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After the dances the participants were ritually scarred by the priests of Tezcatlipoca (the tlatlacanahualtin). A lifesize figure of Huitzilipochtli was made of amaranth dough then painted, dressed and decorated with clothes and gold jewelry that were symbols of the deity. The sculpture was built on a platform and was carried about.
Xilonen, the goddess of maize, changed sex over the course of the growing season, turning into Centeotl, the Maize Lord. [13] Maize in its early stages was slender with long hair and had milky kernels whose shapes reminded the Mexica of breasts, all suggestive of a woman's body, while maize in its later stages is hard, erect, and phallic shaped ...
[22] Immediately after he died a new victim for the next year's ceremony was chosen. Tezcatlipoca was also honoured during the ceremony of the ninth month, when the Miccailhuitontli "Little Feast of the Dead" was celebrated to honour the dead, as well as during the Panquetzaliztli "Raising of Banners" ceremony in the 15th month.
The female equivalent of Xipe Totec was the goddess Xilonen-Chicomecoatl. [7] Xipe Totec connected agricultural renewal with warfare. [8] He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin. He is often depicted as being red beneath the flayed ...
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