Ancient CivilizationsMoses & the Feathered Serpent: Did the Hebrew Lawgiver Secretly Inspire a Mexican Myth? Posted on February 2, 2026 by Administrator Moses, the ancient Hebrew Lawgiver, is certainly never associated with Mexico in any traditional texts, either religious or not, in either the Old or New Worlds. So when a Vermont pastor named Ethan Smith proposed in an 1825 book that Moses may have provided the basis for the Mexican legends of Quetzalcóatl, the famous “Feathered Serpent”, it seemed a radical theory to say the least.
