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	MESOAMERICAN AFTERWORLDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cihuateteo (singular: cihuateotl) were female spirits of mothers who had died giving birth.
		In some accounts, the cihuateteo were believed to inhabit the highest heaven, Omeyocan, where they helped carry the setting sun to the west.
		These are Aztec images of the cihuateteo, with wrathful expressions in their deathly faces and striking arms.
	members.aol.com /cabrakan/death.htm (914 words)

	Mimetic rituals of child sacrifice in the Hopi Kachina cult. - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical
		She was the patron goddess of the cihuateteo (or ciuapipilti), women who had died in the act of childbirth.
		After death, the cihuateteo, symbolized in the horrific form of their goddess, became ferocious phantoms of destruction and death, focusing particularly on children.
		So strong was this belief in the power of the cihuateteo that the body of a woman who had died in child-birth had to be guarded night and day before burial lest a thief steal one of her bones to make magic that would increase his own martial valor (Caso 1958, 60; Pasztory 1983, 220).
	goliath.ecnext.com /coms2/summary_0199-2295658_ITM (6947 words)

	Cihuacoatl LaLLorona.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cihuacoatl was an ancient Aztec Goddess, patron of the cihuateteo, sanctified women who died in child-birth.
		On days of the calendar dedicated to the cihuateteo she descended to the earth wailing and moaning in the night air.
		She appeared at the crossroads and was considered ill omen that could prove fatal to women and young children.
	home.earthlink.net /~larrhue/Cihuacoatl_LaLLorona.html (249 words)

	Mesoweb Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cihuateteo wears some of the elements (necklace made of human hands and abundant death symbolism) usually associated with Coatlicue.
		Notice, however, the absence of the serpent skirt, a trait exclusive of Coatlicue.
		Cihuateteo wears a headband made of skulls, and she is shown kneeling on a skull altar, as befits the keeper of the Place of the Dead.
	www.mesoweb.com /features/jpl/92.html (58 words)

	Pacaritambo - Machu Picchu Magazine and Bookstore, Deity of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This issue of dying during childbirth is well documented by both Sahagun and Duran and was a significant event for the Mexica..
		Cihuateteo [image below] wears some of the elements (necklace made of human hands and abundant death symbolism) usually associated with Coatlicue.
		Sculpture of kneeling Cihuateteo, Mexica (Aztec), Late Post-Classic (1325-1521 A.D.), Calixtlahuaca, State of Mexico, Volcanic tuff, 112 x 53 cm, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.
	www.pacaritambo.com /deity.html (165 words)

	Cihuacoatl - WiccanWeb.ca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Childbirth was sometimes compared to warfare and the women who died in childbirth were honored as fallen warriors.
		Their spirits, the Cihuateteo, were depicted with skeletal faces like Cihuacoatl.
		Like her, the Cihuateteo are thought to haunt crossroads at night to steal children.
	www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php?title=Cihuacoatl&redirect=no (246 words)

	Peru & Mexico-Archaelogical Finds & Women's Roles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There's Xochiquetzal, a Mexican goddess of love and beauty, modeled in clay with an elaborate headdress and flowers in both hands.
		Cihuateteo lurked at crossroads by night and caused illness.
		The Moche people of northern Peru, whose tombs are among the most recently excavated, had an ugly goddess of their own, a moon goddess with a face like a skull who presided over the capture and sacrifice of human prisoners.
	www.wunrn.com /news/07_03_06/070906_peru_mexico.htm (405 words)

	Enchanted Doorway--Vampires in Myth: Mexico
		Mostly the reports I have seen tend to show its victims are livestock, but some people have said they believe that they have been attacked also.
		Cihuateteo: The Cihuateteo ('right honorable mother') is either a stillborn baby or a mother who died in childbirth which attacks and paralyses babies.
		It flies and is chalked white on its hands, arms and face.
	enchanteddoorway.tripod.com /vamp/mexico.html (415 words)

	Aztec Calendar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Cihuateteo or Cihuapipiltin, the divine or noble women, the goddesses of the crossroads.
		They can be dangerous goddesses, spirits of women who died in childbirth, and now live on, escorting the setting sun.
		At these days, after sunset the Cihuapipiltin go to the crossroads to lead men into misfortune.
	www.azteccalendar.com /god/Cihuateteo.html (77 words)

	Deity Figure (Cihuateotl) [Mexico; Aztec] (00.5.30) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They resided in the west known as Cihuatlampa, or region of the women, and accompanied the sun daily from its zenith at midday to dusk on the western horizon.
		The Cihuateteo were the female counterparts of warriors who had perished on the battlefield and who were thought to escort the sun through the underworld to its rise each morning.
		On five specific days of the Aztec ritual calendar these malevolent female spirits were believed to descend to the earth and haunt crossroads hoping to snatch the young children they were never privileged to have.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/azss/hod_00.5.30.htm (310 words)

	Cihuateteo - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Las Cihuateteo o Cihuapipiltin en la mitología azteca eran cinco espíritus, hermanas de los Macuiltonaleque (dioses de los excesos), que eran almas de mujeres nobles muertas al dar a luz (mociuaquetzque) pero al contrario que las Civatateo eran honradas como hombres muertos en batalla.
		Las Cihuateteo eran pálidos esqueletos de blancas caras con garras de águila en vez de manos y vestidos de encaje decorados con tibias cruzadas.
		Y por esto les hacían fiesta y en esta fiesta ofrecían en su templo, o en las encrucijadas de caminos, pan hecho de diversas figuras.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cihuateteo (383 words)

	Temporary Exhibition
		Like other nocturnal, terrestrial, and underworld deities (such as Mictecacíhuatl, Coatlicue, las cihuateteo, Itzpapálotl and the other tzitzimime), ferocious claws take the place of hands and, occasionally, feet.
		Nevertheless, one cannot discard the idea that they may have once had them and that, because they were made of perishable material, they have disappeared with the passage of time.
		The most evident case is the curly fl hair that characterizes not only Mictlantecuhtli, but also the cihuateteo, the tzitzimime and other nocturnal deities.
	archaeology.la.asu.edu /tm/pages2/lamorfologia.html (970 words)

	History of the Vampire
		He also dwelled in caves, where he would attack people, his victims, for their blood as well.
		Among the Aztec people, the Cihuateteo was a vampire as well.
		This demi god and vampiric woman was often depicted like her kin in other parts of the world killing and surviving on the blood of infants.
	www.bigmamasrecipes.com /historyofvampire (803 words)

	Mezoamerican Archaeology: Religion and the Aztec State
		But, whereas men who died in warfare accompanied the sun during its morning rise to the zenith, women who died in childbirth accompanied the sun during its afternoon descent (Sahagún 1950-82 Bk.6, Ch.29).
		slide: statue of a cihuateteo: Moreover, women who died in childbirth periodically returned to earth as violent spirits (the cihuateteo) who haunted crossroads at night, possessed and paralyzed adults, and stole children.
		The negative image of the disruptive and predatory cihuateteo, carved in stone and set by lonely crossroads, served to heighten the nobility of their male counterparts, the eagle warriors.
	www.indiana.edu /~arch/saa/matrix/ma/ma_mod19.html (3063 words)

	Elevation of women - Entertainment - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Moreover, discovery of still another priestess's tomb the next year indicates that these female priests came from a powerful family of women who energetically ruled alongside men in San Jose de Moro.
		Mexico also had its share of early women's tombs, with the richly filled graves in the state of Veracruz packed with splendid terra-cotta "Cihuateteo" figures.
		The Cihuateteo, according to the museum, guided the dead to the afterworld.
	www.washtimes.com /entertainment/20060331-090632-5988r.htm (341 words)

	Exposición Temporal La Morfologia
		Al igual que en otras deidades nocturnas, terrestres y del inframundo (como Mictecacíhuatl, Coatlicue, las cihuateteo, Itzpapálotl y las demás tzitzimime), feroces garras sustituyen las manos y, en ocasiones, los pies.
		Sin embargo, no se puede descartar la idea de que alguna vez contaran con ellos y que, por ser elaborados con materiales perecederos, éstos hayan desaparecido con el paso del tiempo.
		El caso más evidente es el del cabello crespo y negro que caracteriza no sólo a Mictlantecuhtli, sino a las cihuateteo, las tzitzimime y otras deidades nocturnas.
	archaeology.la.asu.edu /tm/pages/lamorfologia.html (956 words)

	Amazon.com: My Family, Mi Familia: Video: Jimmy Smits,Edward James Olmos,Esai Morales,Eduardo López Rojas,Elpidia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They became Cihuateteo, the spirits who helped the sun to set.
		Without Cihuateteo, the sun would not be able to rest.
		Paco: Everyone thought it odd that Toni was going to be a nun, but then, she always was the bossy type, and that's the type that usually becomes a nun.
	www.amazon.com /My-Family-Familia-Jimmy-Smits/dp/fun-facts/6303667821 (445 words)

	RPGnet: Review of The Everlasting: Book of the Unliving
		There are twelve different bloodlines given detailed descriptions in the main book, though there are other bloodlines.
		The bloodlines presented are the Bathora, Cihuateteo, Sakinis, Dracul, Kingu, Lamiae, Lilim, Nosferatu, Obayifo, Penanggalans, Tantalusi, and Xiang Shi.
		The Cihuateteo are descended of an ancient Aztec Decapitator god.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/9/9647.phtml (4394 words)

	THE RENEWING SUN
		The Sun Lord descends into the horizon in this relief of Tonatiuh diving from the sky.
		The Aztecs believed that the sun was raised in the morning by the eagle spirits of warriors who had died in battle, then to be carried down by the cihuateteo, the female spirits of women who had died giving birth.
		The descent forebode the sun's journey into the earth and through the Aztec underworld, Mictlan.
	members.aol.com /maroic/sun.htm (659 words)

	Lords of the Night - Tzitzimime
		Unlike Nepharites, the Tzitzimime have no higher order to bow before, nor a role to play within the Illusion or Inferno, other than sheer unbridled terror.
		In times when man was first cast from the Illusion the tradition began of sacrifice of hearts and blood to the sun for the sheer belief that at night the sun would be pulled into the underworld by the female Cihuateteo, those servants of the ravenous Tzitzimime.
		And there, the Tzitzimime would do battle with the sun, and only their sacrifice nourished the return.
	www.symbolique.net /kult/liber_lor_tzitzimime.html (549 words)

	Images from the National Museum of Anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Left: a fertility goddess, holding her breasts as a sign of nourishment (?)
		Center: either Mictecacíhuatl, the goddess of death, or a cihuateteo, a woman who died in childbirth
		Continue to page 6 for examples of art of the Mexica culture.
	www.bluffton.edu /~Sullivanm/mexico/mexicocity/museo/museo5.html (255 words)

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		I am the leader of the Cihuateteo, the spirits of women who died in childbirth.
		Cihuateteo the Ghost Gremble (508 days and 12 hours old)
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	Tijuana Gringo
		Be she Viking valkerie, or Aztec cihuateteo, goddess guardian of the dead, choosing me like a warrior poet, to lie down on the stone of sacrifice, and...?
		The strict manners about renting, the fearful glances from motel employees, the phone call to that room.
		Your cihuateteo, your valkerie, is a sangron – Son Of a Bitch.
	www.xmission.com /~gastown/xanadu/tjgnv01.htm (2375 words)

	RPGnet: Review of Book of the Unliving
		I was hoping to see a bit more diversity within the vampire ranks, I have to say.
		Though I do very much like their treatment therein, some of the subraces such as the Cihuateteo (brujah) or Dracul felt like (well-done) re-hashes.
		In a work in which I found so many excellent subject treatments, perhaps I just expected something a bit more noveau.
	www.rpg.net /reviews/archive/12/12300.phtml (2567 words)

	Aztecs for Age of Mythology - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Special Attack : Jumps on enemies causing extra damage.
		Cihuateteo (SEE- WA- TEH-TEH- OH)-Cihuateteo were women who died while giving birth.
		During ill-fated days the came down to earth.
	www.freewebs.com /aomaztec/aztecmythunits.htm (550 words)

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