Cihuacoatl commands the Cihuateteo, the fearsome spirits of women who died in childbirth, leading them as they descend at crossroads to steal children and strike the living with seizures and madness.
The Cihuateteo dwell in the western quarter of Tonatiuhichan, receiving the sun at its zenith from the warrior dead and bearing it on a litter of quetzal feathers down to the western horizon each afternoon.
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