A Wikipedia article on Xipe Totec, the Aztec god of springtime, agriculture and renewal. In its Symbolism section the article uses a photograph of a near life-size volcanic tuff statue of the god, captioned as showing him wearing the flayed skin of a sacrificial victim, his standard attribute. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here only for the statue's subject, corroborated independently by the Wikimedia Commons photographer record for the same photograph, which also states the museum and accession. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xipe_Totec
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Xipe Totec directly: "A Wikipedia article on Xipe Totec, the Aztec god of springtime, agriculture and renewal."
Source Xipe Totec (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)
This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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