Historically, throughout the region, priests paid tribute to the deity by wearing the skin of human sacrifices.
Wow!
It puts the lotion on its skin...
Got one in size 40?
This is coming out now to prepare you for the revelation that the Illuminati still does this with childrens faces and makes red shoes out of the rest of their skin.
Xipe Totec was the god of corn - the flaking, decaying skin was supposed to the represent the shoots of the growing maize coming up through the earth.
The best thing Conquistadors did was wiping out the Aztec culture.
It just isn’t dead enough.