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...those two were not unsettling enough, later there is the figure of the fertility god Xipe Totec, circa 1500. Known to the Aztecs as "our flayed lord," he wears a pebbly garment that represents flayed human skin with pustules of fat clinging to it. The idea behind this image was actually positive. Priests who personified Xipe Totec in fertility rituals wore the skins of sacrificial victims for several days. Then, as the skins dried and came apart, the priests' healthy bodies emerged, symbolizing the fundamental Aztec notion of life growing out of death. But still...
...entitled "Sed Publica" (Public Thirst). The commentary gives some interesting information about ancient sacrifice rituals and the Aztec's conception of water as life source. But Bravo's provocative title refers to a contemporary socio-economic reality which the commentary ignores. Similarly, the series of female nudes titled "Xipe" are explained solely in reference to the ancient "flayed goddess" of the same name. Yet the headless images of bodies criss-crossed with jagged shadows and leaves bear a resemblence to Man Ray's and other Surrealists' work with their slicing of the female figure. The oddly ahistorical commentary aligns Bravo...
...fortyish hipster-nihilist who attempts to goad the characters into shucking their illusions by confronting them with their impotent squeals. Although the narrator ends his tale with the signature "Freddy Lambert," the key to his identity is,.dropped noisily on pase 371, where he is referred to as Xipe Totec, Our Lord of the Flayed Hide. Xipe Totec is the Mexican god of newly planted seed and of penitential torture. Like the maize seed that loses its husk as it begins to sprout, Xipe Totec gave food to mankind by having himself skinned alive. .In short, Xipe is an Aztec...
Beyond Neurosis. In ways that are neither simple nor altogether clear, Xipe, Freddy and Jesus are spliced into what perhaps is best described as Super-Hippie, an unspecified figment with the potential to lead man beyond conventional standards of good and evil, beyond neurosis, to a new freedom and a new height of truth. Up there, man-made illusions do not exist, and all opposites are fused. Life is death, good is evil, creation is destruction; the only thing that matters is what goes on inside the confines of each isolated skull...
...honor the spring god Xipe, Aztec priests flayed human beings and clad themselves in the tattered hides. This symbolized the new vegetation in which the earth clothes itself...
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