Chocolate Mythology


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Aztec Indian legend held that cacao seeds had been brought from Paradise and

that wisdom and power came from eating the fruit of the cacao tree.

Ancient chronicles report that the Aztecs, believing that the god Quetzalcoatl travelled

to earth on a beam of the Morning Star with a cacao tree from Paradise, took his offering

to the people. They learned from Quetzalcoatl how to roast and grind the cacao seeds,

making a nourishing paste that could be dissolved in water. They added spices and

called this drink "chocolatl," or bitter-water, and believed it brought universal wisdom

and knowledge.

Quetzalcoatl was cast out of paradise for the blasphemous act of giving this sacred

drink to humans.(The gods felt that only they should have access to chocolate.)

Priests often made offerings of cacao seeds to Quetzalcoatl and these other deities

The word "chocolate" is said to derive from the Mayan "xocoatl"; cocoa from the Aztec

"cacahuatl." The Mexican Indian word "chocolate" comes from a combination of the

terms choco ("foam") and atl ("water"); early chocolate was only consumed as a beverage.

Chocolate was consumed by the Gods in Paradise, and the seed of cocoa was given to man

as a special blessing by the God of Mexican mythology. Tonacatecutli, the goddess of food,

and Calchiuhtlucue, the goddess of water, were guardian goddesses of cocoa.

Each year they performed human sacrifices for the goddesses, giving the victim cocoa at his

last meal.

As part of a marriage ritual a mug of the frothy chocolate was shared.

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