In Ochpaniztli, the feast of sweeping, Teteo Innan, the Mother Goddess, Toci, the grandmother, was honored. She led the women curers in mock battle. And accompanied by the guardians of Chicome coatl, the lady Seven Serpent, Teteo Innan went scattering corn meal in the marketplace. At midnight she died. The Nahuatl nobles said: "No one spoke at all, none talked, nor did anyone cough; it was if the earth lay dead." The priests severed her head. One, wearing her skin, ran through the streets accompanied by warriors holding brooms, to the foot of the Coatepec where she met her son, Cinteotl, the maize, the skin of her thigh. Together they returned to the temple of Toci. At dawn, Teteo Innan was covered with eagle down on her head and legs and dressed in her eagle blouse and skirt. Then the warriors assembled and the Speaker, the Tlatoani, seated on an eagle skin, gave then their weapons and insignia. And the older Mexica women said: "These are our beloved sons whom we see here. If in five days, in ten days, the sea, the conflagration are announced, that is war, will they perhaps return? Will they perhaps make their way back? Truly, they will be gone forever." And Toci and the women curers went singing and dancing. And the young women who carried the seed corn came, with feathers pasted on their arms and legs, and sang the song of Chicome coatl. And they scattered corn of all colors on the people. Then chalk and feathers were brought down from the temple of Huitzilopochtli. And the warriors ran to the feathers, and when they seized them, the feathers billowed up and fell down.