The women swept their neighborhood temples, the calpulco, and prepared atole to drink to mark the planting of maize. In each house foods were offered to the maize, Cinteotl, and stalks of maize were brought into the houses. Then at Cinteopan, the place of Cinteotl, at the temple of Chicome coatl, the lady Seven Serpent, young girls brought the seed maize in clusters of seven cobs, called Cinteotl. The young girls' arms and legs were ornamented with red feathers. And the girls taunted any boy who spoke to them. The Mexica said: "Thus the women could torment young men into war; thus they moved them; thus the women could prod them into battle. Indeed we men said ''Bloody, painful are the words of the women; bloody, penetrating are women's words. Indeed we have gone; we have said that we shall not live."