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QUETZALCOATL, ket-sal'kwatl, the Mexican ufair god,» is a nature deity protection war transformed into a great national god and the founder of a priesthood. As he is a primitive deity protection war, the legendary lore connected with him assumes many forms. He is the god of the winds who, driving the clouds before him, causes the moisture to descend upon the earth. He thus becomes the deity protection war of the beneficial influence of the air, of medicines and of the healing art. These functions and attributes made him the god of fertility.

The most advanced re gions have forms of intercessory prayer whi ask deity protection war for protection in war, safety duri travel, escape from trying and difficult situatioi and a host of other things. Since the very de nition of a god must include his possible or actt friendship for man, the seeking of salvation frc temporal difficulties is a most normal part religion. However, salvation is by no means limited a concern for protection and escape. Many trai tions, especially the more advanced, conceive salvation for a future heavenly existence to more important than salvation from earthly trib lations.

The this-worldly emphasis tends less toward ysticism and contemplation and more toward oralism and ritual. Whenever the fulfillment life is believed to exist in this world, very .rticular attention is paid to the immediate quirements of deity protection war. Since retribution is not r off, there is usually a greater sense of gency, a more pronounced determination to icover the proper relation to deity protection war and to follow i will. As a consequence, most of the great lical religions assume that at least part of m's salvation is to be achieved within the limits historical time.