Xipe Totec | Photographer: Ines Seibt
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Xipe Totec
An important vegetation deity in the Aztec pantheon was Xipe Totec, "Our Lord the Slain". However, the cult of Xipe Totec existed long before the Aztecs. Most Xipe Totec sculptures show a male figure in the flayed skin of a human sacrifice. Xipe Totec was regarded as the patron saint of goldsmiths, who made rich offerings to him in his temple. The goldsmiths adorned the god's representatives with red spoonbill feathers and golden jewellery. At the time of the Spanish conquest, the festival of the vegetation deity Xipe Totec fell in spring. The symbolism refers to the agricultural renewal during this time. Representing the deity, the priests donned the skin of a maltreated man and then emerged as young men. (M. Gaida, 2003)
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Azteken
Object type
Stone head
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 14 x 15,5 x 16 cm
Material/Technique
Stone
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 3708
Related object(s)
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Objektbezug: IV Ca 3854, Torso einer Steinfigur, Xipe Totec, 1301 - 1521, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
Objektbezug: IV Ca 3854, Torso einer Steinfigur, Xipe Totec, 1301 - 1521, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
is related to : Objektbezug: IV Ca 48183, Fragment einer Steinfigur, Füße, Xipe Totec, Postklassik, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
Objektbezug: IV Ca 48183, Fragment einer Steinfigur, Füße, Xipe Totec, Postklassik, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
Objektbezug: IV Ca 3854, Torso einer Steinfigur, Xipe Totec, 1301 - 1521, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
is related to : Objektbezug: IV Ca 48183, Fragment einer Steinfigur, Füße, Xipe Totec, Postklassik, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
Objektbezug: IV Ca 48183, Fragment einer Steinfigur, Füße, Xipe Totec, Postklassik, Carl Adolf Uhde (1844)
Provenance and sources
when
Postclassical
where
Mexico
who
Azteken
who
Carl Adolf Uhde (1792-02-02 - 1856-11-17) - Collectors
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