>>24623721 (OP)
The question was supposed to be answered from the context of picrel
>In Aztec culture, after a human sacrifice, the priest would flay the victim's skin, and wear it for a period of 20 days. This ritual was part of the fertility rites dedicated to Xipe Totec, the god of agriculture and renewal. The skin, sometimes adorned with feathers and gold, was worn during ceremonies where mock battles and other rituals were performed.
Also, somehow thought that humans might actually be very close to plants by their basic fundamental nature, which has main agendas of spreading, fertilizing, absorbing sun, rain, and likewise humans, as a more sophisticated form of plants, having the ability to express the celebration of their growth, have created these weird rituals with lots of blood and stuff, so to our ideologized understanding it seems cruel, while for clean primal mind of those folks it was all aa natural, vibrant essential form of expression of joy from being alive, like, ie, birds sing songs when sun comes up, and humans organize red fountains to praise the sun
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