They believed that cacao was a heavenly food gifted to humans by a feathered serpent god, known to the Maya as Kukulkan and to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl.
Acreditavam que o cacau era um alimento celestial dado aos seres humanos por um deus serpente emplumado, a que os maias chamavam Kukulkan e os aztecas Quetzalcoatl.