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.
Ritenevano che il cacao fosse un alimento divino, donato agli uomini da un dio serpente piumato, conosciuto fra i Maya come Kukulkan e fra gli Aztechi come Quetzalcoatl.