The story goes that while Coatlicue was living at Coatepec, she was in the habit of sweeping the place, as an act of devotion. The Nahuatl storytellers said: "And once, when Coatlicue was sweeping, feathers descended upon her, what was like a ball of feathers. Then Coatlicue snatched them up; she placed them at her waist. And when she had swept, then she would have taken the feathers which she had put at her waist. She found nothing. Thereupon by means of them Coatlicue conceived."