Borderline chocolate experience

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "alshainofthenorth"
<alshainofthenorth at y...> wrote:

> Does anyone know if the Aztecs had a deity of chocolate

I'm inclined to think it's Quetzalcoatl. When he was king, no one had
to work for a living, because all good things just grew on their own.
Quetzal feathers grew on trees, turquoise grew on trees, chocolate
grew on trees... but when he departed, he turned all those fine
feather and gem and chocolate trees to worthless mesquite trees ... 

By wonderful co-incidence, a post on another list just hours ago
turned me onto to www.godchecker.com a site which lists lots of gods
including a "Find a God" search.   

I search for God Of CHOCOLATE and
http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/index.php?_results=Y&name=&pantheon=&sex=&Submit.x=19&Submit.y=10&godof=choc&keyw=

and Quetzalcoatl was one of the search results offered.

> and if he/she has a temple where I can present burnt offerings? 

I've never heard of Aztec gods liking burnt offering. Many of them
like human hearts, ripped out alive and still beating and bloody and
RAW, but it is said that Quetzalcoatl didn't want human sacrifices to
him. He liked wet offerings of blood produced by piercing one's own
penis (tongue for females) with a thorn.

> 
> Nirvana was never this close. Today I used the last of a gift 
> certificate (belated birthday present last year) on 85 % and 99 % 
> cocoa content chocolate bars (not an affiliate of the Swiss company 
> that makes it.) I wouldn't be surprised if the mere sight of the 
> stuff scares avay Dementors. Milk chocolate is for children. :-)

Someday I will try that stuff, but I would hate to be left unable to
enjoy the ordinary choccies that give my ignorant palatte so much
pleasure.