The ixiptla of Huixtocihuatl, Salt Woman, died during the little feast of the lords, Tecuilhui tontli. "This Huixtocihuatl, so it was said, was thought to be the elder sister of the rain gods, the Tlalocs. And it was thought that the Tlalocs were her brothers. In one thing she angered them, she offended them: that she mocked at her brothers. And then they banished their elder sister to the salt beds." She wore golden bells, coyolli, teucuitla coyolli, on her ankles. "And her shield had water lily leaves and flowers, it was painted with a waterlily leaf and flower design, it was as if painted with a water lily leaf and flower design. It was hung with yellow parrot feather pendants. And the yellow parrot feather pendants were made into tassels like the front of locusts. They were also made of eagle feathers, of eagle down, and of quetzal feathers, and of troupial feathers, and of the yellow belly and breast feathers and the ruddy tail feathers of parrots. The shield was rimmed with a circle of yellow parrot feathers. When she danced, she kept swinging the shield around in a circle; with it she crouched around." When they came to sacrifice the ixiptla, "her head they pulled tightly so that they took it nearly to the ground. And they bore down on her neck with the beak of a swordfish, barbed, serrated, spiny huitztic spiny on either side."