Editing Xipe Totec (section)

==Attributes==
[[File:Xipetotec Codex Borgia.jpg|thumb|Xipe Totec as depicted in the Codex Borgia.]]
Xipe Totec appears in codices with his right hand upraised and his left hand extending towards the front.<ref>Marshall Saville, 1929, p.155.</ref> Xipe Totec is represented wearing flayed human skin, usually with the flayed skin of the hands falling loose from the wrists.<ref name="Fernandezp60Moctp422">Fernández 1992, 1996, p.60. Matos Moctezuma & Solis Olguín 2002, p.422.</ref>  His hands are bent in a position that appears to possibly hold a ceremonial object.<ref name="Marshall H. Saville 1929, p.156">Marshall H. Saville 1929, p.156.</ref>  His body is often painted yellow on one side and tan on the other.<ref name="Fernandezp60Moctp422" /> His mouth, lips, neck, hands and legs are sometimes painted red.  In some cases, some parts of the human skin covering is painted yellowish-gray. The eyes are not visible, the mouth is open and the ears are perforated.<ref name="Marshall H. Saville 1929, p.156" /> He frequently had vertical stripes running down from his forehead to his chin, running across the eyes.<ref name="Miller & Taube 1993, 2003, p.188" /> He was sometimes depicted with a yellow shield and carrying a container filled with seeds.<ref>Matos Moctezuma & Solis Olguín 2002, p.468.</ref> One Xipe Totec sculpture was carved from volcanic rock, and portrays a man standing on a small pedestal. The chest has an incision, made in order to extract the heart of the victim before flaying.  It is likely that sculptures of Xipe Totec were ritually dressed in the flayed skin of sacrificial victims and wore sandals.<ref>Matos Moctezuma & Solis Olguín 2002, p.171.</ref><ref>Marshall H. Saville 1929, p.155.</ref> In most of Xipe Totec sculptures, artists always make emphasis in his sacrificial and renewal nature by portraying the different layers of skin.