all away in a massive flood. Only one couple was not greedy; a husband and wife named Teta and Nena who never took the Earths gifts as a toy. The Feathered Serpent decided to spare these two and gave them instructions to find the tallest tree nearby and to hide in it. Teta and Nena did as they were told and a few moments later Quetzacoatl the Feathered Serpent sent the flood crashing over the people. The men and women turned into fish, and are still fish to this