Xipe Flayed One – Xipe Totec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xipe_Totec
Xipe Flayed One is a Minion to Malistaire the Undying in Xibalba.
Monstrology Tome Description – Flay on, flaya’!
In Aztec mythology, Xipe Totec – Classical Nahuatl: Xīpe Totēc or Xipetotec (“Our Lord the Flayed One”) was a life-death-rebirth deity, god of agriculture, vegetation, the east, spring, goldsmiths, silversmiths, liberation, deadly warfare and the seasons.
Xipe Totec connected agricultural renewal with warfare. He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin. He is often depicted as being red beneath the flayed skin he wears, likely referencing his own flayed nature. Xipe Totec was believed by the Aztecs to be the god that invented war. His insignia included the pointed cap and rattle staff, which was the war attire for the Mexica emperor. He had a temple called Yopico within the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan. Xipe Totec is associated with pimples, inflammation and eye diseases, and possibly plague. Xipe Totec has a strong relation to diseases such as smallpox, blisters and eye sickness and if someone suffered from these diseases offerings were made to him.
Xipe Flayed One’s Monster Tome description is a direct reference to Play on Playa by Nas
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Xipe Totec as depicted in the Codex Borgia is borrowed from Wikipedia. It is in the public domain.
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