Xipe Totec

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Illustration

Mark Cartwright
by Papageno
published on 05 August 2013
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Xipe Totec, the Mesoamerican god of spring and patron of planting, seeds, and goldsmiths, and particularly worshipped by the Aztecs, as depicted in the Codex Barbonicus. Human sacrifices were made to the god and the skins of the victims worn in imitation of the process of regeneration of seeds when they shed their husks. The god is depicted wearing one of the skins of his victims.

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