This action was performed in the Road-Sweeping Festival in honour of Toci (“TOH-see”), the divine grandmother, after which a mask would be made for her son, Young Lord Maize Cob. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this action done to the ixiptla (“ee-SHEEP-t’lah”), or divine incarnation, of Teteo Innan. This action was also associated with the maize deity Xipe Totec (“SHEE-pay TOH-teck”).
ANSWER: flaying [or skinning; prompt on human sacrifice or torture or equivalents] (A male priest would wear Teteo Innan’s flayed skin to complete transformation into the ixiptla of Toci, while a portion of the thigh skin was cut out to form Young Lord Maize Cob’s mask.)
[10e] Alongside Toci, the flayed god Xipe Totec (“SHEE-pay TOH-teck”) was worshipped as one of the four Tezcatlipocas in these people’s religion of pre-contact Mexico.
ANSWER: Aztec [accept Mexihca (“may-SHEE-kah”) or Nahua]
[10m] This ethnographic work compiled by Bernardo de Sahagún serves as a major source on religious practice in Tenochtitlan. It is usually named for the city whose Laurentian library it is stored in.
ANSWER: Florentine Codex [or Códice Florentino; or General History of the Things of New Spain; or Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España; prompt on General History or Historia General]
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