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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Practice
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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Addressed To
Source Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New SpainBernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
Belongs to Tradition
Source Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New SpainBernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
Originates in Language
One of the twenty sacred hymns Sahagun recorded in Nahuatl in the sixteenth century, the Classical Nahuatl period.
Source Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New SpainBernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
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1. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain
Bernardino de Sahagun; translated by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, School of American Research and University of Utah Press, 1950Book 2, Appendix, the twenty sacred hymns, Xipe Totec IcuicView the Source Religions of Mesoamerica, 2nd edition
David Carrasco, Waveland Press, 2013on Xipe Totec and Tlacaxipehualiztli
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