Huitzilopochtli and Tonatiuh preside over Tonatiuhichan, the House of the Sun, where warriors slain in battle and women who died in childbirth accompany the sun across the sky for four years before returning to earth as hummingbirds and butterflies.
Tonatiuhichan, Tlalocan, and Mictlan divide the Aztec dead by manner of death — warriors and sacrificial victims ascend to the House of the Sun, the water-claimed enter Tlaloc's paradise, and all others descend through the nine layers of Mictlan.
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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