Xipe Totec

Aztec (Mexica) tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains: spring renewal, goldsmiths
Symbols and attributes: Flayed skin

Codex Borbonicus, p. 9, a Mexica calendar book painted around the time of the Spanish conquest.

Key myth

'Our Lord the Flayed One'. In the festival Tlacaxipehualiztli, victims were flayed and the skin worn, which the sources link to the shedding of the seed's husk in spring.

Primary sources

Florentine Codex Book 2

All sources for the Aztec (Mexica) pantheon

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More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Xipe Totec: earth, harvest and fertility, craft, smiths and making. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse