Editing Xipe Totec (section)

==Etymology==
{{See also|Tezcatlipocas}}

Xipe Totec or Xipetotec<ref name=":0" /> ("Our Lord the [[flaying|Flayed]] One") was also known by various other names, including Tlatlauhca ({{IPA|nah|t͡ɬaˈt͡ɬawka}}), Tlatlauhqui Tezcatlipoca ({{IPA|nah|t͡ɬaˈt͡ɬawki teskat͡ɬiˈpoːka}}) ("Red Smoking Mirror") and Yohuallahuan ({{IPA|nah|jowallawan}}) ("the Night Drinker"),<ref>Fernández 1992, 1996, p.60. Neumann 1976, p.255.</ref> and Yaotzin  ("revered enemy").<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brinton |first=Daniel G. |date=April 17, 2021 |title=XV. Hymn to a Night-God |url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/aztec/rva/rva15.htm}}</ref> The [[Tlaxcaltec]]s and the Huexotzincas worshipped a version of the deity under the name of [[Camaxtli]],<ref>Fernández 1992, 1996, p.60-1.</ref> and the god has been identified with [[Yopi (Zapotec god)|Yopi]], a [[Zapotec civilization|Zapotec]] god represented on [[Mesoamerican chronology|Classic Period]] urns.<ref name="Miller & Taube 1993, 2003, p.188" /> 

Originally the name of the first son of the creative couple [[Ometecuhtli]] and [[Omecihuatl]] is Tlatlauhca or Tlatlauhaqui Tezcatlipoca, "Smoking red mirror."  Of obscure origin, this god is honored by the Tlaxcalans and Huejocinas with the name of Camaxtli, and apparently a deity of Zapotlan, [[Xalisco]], is widely known in almost all of [[Mesoamerica]] with the name of Xipetotec, 'Our Lord Flayed'.  His body is dyed yellow on one side and lined on the other, his face is carved, superficially divided into two parts by a narrow strip that runs from the forehead to the jawbone. His head wears a kind of hood of different colors with tassels that hang down his back. The [[Tlaxcala]] myth that refers to Camaxtle, a god identified as Xipe-Totec himself<ref name="adela">{{cite book|author=Adela Fernández|title=Los Dioses Prehispánicos de México|date=1992|publisher=Editorial Panorama|isbn=968-38-0306-7|language=spanish|pages=60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66}}</ref>

{{quote|[[Camaxtle]] begins a war against the Shires and defeats them. The war lasts until 1 acatl, when Camaxtle is defeated, after this failure he meets one of the women created by Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca, called [[Chimalma]], and with her he conceives five children, one of whom is [[Ce Acatl Topiltzin|Ce Acatl Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl]],  who governs Tula (Another myth says that it is Yayauhqui Tezcatlipoca, the enemy who in his invocation of [[Mixcoatl]] impregnates Chimalma)<ref name="adela"/>}}

It's difficult to discern if Camaxtle is the same Tlatlauhqui Tezcatlipoca-Xipetotec or Yayauhqui [[Tezcatlipoca]] who changes his name to [[Mixcoatl]];  or [[Huitzilopochtli]] himself as identified by some informants and authors. The truth is that he is related to fire and hunting.<ref name="adela"/> After the destruction of the earth by water, came chaos. Everything was desolation. Humanity had died and the heavens were over the Earth. When the gods saw that the heavens had fallen, they resolved to reach the center of the Earth, opening four subterranean paths for this, and to enter these paths to lift them up. To reward such a great action, [[Tonacacihuatl]] and [[Tonacatecuhtli]] made their children the lords of the heavens and the stars, and the path that [[Tezcatlipoca]] and [[Quetzalcoatl]] traveled was marked by the [[Milky Way]]. And this great nebula was also called [[Mixcoatl]] or Iztac-Mixcoatl, 'white cloud snake'<ref>{{cite book|author=Otilia Meza|title=El Mundo Mágico de los Dioses del Anáhuac|date=1981|publisher=Editorial Universo|isbn=968-35-0093-5|language=spanish|page=131}}</ref>

[[Jerónimo de Mendieta]] determines that Iztac-Mixcoatl is the personification of the Milky Way, the inhabitant of Chicomoztoc that the Nahuas call ‘White Cloud Serpent’, since such is the shape of the great nebula in the sky. And [[Ilancueye]] is nothing more than the personification of the Earth.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}