# Zero at the bone *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Aug 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Charles Dye *03 Aug 1998, 17:03* So saith Prion: > [bobbit] The long feathers were used in > ceremonies by the Mayans and Aztecs, who believed the quetzal was > sacred, and associated it with Quetzalcoatl, the plumed serpent god. Thereby neatly tying in with the general naming convention for augurs, of course. raster at highfiber.com ---