Xipe Totec: Our lord the Flayed

Life and Death

Thinly veiled by a Jade funerary mask

After death the soul of the Aztec went to one of three places: the sun, Mictlan, or Tlalocan. Souls of fallen warriors and women that died in childbirth would transform into hummingbirds that followed the sun on its journey through the sky. Souls of people who died from less glorious causes would go to Mictlan.

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