Aztec jade mask depicting the god Xipe Totec.

Sacrifices to Xipe Totec were bound to a post and shot full of arrows.

In later myths, the four gods who created the world, Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli and Xipe Totec were referred to respectively as the Black, the White, the Blue and the Red Tezcatlipoca.

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Xipe Totec as 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 and religion, Xipe Totec or Xipetotec (" our lord the flayed one ") was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, disease, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths and the seasons.

The female equivalent of Xipe Totec was the goddess Xilonen-Chicomecoatl.

Xipe Totec flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin.

Xipe Totec was believed by the Aztecs to be the god that invented war.

Xipe Totec was widely worshipped in central Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest, and was known throughout most of Mesoamerica.

The worship of Xipe Totec was common along the Gulf Coast during the Early Postclassic.

Ceramic statue of Xipe Totec from the Gulf coast, now in the Museo de América in Madrid

Xipe Totec is represented wearing a flayed human skin, usually with the flayed skin of the hands falling loose from the wrists.

It is likely that sculptures of Xipe Totec were ritually dressed in the flayed skin of sacrificial victims.

The worshippers of Xipe Totec emerging from the rotting, flayed skin after twenty days symbolised rebirth and the renewal of the seasons, the casting off of the old and the growth of new vegetation.

The deity also had a malevolent side and Xipe Totec was said to afflict mortals with rashes, abscesses and skin and eye infections.

The annual festival of Xipe Totec was celebrated on the spring equinox before the onset of the rainy season, it was known as Tlacaxipehualiztli (" flaying of men in honour of Xipe ") and fell in March at the time of the Conquest.

Annually, slaves or captives were selected as sacrifices to Xipe Totec.

The flayed skins were often taken from sacrificial victims who had their hearts cut out, and some representations of Xipe Totec show a stitched-up wound in the chest.

" Arrow sacrifice " was another method used by the worshippers of Xipe Totec.

Further variations on this myth state that it was only Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca who pulled apart Cipactli, also known as Tlaltecuhtli, and that Xipe Totec and Huitzilopochtli then constructed the world from her body.

Some also relate his name to the deity Xipe Totec.

Over the East presides the Red Tezcatlipoca, Xipe Totec, the god of gold, farming and Spring time.

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