- 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.
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