Mexicas Esplendor de un Imperio. Xipe Totec, Our Flayed Lord

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This pieces was exhibited in the temporary Exhibition, Mexicas Esplendor de un Imperio. During the corn planting festival, Xipe Totec was impersonated by a priest who dressed in the skin of flayed captive, ritually enacted the death and renewal cycle of the earth. Xipe Totec was the divine embodiment of the life emerging from the dead land and of the new plant sprouting from the seed. (Text taken from Kimbell Museum)

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Size: 3088px × 4952px
Location: History Museum of Monterrey, Temporary Exhibition
Photo credit: © Diana Sanchez / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 2015, archaeology, art, aztec, cultures, de, dead, deity, exhibition, god, historia, july, mexica, mexican, mexico, monterrey, museo, museum, precolumbian, prehispanic, renewal, temporary, totec, xipe