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The third one of the Mexica's pantheon: Xipe-Totec

Xipe-Totec, aka "our Lord, the flayed one" in Nahuatl, is, ironically, the god of agriculture and all the life things; the disease, death and rebirth.

He's the Red Tezcatlipoca and represents the west, the region where the Sun hides and disappears and also the masuline side of the Universe. Owns the life and bears the life and destiny of all the living things such as plants, animals, and, of course, humans so that's the reason he's also the God of the Spring.

He's flayed because, for the Aztecs, his flayed skin was a symbol of the reincarnation and renovation because, as the snake changes its skin, all the new and good things lies inside ourselves and has to come up from the bottom, from the inside that is covered with dying skin that is renovating altough that symbolism was used for the priests in charge of the human sacrifices.

The legend says that he flayed his own skin to feed the humans for the first time since they were created so some of the festivals of agriculture and ceremonies -including the human sacrifices- was dedicated to him in gratitude of his sacrifice.

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Description
Media: Watercolor.

The third one of the Mexica's pantheon: Xipe-Totec

Xipe-Totec, aka "our Lord, the flayed one" in Nahuatl, is, ironically, the god of agriculture and all the life things; the disease, death and rebirth.

He's the Red Tezcatlipoca and represents the west, the region where the Sun hides and disappears and also the masuline side of the Universe. Owns the life and bears the life and destiny of all the living things such as plants, animals, and, of course, humans so that's the reason he's also the God of the Spring.

He's flayed because, for the Aztecs, his flayed skin was a symbol of the reincarnation and renovation because, as the snake changes its skin, all the new and good things lies inside ourselves and has to come up from the bottom, from the inside that is covered with dying skin that is renovating altough that symbolism was used for the priests in charge of the human sacrifices.

The legend says that he flayed his own skin to feed the humans for the first time since they were created so some of the festivals of agriculture and ceremonies -including the human sacrifices- was dedicated to him in gratitude of his sacrifice.

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