Xipe-Topec

Xipe-Totec is an Aztec deity known as the “flayed one.” He personifies spring as well as life and death. He is symbolized wearing freshly flayed human skin. He would be honored by taking out the hearts of sacrifices, flaying them, and dying them yellow to wear. Other sacrifices would be rained on by sacred arrows. Xipe-Totec is considered one of the gentler gods.

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Maberry, Jonathan. Vampire Universe: The Dark World of Supernatural Beings That Haunt Us, Hunt Us, and Hunger for Us. United States, Kensington Publishing Corporation, 2006.