Quetzalcoatl is definitely one of the nicer Mesoamerican deities, so I for one welcome our feathered serpent overlord…
If that’s a ōllamalīztli depiction, they did take it pretty seriously. Though more of a basketball/racquetball hybrid, if it involved a 9 pound solid rubber ball that you sometimes bounced off your body and the game ended in decapitation…
Yeah, the still image looks exactly like the kind of “hairs” you see on a bristle or scale worm (though they don’t completely cover it like this); when it moves, you can see how it’s soft algae strands, however.
