Xipe Totec
c. 200 CE – 1521 CEattested
central Mexico
- Mesoamerican
God of spring growth and of goldsmiths, whose priests wore the flayed skin of a sacrifice for twenty days until it loosened: the seed coat splitting, made literal and worn.
Known for
- the flayed skin as a seed coat
- renewal that is not gentle
- patron of goldsmiths
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.