Thus the Idolater-Witch holds the heretical view that all truly magical images are living, and worthy of contemplation in both beauty and grotesquerie. All serve as potential reservoirs of fascination and the liberation of power, and the most potent among them achieve a liminality incorporating both states of aesthesis. In this way we may understand how a wrathful deity may also be a deity of compassion, and how its hallowed icons may be both glorious and ghastly. Such is the iconography of the Flayed Gods, among whose red company dwells Xipe Totec, Mani and Christ the Lord.