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The History of God
FIELD No. 6C56
Visual depiction of Xipe Totec

Hover to play loop & narration. Visual depiction; cultural attribution in the metadata below.

Vol. II · Polytheism

Xipe Totec

Aztec renewal deity

the flayed lord wearing a human skin like a living suit of renewal, his terrible outer layer the image of the earth shedding its skin each spring

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.

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Chalchiuhtlicue

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Igaluk

Native American

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Old Woman Who Never Dies

Native American

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Tepeu

Native American

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First Man

Native American

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Malina

Native American