Xipe Totec ias depicted in the Codex Borgia, notice the bloody weapon and the flayed human skin he wears as a suit with the hands hanging down.

In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec ("our lord the flayed one") was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, the west, disease, spring, goldsmiths and the seasons. He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the maize seed losing the outer layer of the seed before germination. Without his skin, he was depicted as a golden god. Image File history File links Xipe_Totec. ... Image File history File links Xipe_Totec. ... Quetzalcoatl in human form, using the symbols of Ehecatl, from the Codex Borgia. ... The Aztec civilization recognized many gods and supernatural creatures. ... Michelangelos Last Judgment - Saint Bartholomew holding the knife of his martyrdom and his flayed skin Flaying is the removal of skin from the body. ... The category life-death-rebirth deity also known as a dying-and-rising god is a convenient means of classifying the many divinities in world mythology who are born, suffer death or an eclipse or other death-like experience, pass a phase in the underworld among the dead, and are... Categories: Stub | Jewellery | Smiths ... Corn redirects here. ... Sunflower seedlings, just three days after germination Germination is the process where growth emerges from a resting stage. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ...

Annually, slaves were selected as sacrifices to Xipe Totec. These slaves were carefully flayed to produce a nearly whole skin which was then worn by the priests during the fertility rituals that followed the sacrifice. Some accounts indicate that a thigh bone from the sacrifice was defleshed and used by the priest to touch spectators in a fertility blessing. Paintings and several clay figures have been found which illustrate the flaying method and the appearance of priests wearing flayed skins. Marcus Aurelius and members of the Imperial family offer sacrifice in gratitude for success against Germanic tribes: contemporary bas-relief, Capitoline Museum, Rome Sacrifice (from a Middle English verb meaning to make sacred, from Old French, from Latin sacrificium : sacer, sacred; sacred + facere, to make) is commonly known as the...

In pop culture

In the Hellraiser comic book series, Xipe Totec inhabits the body of Captain Elliott Spencer, which turns him into the cenobite Pinhead. Hellraiser DVD cover Hellraiser is a series of horror films exploring the themes of sadomasochism and morals under duress. ... The Cenobites are demons who appear in the works of Clive Barker, including the novella The Hellbound Heart and the eight Hellraiser films. ... Pinhead is a fictional character in Clive Barkers Hellraiser universe. ...

In the comic The Invisibles, Xipe Totec is a recurring villain, also known as Orlando. He has the habit of killing people and wearing their flayed faces. Cover to The Invisibles (v2) #1. ...