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QUETZALCOATL, ket-sal'kwatl, the Mexican ufair god,» is a nature deity transformed into a great national god and the founder of a priesthood. As he is a primitive deity, the legendary lore connected with him assumes many forms. He is the god of the winds who, driving the clouds before him, causes the moisture to descend upon the earth. He thus becomes the deity of the beneficial influence of the air, of medicines and of the healing art. These functions and attributes made him the god of fertility.Since this sun-god was the islanders' favorite deity, tradition tells that from the rose (Gr. rhodos), one of his emblems, was derived the island's name. By 700 B.C., the Rhodians were conducting a lively commerce with their many colonists throughout the Mediterranean Basin. Persia intermittently controlled Rhodes from about 540 B.C. to 470 B.C., when the Rhodians joined Athens' Delian Confederacy.
The this-worldly emphasis tends less toward ysticism and contemplation and more toward oralism and ritual. Whenever the fulfillment life is believed to exist in this world, very .rticular attention is paid to the immediate quirements of deity. Since retribution is not r off, there is usually a greater sense of gency, a more pronounced determination to icover the proper relation to deity and to follow i will. As a consequence, most of the great lical religions assume that at least part of m's salvation is to be achieved within the limits historical time.
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