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Quetzalcoatl and Viracocha
Mesoamerican and Andean traditions describe culture-bringing deities, the feathered serpent Quetzalcoatl and the creator god Viracocha, sometimes depicted as pale-skinned. Some 20th-century writers read these as memories of alien or Atlantean visitors; most scholars trace the specific pale-skin detail to a Spanish colonial-era retelling rather than an older indigenous one.