Xipe Totec

Xipe Totec ( "our lord the flayed ") is the god of vegetation of the Aztecs and the same god of spring, the burgeoning seed and seasons.

He also personifies the necessary suffering and struggle in nature. Furthermore, it was God of the West, patron of goldsmiths and the fifteenth day of the month.

Xipe Totec is represented with red body paint and a human skin. In the spring it a festival was celebrated in honor of the Tlacaxipenaliztli, which was associated with human sacrifice. As a symbol of the cycle of life and death in nature they sacrificed a - Xipe Totec the performing - prisoners of war, which you withdrew the skin, with which the sacrificial priest then held.

Presumably the Danza del Volador took place at his appeasement.

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