Xipe Totec (Flayed Lord)
Xipe Totec was a life-death-rebirth deity as well as the god of disease, the west, agriculture, the seasons, and goldsmiths. Without Totec’s skin he was seen as Golden God. Slaves were annual sacrifices to Xipe Totec. Xipe Totec removed his skin to give food to humanity, symbolic of the maize seed losing its outer layer of the seed before germination.
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Xochipilli (Flower Prince)
- God of Happiness
- Flowers
- Pleasure and Fertiity