XIPETOTEC The 'flayed god' of the Aztecs, he was a god of agricultureand vegetation, who skinned himself to provide mankind with food. He was also seenas the god of penitential torture, and sent such illnesses to man assmallpox, plague, scabs and blindness. He, like most of the Aztec gods, had a greatinterest in Mictlan, the underworld.