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Xipe Totec – “Our Flayed Lord”
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Xipe Totec, depicted clad in flayed skin, is the Aztec god of spring and blossoming – attributes that contrast sharply with the horrifying ritual associated with him. Just as the snake was thought to be reborn after shedding its skin, Xipe Totec’s scalelike outer layer represents renewal. In the ancient rite, a man who had been sacrificed was flayed and his skin put on the god’s statue. As with a seed, the outer covering falls off so that the kernel can be free to grow, a promise of fertility symbolizing both death and revival.
Title: Xipe Totec – “Our Flayed Lord”
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Xipe Totec, depicted clad in flayed skin, is the Aztec god of spring and blossoming – attributes that contrast sharply with the horrifying ritual associated with him.
Just as the snake was thought to be reborn after shedding its skin, Xipe Totec’s scalelike outer layer represents renewal.
In the ancient rite, a man who had been sacrificed was flayed and his skin put on the god’s statue.
As with a seed, the outer covering falls off so that the kernel can be free to grow, a promise of fertility symbolizing both death and revival.
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