Xipe Totec is a god of agricultural renewal. Worshipped with human sacrifice, his priests wore the victims’ skins as ceremonial attire. Statues and carvings of Xipe Totec have turned up at ...

In a bloody ritual, priests flayed victims and wore their skins as a tribute to the god of renewal and rebirth. On the left, a skull-like stone carving depicting the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic ...

Mexican archaeologists have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse. Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History said the ...

MEXICO CITY — Mexican artist Hector Velazquez leaned in close and picked dust from one of his sculptures in a dim alcove of his exposition space. "They attract flies," he said in a disheartened voice.

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (NIAH) has discovered the first temple dedicated to Xipe Totec, an Aztec deity whose named roughly equates to "The Flayed Lord." For 40 days ...

was one of the most important gods in pre-Hispanic cultures. His influence on fertility, agricultural cycles, and war, was recognized by numerous cultures throughout the Mexican territory. However, a ...

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said the find was made during recent excavations of Popoloca Indian ruins in the central state of Puebla. The institute said experts found two ...

Evidence indicates that priests ritually sacrificed their victims on one of the temple’s two circular altars, then flayed them on the other and draped themselves in their skin. Archaeologists in ...

Among the most significant of the various gods worshipped by the indigenous peoples of pre-Hispanic Mexico was Xipe Tótec ("Our Lord the Flayed One")—a symbol of fertility, agricultural regeneration ...

First, they were forced to fight to the death. Their bodies were skinned. Then, the priests of the ‘Flayed Lord’ wore these human remains for the glory of their god. Mexico’s National Institute of ...