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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;reader, post: 4340872, member: 255&quot;]Why did the Aztecs wear human skin?</p><p><br /></p><p>As <b>a symbol of the new vegetation</b>, Xipe Totec wore the skin of a human victim—the “new skin” that covered the Earth in the spring. ... During Tlacaxipehualiztli (“Flaying of Men”), the second ritual month of the Aztec year, the priests killed human victims by removing their hearts.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gotta love those Aztecs![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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