Look up: cihuateteo


  1. Cihuateteo
    (from the article `pre-Columbian civilizations`) ...on the battlefield or on the sacrificial stone, and the merchants who were killed while traveling in faraway places; and the women who died while ...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/85

  2. Cihuateteo
    In Aztec mythology, the Cihuateteo (Cihuātēteoh "Divine Women", singular Cihuātēotl) were the spirits of human women who died in childbirth (mociuaquetzque.). Childbirth was considered a form of battle, and its victims were honored as fallen warriors. Their physical remains were thought to stre...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cihuateteo

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