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Hymn of Xipe Totec
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The Hymn of Xipe Totec, also known by the epithet within it, Yoallauana ("the nightly drinker"), is another of the twenty sacred hymns Sahagun recorded in Nahuatl, addressed to Xipe Totec, patron deity of goldsmiths and silversmiths whose spring festival Tlacaxipehualiztli was marked by the flaying of sacrificial victims and the wearing of their skins by priests, a rite understood as an agricultural metaphor for the earth shedding its old skin at planting time.
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Who Performs ItTrained or authorised specialists 1 Solitary or CommunalPerformed by a gathered group 1 Origins
Attributed Author / CompilerAnonymous; recorded by Sahagun and his Nahua informants 1 Use
What It Is Used ForInvocation: calls on a god or a holy name 1 Form
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One of the twenty sacred hymns Sahagun recorded in Nahuatl in the sixteenth century, the Classical Nahuatl period.
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