Dictionary Of God And Godedesses

X6Xaya IccitaMountain spirit. Yakut [central Siberia]. Theowner or master of the mountains.XewiosoThunder god. Ewe. [Benin, West Africa].Depicted as a ram accompanied by an ax, he isalso perceived as a fertility deity whose thunderand lightning are accompanied by rain.Xil Sga’nagwaiMedicine god. Haida Indian [Queen CharlotteIsland, Canada]. Said to appear as a raven.XilonenMinor vegetation goddess. Aztec (classicalMesoamerican) [Mexico]. An aspect of the maizegoddess Chicomecoatl, personifying the youngmaize plant.XIPE TOTEC (our lord the flayed one)ORIGIN Aztec (classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico].Vegetation god.KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP circa AD 750 toAD 1500, but probably much earlier.SYNONYMS Red Tezcatlipoca.CENTER(S) OF CULT Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan.ART REFERENCES stone sculptures, murals andcodex illustrations.LITERARY SOURCES pre-Columbian codices.A major deity of the Mesoamerican pantheons.The red avatara of the sun god TEZCATLIPOCA(see also MIXCOATL-CAMAXTLI). God of springand a symbol of the annual renewal of vegetation.Often represented in ritual by a priest wearing theflayed skin of a human sacrifice, seen to be thenew vegetation of the earth which emerges afterthe rains. The skin was worn for twenty-one days.Xipe Totec is also the tutelary god of preciousmetallurgists, including goldsmiths.XiuhtecuhtliAstral god. Aztec (classical Mesoamerican) [Mexico].The ruler of the first or lowest of the thirteenheavens known at the time of the Spanishconquest, Tlalticpac (on the earth).XochiquetzalGoddess of fertility and childbirth. Aztec (classicalMesoamerican) [Mexico]. The mother of thedemigoddess (unnamed) whose consort was Piltz-350