"GOD OF THE FLAYED."
A MEXICAN DISCOVERY. IDOL OF XIPE IN CACHE. A cache of rare idols, pottery and other objects has been found under a series of -floor levels in .the earth near the Toltec City of San Juan Teotihuacan, twenty-five miles north-east of Mexico City. The most curious object is a hollow clay idol of Xipe, of half human size. Xipe, "the god of the flayed," is always represented as wearing the skin of a human victim. The idol is a hollow pottery shell skilfully made to represent a wrinkled skin, as it was the custom of his worshippers to flay the skins from the bodies of their captives and wear them for a month. The site is in the village of < Mazapa, a third of a mile from the Pyramid of the Sun of Teotihuacan. The excavation was made by Oswald Line, of the Royal Ethnological Museum of Stockholm, Sweden, by permission of the Mexican Government.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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159"GOD OF THE FLAYED." Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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