Women who died in childbirth, mocihuaquetzque, were like the Cihuateteo, Women Goddesses. "And the place where the sun set, it is said, they named Cihuatlampa after them." "And the midwives, the old women, titici ilamatzitzin, assembled to accompany the dead mother. They bore their shields; they went shouting, howling, yelling. It is said they went crying, they gave war cries. And as it became night they bore this little woman to bury her before the images of the Cihuapipiltin, celestial princesses. And when they had borne her, then they buried her, they placed her in the earth." "And of this mocihuaquetzqui, although there was weeping, there was sorrow because she had died in childbirth, when she had really died, it was said she had become a mocihuaquetzqui. Her parents and the husband rejoiced therefore even more, for it was said she went not to the land of the dead; she went there to the heavens, to the house of the sun, Tonatiuh ichan.