spirit test 0.11, by godot.112358

spirit test 0.11

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	1.	Our Lord The Flayed One 20:33		buy track
	2.	When The Rain Comes 22:40		buy track

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Xipe Totec, a Mexican god of fertility, usually represented wearing flayed human skin.

Xipe Totec emerging from rotting, flayed skin after twenty days symbolised rebirth and the renewal of the seasons, the casting off of the old and the growth of new vegetation. New vegetation was represented by putting on the new skin of a flayed captive because it symbolised the vegetation the earth puts on when the rain comes. The living god lay concealed underneath the superficial veneer of death, ready to burst forth like a germinating seed. The deity also had a malevolent side as Xipe Totec was said to cause rashes, pimples, inflammations and eye infections.

The flayed skins were believed to have curative properties when touched and mothers took their children to touch such skins in order to relieve their ailments.People wishing to be cured made offerings to him at Yopico.

Xipe Totec connected agricultural renewal with warfare. He flayed himself to give food to humanity, symbolic of the way maize seeds lose their outer layer before germination and of snakes shedding their skin. He is often depicted as being red beneath the flayed skin he wears, likely referencing his own flayed nature.

Various methods of human sacrifice were used to honour this god. The flayed skins were often taken from sacrificial victims who had their hearts cut out, and some representations of Xipe Totec show a stitched-up wound in the chest.

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released December 25, 2023

Composed: godot.112358

Recorded: 20th December 2023

Equipment list:

Instruo Modular Units:

- Saïch quad analogue oscillators

- Harmonàig diatonic harmonic quantiser

- L-ō47 Filter

- Cš-L complex oscillator

- tanh[3] is a three channel waveshaper

- tágh Sample and Hold

Alright Devices Modules

- Chronoblob2 digital delay module

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