Many ancient American myths surround the origin of the cocoa tree and how cocoa or chocolate came into the world. Cocoa comes from "cacahuatl" and can be combined with Translate "cocoa bean"; Chocolate comes from "xocóatl" and means "bitter water". Both terms are Aztec and come from the Nahuatl language - a language that is still spoken by around 1.5 million people in Central America today.  is spoken.

A myth tells how Quetzalcoatl ("luminous tail feather snake"), a Deity of the Toltecs, Aztecs and Maya, lost his beloved princess in an enemy attack. She was killed because she did not want to reveal a treasure that Quetzalcoatl had entrusted to her to the enemy. Her blood soaked and fertilised the land where she had died. Quetzalcoatl created the cacao tree there, whose fruit was bitter like the suffering his wife had endured out of love, strong like the virtue she had shown in adversity and reddish like the blood she had shed. 

A myth that, even on a linguistic level, impressively describes the originally bitter taste of chocolate, the blood-red colour of the cocoa fruit and the proximity of the Theobrama cacao to the pre-Columbian gods. The myth also tells us about boundless love - beyond death & represented in cocoa. ...