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  • Twenty Days in Rotting Flesh: When Aztec Priests Wore Human Skin

    Imagine the weight of another person’s skin against your own. Not draped loosely like cloth, but pressed intimately, wetly, the residual warmth of their final heartbeat seeping through to your flesh. Now imagine wearing it for twenty days as it rots. Eating in it. Sleeping in it. Blessing children in it whilst the tissue liquefies…