[[Image:XipeTotec.jpg|left]]'''Xipe Totec''' was the [[Aztec ]] [[god ]] of [[spring]], of new [[plant|vegetation ]] and [[sacrifice]]; also the [[patron ]] god of goldsmiths[[goldsmith]]s. The statues of ''Xipe Totec'' show him wearing a freshly flayed skin; This this god wares wears the skin of human victim as a symbol of the new vegetation. The name means literally "Our Lord who is Flayed".
In his honor, each year in the beginning of spring, human prisoners [[prisoner]]s were sacrificed to him. Priests [[Priest]]s killed victims by arrows[[arrow]]s, removed their hearts [[heart]]s and flayed the bodies; sometimes the victims were alive when they were flayed.
Aztecs adopted ''Xipe Totec'' during the reign of their Emperor [[Axayacatl ]] (1469-811469–81). Teotihuacan[[Teotihuacán]], [[Zapotec]], [[Huaxtec ]] and [[Totonac ]] also had this god for hundreds of years.
== See also ==
*[[Polytheism]]
*[[Mythology]]{{clear}}
== External links ==
*[http://www.pantheon.org/articles/x/xipe_totec.html Xipe Totec by Micha F. Lindemans] Encyclopedia Mythica from Encyclopedia Mythica Online.
*[httphttps://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9077691/Xipe-Totec Xipe-Totec] Encyclopædia Britannica on line. ==References==<references/>
[[Category:ReligionNative American Mythology]]