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A teixiptla is a deity embodiment used within Aztec ritual practice. Either a person or sculpture, teixiptlas were fashioned to represent deities and in some cases represent deceased ancestors who were venerated as deities.[1] It was an Aztec belief that through ritual costuming among other processes, the teixiptla assumes the life force/universal power (called teotl) of a deity and becomes their embodiment.[2] These ritual costumes included the flayed skin of sacrificial victims and/or deity regalia which included headdresses and clothing among other accouterments.[3] Teixiptlas were often the ritual centerpiece of Aztec festivals and were present throughout Aztec life in urban centers, countryside, etc.[1]
- ^ a b Townsend, Richard Fraser (1979). State and Cosmos in the Art of Tenochtitlan. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks. pp. 1–78.
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:1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Laack, Isabel (2019). Aztec Religion and Art of Writing : Investigating Embodied Meaning, Indigenous Semiotics, and the Nahua Sense of Reality. Leiden, Boston: Leiden, Boston : BRILL. pp. 197–202. ISBN 90-04-39201-7.