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CHAPTER V

  • Area of Worship: Plateau of Anahuac, Zapotecs, Yopis.
  • Minor Names: Tlaltecutli = “Lord of the Earth.” Anauatl yteuc = “Lord of the Seaboard.” Tlatauhqui Tezcatlipocâ = “The Red Tezcatlipocâ.” Itztapaltotec = “Our Lord of the Flat Stone.” Youallauan = “Night Drinker.”
  • Symbol: In Codex Borgia a quail with its head torn off seems symbolical of this god.
  • Calendar Place: Lord of the fifteenth day, quauhtli, and of the fourteenth week, ce itzcuintli; with the Fire-god, lord of the twentieth tonalamatl division, ce tochtli.
  • Festival: Tlacaxipeuliztli.
  • Compass Direction: West.
(From Codex Borgia, sheet 49.)

ASPECT AND INSIGNIA

Codex Vaticanus B.—Sheet 92: Xipe is depicted in this codex as clothed in the flayed skin of the sacrificed human victim, which, after the

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